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User:Mccalpin

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William J. 'Bill' McCalpin is a consultant in the electronic document and content management industries. He has lived in both the United States and Italy, and currently lives in Richardson, Texas.

He has two degrees in Political Philosophy from the University of Dallas, and speaks a number of languages (probably badly) besides English: Italian, Spanish, and German, as well as reads Latin, French and Portuguese, and to a lesser extent, Catalan and Romanian. He also has some practical or academic experience with Old English, Irish Gaelic, Russian, and Greek.

He has developed a website for the acquisition of a second language in a linguistic family at Second-Language.com .

He is currently working on a website to review, confirm, or debunk local political rumors at Rumorcheck.org

Languages I speak or read:
...This user would like to know all existing languages.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
it-3Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello avanzato di italiano.
es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
la-2Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.
de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
fr-1Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
ca-1Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell bàsic de català.
pt-1Este usuário/utilizador pode contribuir com um nível básico de português.
ro-1Acest utilizator poate contribui în română la un nivel de bază.

I would add Romanesco-2 (the traditional language of Rome), but, sadly, it has no ISO code ;-(

Languages to date

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To date, I have made or edited entries on Wikipedia in English, Italian, and Catalan....and Romanian, I think?