Learning Your Way to Yourself – Learning Chinese

www.sinosplice.com — John at Sinosplice shares some great insight into the difficulties of learning a language and the personality-castration it tends to bring with it. "Someone who is always the life of the party may have a really hard time being that guy that’s hard to understand and that doesn’t make much sense. The quick-witted jokesters may find it especially painful to never be funny in the target language (for a very long time)."

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fredster 2 years 24 weeks ago

"Personality-castration" describes it perfectly.

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