When I first met Bogdan back in 2002, we discovered that we really did not have any common language. He knew Polish of course, and I did not know Polish.
During the coming years, Bogdan learnt some English words and I learnt some Polish words - still not many. His son helped him write the English emails. Those who met him during the last ten years can probably testify to his later level of knowledge of the English language.
Bogdan also started to learn Hebrew words, and improved his Hebrew vocabulary when he visited us twice for longer visits to Israel. Bog means God in Polish so he fondly said his Hebrew given name was Natanel.
The fact that he worked in Germany for the last five years of his life, makes me believe he had to learn German too.
So let us say that our common kanguages were not the strongest , but Bogdan had a deep commitment to communicate, using both his heart and his creative mind to do so. There was also a lot of pantomine...
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