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User:Gsandi

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This user lives in Vancouver, Canada.
huEnnek a szerkesztőnek magyar az anyanyelve.
en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
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ja-1この利用者は初級日本語ができます。


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About myself

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I am a multilingual member of the Wikipedia community. I love anything connected with multilingual applications - I have even created my own (Romance) conlang (artificial language), and translated three chapters of Le Petit Prince into it! (Yes, it's on my web site: [1])

My special interests are:

By background, I am Hungarian by birth and Canadian by adoption. I started my life in Budapest and have now moved to Vancouver, B.C., the top city in the world for quality of life according to some surveys. This is not the first time I have lived here, as I did my graduate studies at UBC. I am now retired, after working for decades for a UN organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

I am more likely to do much of my work in the English wiki, because I feel more comfortable writing in formal (scholarly or journalistic) style in English than in my native Hungarian. I am, however, an editor by trade (among other things), and a notorious "pedant" - I dislike inaccuracies, spelling and grammatical mistakes, all of which I am likely to correct in any language version of the wikipedia, my competence in the given language permitting. The possibility of correcting an Encyclopedia is one of the pleasures of the wikipedia, after all.

I am enough of a patriot to think that creating/expanding on articles of Hungarian interest in the English wikipedia will be of benefit to my native country's reputation in the world. And, as I have just discovered, I can do the same for articles of Canadian interest in the Hungarian wiki!

List of countries I have been to

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(brief visits to airports or railway stations do not count):

Africa

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Benin Central African Republic Ghana Sierra Leone


The Americas

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Argentina Brazil Canada Colombia Mexico Peru United States

Asia

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China (including Hong Kong and Macau) India Japan Philippines Singapore South Korea Thailand

Australia and the Pacific

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Australia New Zealand

Europe

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Andorra Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Hungary Ireland Italy Netherlands Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Norway Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom (including Jersey, not strictly speaking part of the UK) Vatican City