Thanks! I wasn't too late. And it's not exactly hard—it's just time consuming and a bit mentally exhausting, since it's three hours long and I go four times a week.
*low whistle* That's a lot of Chinese classes. ^-^ I'm glad you're not finding them too hard. Have you been studying the language long? (As a sidenote, I'm having to keep my eye on the time myself at the moment. Though my class is on Edwardian literature.)
For about two years, give or take, though living in a Mandarin speaking country for the last eight months has really helped. I speak at about an intermediate level? Good enough to order a pizza and have long boring everyday conversations and where to go out to eat and which celeb is dating who.
Edwardian literature, though, I know like nothing about that.
Ooooooh... That sounds awesome. ^-^ Are you enjoying life there? (One day, I will move out of the Netherlands. I just don't know where to yet.) I admit I'm a tad envious of you and not great at asking questions. ^-^;
Literarywise, it's a period of about ten, fourteen years. Right between 1900 and 1914. Quite an eventful period, too, seems like. I'd be happy to try and expand on it if there's anything specific you'd be interested in, but I'm by no means an expert.
Well I won't be here long! I'm an exchange student, and I'll be going home to Arizona in July. I'm liking it pretty good so far, though! Some things are hard to get used to, but that's the same anywhere. (And hey, I think the Netherlands sounds pretty interesting actually! I've never been there!)
Wow, that seems incredibly specific. Is your major like literature then?
I'm glad that you're enjoying it! I went on exchange to Japan when I was 17 and had to go home early due to culture shock. It always makes me happy to hear of other exchange people doing better. ^-^ I hope you'll find yourself used to the harder things too before your stay is over, and that you'll get to go back if you'd like to. ^-^ (It's quite interesting and there's loads of things I'd miss about it, but it's also not where I want to spend my life.)
It might've been a longer period if WW1 hadn't broken out, but yes it's quite specific. *nods* My BA was all over the place and covered pretty much every aspect of English, but for my MA I've had to specialise in one of the overarching fields I got to play around in before. Your major is linguistics?
Yeeeah, I took Mandarin for four years before I actually went to China as an exchange student; my language skills SKYROCKETED in that month in Shanghai.
I took Mandarin for just a year and a half before coming here and man, it felt like I didn't know anything, at all. I couldn't do anything! And my program at university was pretty intense, like five days a week with tons of characters and crap. It seems that if you're not using your Chinese A LOT you're toast.
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Also, hi! Nice to meet you. ^-^
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Nice to meet you! :D
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Edwardian literature, though, I know like nothing about that.
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Literarywise, it's a period of about ten, fourteen years. Right between 1900 and 1914. Quite an eventful period, too, seems like. I'd be happy to try and expand on it if there's anything specific you'd be interested in, but I'm by no means an expert.
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Wow, that seems incredibly specific. Is your major like literature then?
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It might've been a longer period if WW1 hadn't broken out, but yes it's quite specific.
*nods* My BA was all over the place and covered pretty much every aspect of English, but for my MA I've had to specialise in one of the overarching fields I got to play around in before. Your major is linguistics?
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