@lorentz@NanoRaptor FWIW: It is "As a European" not "an". I know it doesn't make sense. Genuinely trying to be helpful not snide, grammar nazi whatever. Technically it is a consonant sound. Except when it is "an hospital".
(Prego, in cambio, sei libero di correggere il mio italiano, che lascia tanto a desiderare - e che tu lo parli).