Yesterday, one of the nurses at the ALF came over to me and asked if Steve speaks French. It seems that he recently had a day where he sounded like he was and was kissing the ladies' hands. None of the employees speak French, but she said he sounded fluent. This gave me a good laugh--Steve always had a silly streak and even after dx, when in a particularly good mood, he would imitate French, Yiddish, or Chinese (interesting combo, huh)? Now that he's late stage 6, his conversations are mostly gibberish mixed with a smattering of English. Somehow, he retains the ability to tell jokes in gibberish (I can tell from the timing) or do this language thing. Strange, he always had a "math brain" -- was a CPA. Foreign languages were never his forte and when we traveled outside the U. S., our standard plan was that I did the talking. I would never have guessed that he could retain this "talent" so far into the disease.