Heh. I will only say this once, but I do think you're awesome. All of you.
In other news, how is your Chinese? Where did it come from, and how deep does it go? (I studied old-school Mandarin for some years, but my teacher died, and everyone else in Newcastle taught modern business Chinese, simplified characters and Pinyin, which... My interest came from Taiwan, where they do not do that 'cos it's mainland. So I have done nothing for five or six years, and I remember almost exactly that, ie nothing...)
My Chinese is...rusty. I used to be what I called conversationally fluent, in the my vocabulary was not nearly up to native speaker par, but I could hold my own with native speakers and had enough vocabulary, grammar, and general fluency to get me through living in China.
I learned Chinese in college, and after 2 years of study did a 6-month study abroad in Beijing - we had a language pledge that we were only to speak Chinese, so we got pretty proficient pretty fast. Sadly I haven't used it much in the 5 years since I graduated, so the neural networks are really, really dusty. I'm hoping to get back to a reasonable level of proficiency, but we'll see how it goes. It would help to have more conversation partners, though! Morgan won't count for...quite some time.
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In other news, how is your Chinese? Where did it come from, and how deep does it go? (I studied old-school Mandarin for some years, but my teacher died, and everyone else in Newcastle taught modern business Chinese, simplified characters and Pinyin, which... My interest came from Taiwan, where they do not do that 'cos it's mainland. So I have done nothing for five or six years, and I remember almost exactly that, ie nothing...)
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My Chinese is...rusty. I used to be what I called conversationally fluent, in the my vocabulary was not nearly up to native speaker par, but I could hold my own with native speakers and had enough vocabulary, grammar, and general fluency to get me through living in China.
I learned Chinese in college, and after 2 years of study did a 6-month study abroad in Beijing - we had a language pledge that we were only to speak Chinese, so we got pretty proficient pretty fast. Sadly I haven't used it much in the 5 years since I graduated, so the neural networks are really, really dusty. I'm hoping to get back to a reasonable level of proficiency, but we'll see how it goes. It would help to have more conversation partners, though! Morgan won't count for...quite some time.
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