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About me edit
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.
Hobbies edit
- Reading - I love to read in German, English, Swedish, French.
- Cycling - my cycle is my means of transport, with the recumbant I cycle to work but used it for tours to England and to Sweden.
- travelling - I was in Sweden and Finland often. But I love rambling in Switzerland too, climbing peaks in the Alps, rambling on the pathes of the Walser.
- Railways
- dancing - I practiced folk dance in a Finnish group.
- Friends
- Swiss German - I am member of the club who does research and publications on my mothertongue
- Webpages - I wrote webpages for my clubs, mainly in PHP, until 2012. Since 2010 I am in charge of some webpages in Joomla!.
Biographie edit
I was born in 1954.
How I got started on Wikipedia edit
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.