It took me some time, but it is one thing to translate and to read English, and one thing is to listen to English, or to speak English. I mean there are differences in difficulties. But I never lost my accent of course, I still have a foreign accent, but I got a working knowledge of English pretty quickly, so I could read a little bit. Well, when Italy entered the war my position vis-à-vis the authorities had changed because I had become an enemy alien. But apart from that, at that time, Germany had started a real war with the invasion of Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium.