Tag: learning languages
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Giving up on Chinese for… Russian?
As I mentioned in my previous post, I hadn’t done much reading in English this semester because I had another thought: why not read in another language? To which you might respond “Chinese, right?” Well, no. You see, I’ve got kinda fed up with Chinese. Not only is learning Chinese difficult, it’s made more difficult…
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An Update on the Progress of My Learning of the Chinese Language
I had at least one moment of clarity in the past couple of months: Chinese sounded like a real language. That is to say, after returning to Beijing and spending some time away from the Chinese language, I was on the bus when the computerized voice announced the next stop. Without much thinking (although I was…