i see freshmen coming in not knowing a single word of chinese, and by the time they graduate from yale, they're like, speaking no bating bitig dialect better than i canoi toll yali now. I mean, it's just there so much, you gain so uch access to a culture and a people when you do understand the language. There's all these little details that you get. And a, yes, oas somting hat i wish i had more access to. So maybe i should giv it a shot. Well, if you read hydeger in german, i think you can learn a little chinase. Adam al anat a ha
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