Thread of True Honesty

Yes, but some langages are harder than others depending on your native language. too lazy to dig up the study showing the top most difficult languages for native English speakers to learn. I think Cantonese was on the top.

Cantonese is hella hard. It really is like learning two languages at once because the spoken word uses completely different words compared to the written.

Kana? Really?

Although I never really learned it, I did at least try to write out those Kana (the alphabet system right?). The loops and squiggles aren't what I'm used to, haha.

Ugh. I took French and Spanish in High school (again, we couldn't pick classes, so I was stuck with these two despite how much I didn't want to learn them). Failed both. French teacher went soft on me and decided to just pass me so I wouldn't be stuck with Spanish or French again.

I had a Canto Mandarin teacher and he was pretty good and everybody liked him. I had the luck to have a totally awesome French teacher who fed us cheesecake every week for participating in vocabulary & conjugation games. My last French teacher is "so perfect that we should all be getting 100%". He was hard and always shouted at how bad our class was. Despite his attitude towards my class, we did extremely well when we took our IB French Exams and after the ordeal was done I became thankful to him. Actually he always tried to talk to me in Cantonese since his wife was Cantonese and it was really entertaining

When I was growing up, I was a bit ahead of the "Toonami boom" so to speak. By the time DBZ and stuff were airing, my age range were getting out of watching Cartoons. Of course, that stuff was still popular at the time with even high schoolers, but this early on it was a bit difficult to find anyone who really liked anime other than the ones airing on Toonami, especially someone who would openly talk to others about it in an attempt to form a social clique.

So I never really got to experience that kinda thing first hand. I see it if I happen to be outside in a nerdy place though (Pokemon events, manga isle of a bookstore where there's people laying on the floor and reading even though there's a designated reading area in the store, etc.) but I've never been in a situation where I'm forced to be around someone who's being annoying.

I dunno what Toonami is but I used to watch Dragonball Z too. Got kind of boring when Frieza (forgot the spelling), the most powerful warrior in the universe, was defeated and suddenly there's a new villain who far surpasses Frieza's powers. I was in Elementary School when it was popular (I think in Canada the shows get aired a lot later than for the Americans). During that time, I was really obsessed with Pokemon; but who wasn't :x?

The only time I experienced Anime irl was a convention that was located at the same place I was volunteering at a summer camp for. It was so loud and I would be embarrassed to wear the costumes some of the participants of the convention was wearing.