u/JGF310

I have been learning French and need more conversation practice.

I am interested in trying iTalki, but I wonder what would we talk about, and will it just be awkward.

I am pretty involved with sailboat racing, and ocean racing in particular.

I find myself traveling to France regularly to sail. Mostly the guys I sail with speak English, but sometimes not so well, and it would be great to be useful to converse with them about sailing in French.

I was thinking that if I found a French tutor who sails, we would have something to talk about, so it wouldn't be awkward, and I would learn the lingo. I can learn the vocabulary from French learn to sail books, but the phrases that people actually use are not necessarily in the books.

Anyway - i put "sailing" and a few other terms into the search bar on italki for french instructors, but didn't find anyone.

I am thinking of getting one of the ablation procedures done.

I am kind of surprised by how long people here need for recovery. I have had a lot of orthopedic surgery, and I had guessed that ablation would be almost nothing compared with that.

After all, there is no incision, and all they do is freeze (or whatever) a part of a tiny nerve and/or its sheath.

It seems almost trivial.

But, it seems it isn't.

So what is actually has to happen to your nerve, or whatever other tissue, for one to be considered "recovered" from an ablation?