Originally Posted by jwb

Tried learning mandarin via pimsler, super hard. Gave up. Was sorta fun though.

Then tried a bit of Spanish. I can understand it better than mandarin but still not great at spanish either. I have in laws that constantly speak in spanish and I can sorta piece together bits of what they're saying but I can't speak it worth a damn myself. They're Colombian so their spanish is a bit cleaner and easier to understand than some other spanish people I meet though. My sister is getting pretty fluent in it.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.