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My first name is Thomas and I live in Zurich in Switzerland. I studied electrical engineering at the ETH, the Swiss technical University.
At Gramar School (Sekundarschule) I learnt my first French, at college (Gymnasium) English and Italian. The subject Swedish was started at Zurich University when I did not find a course for the Finnish language. My Italian is rather rusty, but I can communicate. My Finnish is getting more use.
My mothertongue is Swiss German. This language is, as a matter of fact, just spoken; there is no offical writing standard. So if I write I write German, with some words special to Switzerland, Helvetism.
I was born in 1954.
Looking for the calorific value of fuel in Google I found Wikipedia about 2002. I love the links to similar articles in other languages; thus I can click on the link to Finnish before discussing a matter with my friends in Tampere.