My father’s mother. A first generation American from Hungary. She was the coolest. Don’t ask me what the seven languages were, though I believe Swahili was one of them. Hoping it turns up in these glorious masses of things kept.
Her father was a successful translator, and his eldest daughter was his protege.
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My father’s mother. A first generation American from Hungary. She was the coolest. Don’t ask me what the seven languages were, though I believe Swahili was one of them. Hoping it turns up in these glorious masses of things kept.
Her father was a successful translator, and his eldest daughter was his protege.
And here she’s a wife and mother of three!