DFWMike is a retired mainframe programmer with an interest in German, Russian, and translating German into English. Upon retiring in 2000, he went back to school and got his BA in German and did grad study in German and linguistics. Learned Russian in the US Army in the 1970s and finally got the hang of German while serving in Berlin for two years. Interested in the Vienna Project after spending a delightful month there with a student group in 2003.