So my new thing is taking up a Chinese language. I figure that I've taken enough of the European languages and that's a total lost cause so I'm going to try something totally different. Or perhaps, given my background, it's going back to the basics.
I figure it's time to start getting on with my life again and my life includes a variety of classes. The difficulty now is deciding which of these languages to choose. I was doing a lot of reading on it and though Mandarin is the official language and more widely spoken, Cantonese is definitely the more prevalent here in Vancouver. Not only that, much of the Chinese popular culture I enjoy is in Cantonese so it's perhaps the better, if not the most useful. I also found out that as a fluent Vietnamese speaker, Cantonese may be easier as they have many similar sounding consonants. Huh. Never knew that.
That said, the Cantonese one starts on a week that I'm in San Fran so it sucks that I would miss the first class. Still, it's probably the one I will choose.
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