Writing computer code, or at the least being conversant in the firm's program of choice, OCaml, is a requisite for all traders.
While this program won't help you learn another language – in fact, if you're not at least slightly conversant in that language it won't work at all – it's good way to prevent potential shamefacedness while peacocking to your lady friends in foreign lands.
The participants had to be at least 18 years, conversant in Dutch, and meet one of the following criteria: be in the third trimester of pregnancy, have recently (within 12 months) given birth, or be a partner of the latter group of women.
Having been a student of technical subjects at Princeton (and then Stanford) in the 1960s, I was conversant with, and at least mildly excited by, the promise of nuclear fusion.
He was conversant with Chinese culture, at least up to a point.
Just over half of Europeans (54%) are able to hold a conversation in at least one additional language, a quarter (25%) are able to speak at least two additional languages and one in ten (10%) are conversant in at least three.
The national preoccupation with restoring befouled air, water and soil to health is opening lucrative career doors for lawyers, entrepreneurs, engineers, professors - anyone who is conversant with environmental issues, or at least willing to learn.
Jourdain, a former student of Russell's, was quite conversant with the developing mathematical logic (at least to a degree he was a competent, but not quite first-rate, practitioner), went on to publish informed survey articles on (in addition to the piece on Frege already mentioned) Boole, Jevons, MacColl, and Peano, and had written on Russell's earlier work on the principles of mathematics.
The inclusion criteria were that the participants could recall using a CAM (very openly defined as 'natural' or complementary medicine bought from a pharmacy, health food store or supermarket), were conversant in English, and were aged at least 18 years.
While not all of the volunteers are conversant in English, most of them have at least a few words, which has been a big effort given that a few years ago just 2% of Sochi residents had intermediate English or better.
