I speak English and Spanish, having been blessed in my formative years to learn both English and Spanish as una tejana original. After leaving Texas at age nine and being cut off from meaningful language development for years, I moved to Rochester, NY in the mid 1980s and met a large number of people from various parts of the Hispanic world. This very week I was able to contact a woman in my area who tutors in Spanish, and we are supposed to start working together by Zoom.
I found the video below yesterday, and it gives me hope that I can begin at long last to learn written Chinese. I have a good ear but have been overwhelmed for years at the prospect of recognizing and remembering thousands of characters with zero diacrirtical marks for pronunciation and no grammar that maps well onto “western” grammar.
