Editing User:Tusjecht (section)

===...lingual===
After discovering the official Chinese Translations of Oreimo, I realised there is indeed an entire world out there I'm missing out just because I disliked Chinese in Pre-U.

...suffice to say, it's not too late. In the process of translating AW I'm slowly picking up my Chinese. Though it will never reach anything like the level of Flere821, or any other reasonably well-educated student my age. I missed out on two years of Chinese Ed when I was 9-12 because I was staying overseas when my father was posted to the US, so I've always been two years behind. I can still handle simple conversations and sentences, but I'm out of my depth when I look at the WEB Alicization translations. That's why it's ambitious of me to try translation when I can barely read a sentence uninterrupted.

(But then again Flere821 has declared, he's not really interested in translation from his Index days so this is still a possibility.)

When I'm in university I plan to kick my Japanese learning into fifth gear. There's a class just for Japanese covering all aspects up to basic conversation and manners, and that's better than nothing. I can now roughly understand sentences and grammar, and while I can't read a lot of kanji I definitely can understand their meaning most of the time.

I envy Teh_Ping for having the determination to learn Japanese from scratch for this. Granted though, his Chinese is definitely on a better footing than mine to begin with.

I might want to retake both my major exams as a private candidate just for this, maybe studying English Literature at the same time too (I had an interest but put it off after discouragement that it was hard to score).