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owlectomyAt the risk of making myself look silly:
Chinese is really hard! You'd think there'd be more transfer from Japanese, even though they're not actually related, but no...it's just hard.
Then again, hard is fun. I can sink my teeth into it. Spanish is so closely related to French that it really isn't that hard in some respects, so I can't really convince myself to study it--yet it's not so easy that I can just open a book and read for fun. It would help if I could take a structured class, but my skills are so unbalanced that I'm not sure if I could find one at my level; still, I'm satisfied that my Spanish is professionally adequate, if on the low end of professionally adequate. (Can I put that on my resume? "On the low end of professionally adequate"? I can't think of anything less informative than "intermediate"...)
Anyway, I get to go up to Montreal soon, which means a trip to Chinatown and maybe some CDs and translated manga. And food OH THE FOOD. The Chinese food around here is--well, it's actually fairly decent, sometimes, but that's the most I can say for it.
Chinese is really hard! You'd think there'd be more transfer from Japanese, even though they're not actually related, but no...it's just hard.
Then again, hard is fun. I can sink my teeth into it. Spanish is so closely related to French that it really isn't that hard in some respects, so I can't really convince myself to study it--yet it's not so easy that I can just open a book and read for fun. It would help if I could take a structured class, but my skills are so unbalanced that I'm not sure if I could find one at my level; still, I'm satisfied that my Spanish is professionally adequate, if on the low end of professionally adequate. (Can I put that on my resume? "On the low end of professionally adequate"? I can't think of anything less informative than "intermediate"...)
Anyway, I get to go up to Montreal soon, which means a trip to Chinatown and maybe some CDs and translated manga. And food OH THE FOOD. The Chinese food around here is--well, it's actually fairly decent, sometimes, but that's the most I can say for it.