Richard Slipp’s Story
I first sought treatment for a debilitating case of monolingualism in second-year university.
The decision was strategic: as an English major looking to go on to grad studies, I wanted to quickly acquire reading knowledge in a foreign language.  I sensed my school French was a bit too rusty to be revived, and with a superficial familiarity with some German literature and a strange attraction to the sound of the language – German got the nod. Read more