Bad Sign Number Six Million And Twenty

[bloodyrosemccoy]

If you have ever asked yourself, “What kind of crazy motherfucker picks up a ‘My Chinese Coach’ video game and plows into it headfirst because it looks like fun?”, then, well, I have your answer.

Yes, in a casual attempt to overcome my fear of tone, and because I had not yet done something this summer that was so fucking geeky that I had other geeks trying to push me down and take my lunch money, I have started learning Chinese through the extremely thorough and doubtless infallible world of video games.* And I’m treating it like a video game.

For the record, I’m on Level 9. Soon I will beat Chinese. I’m hoping that when I do, the last thing it teaches me is how to say “A Winner Is You.”


*Of course, this is coming someone who would pick a stack of Rosetta Stone programs over a vacation to Disneyworld if given the choice.

Comments

[evilcresyluna.livejournal.com]

It is only too bad that Learn French or Die* hasn't been reincarnated, I would totally play that all day. Cheapo-roleplaying-esque language video game? I'm there.

*they did a Spanish one too, although I never played it.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god. That is the best language philosophy I've ever heard.

[evilcresyluna.livejournal.com]

It was literal, too! In the game you were dying all the damn time, you took the wrong alley, you died, you happened to be out THAT night after curfew, you died (but not every night, frequently you had to go out after curfew) - you ordered the chicken at the restaurant because everyone told you how fantastic it was, you died. Still, I had so much fun.

[baby-rissa-chan.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome!!!