The last time I seriously studied Mandarin was for 1 1/2 years in college. With my 15 year reunion coming up, that officially means I have since spent half of my life flailing to learn a second language. However, over the past year, I have improved much more, and it’s all because of external motivation. […]
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Butchering French in Paris
Over three years of high school French class, I spent a lot of time learning conjugations and tenses. I memorized how to combine aller (to go) with I, you (informal), and so forth. I memorized the same for the past tense and so forth. And I forgot a lot of it, and by the time […]