Well, I’ve never written anything like this before, documenting my feelings isn’t something I normally do, but for now I’ll make an exception, so here goes. As my profile description says, I am an au pair in Shijiazhuang in China’s Hebei province, or Shizzwang as my family has taken to calling it, chinese words confuse them. Now my purpose for being in China is quite simple, I want to learn Chinese the quickest way possible, through immersion for an extended period of time. Sounds like a great plan, huh? This is the funny bit, because, pardon my French, Chinese is a bastard of a language to learn. I mean, for any of you who are complaining because you’re finding something like Spanish hard: grow up, it’s child’s play in comparison to the sheer amount of infuriation
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