Languages. Material versus method.
I, like many people, came to the conclusion that I was terrible at languages.
I suffered through Spanish for junior high, first year of high school, and the sum total of my knowledge was pretty much, " Donde esta el bano" ?
And I wouldn't even catch the response.
A sad state of affairs.
Then I transferred to a different school sophomore year. And I had a choice of other languages.
Most of my friends were taking Japanese.
So I thought why not punish myself?
I'll do Japanese.
Six months later I had the chance to go to Japan.
