Eight Languages. Eight Years.
Introduction Greetings to the blogging world! I go by "dystopianist" online, a portmanteau of "dystopian" and "pianist". I view societal equilibrium as a place filled with suffering, and I like to play the piano for fun. I've thought about learning languages for a long time. I've played word games competitively since I was six and played poker to fund my university tuition. I am exceptionally competitive, but have stepped away from competitive strategy gaming in recent years. Simply, I am past my gaming prime and am moving on to new adventures. I am riddled with the phenomena known as "ladder anxiety" and want to have a more fulfilling passion. As my word game history has had me interested with letters and parts of speech for many years, I always thought that acquiring a language might be rewarding. However, I've been on and off with the language of my heritage (Mandarin Chiinese) for over ten years now and passive learning just doesn...