Jeanne Z.

I started studying French in the seventh grade and loved it, leading to a lifetime of studying foreign languages. I was a French major at Bucknell University and also began to study Spanish there. I went on to get a Master’s and PhD in Romance Linguistics at the University of Michigan, also learning Catalan and a reading knowledge of Portuguese. In order to really learn these languages, I spent one summer living with a family in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, a semester living with a F…