Posts from April 2007

Apr 6, 2007

I’m going to learn German, Part II

I’m learning to speak German from a podcast. This is almost as effective as my learning breakdancing from youtube videos. A real conversation I had in dinner today: Me: Guten Abend! Mein nAme Ist Jue! (a characteristic feature of German is the random capitalization.) Girl: <something unintelligible in German. She must be speaking the country (More…)

Apr 1, 2007

I’m going to learn german.

Just kidding! Well, it might happen at some point in the unforeseeable future. To be honest, I never got past being mono-lingual. Telling people I’m fluent in Mandarin and French gives a nice warm fuzzy feeling and all, but speaking the two languages occasionally really is not like knowing them. If anything, there is a (More…)