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Here we go again 😆
Every year or so, I make another Hail Mary at learning Arabic.
Every time, I end up throwing in the towel.
But every time, I also make it just far enough to keep the pipe dream of reading fluency (barely) alive. Without fail, it'd start perking up and wagging its tail after a while.
We'll see how far I get this time 😆

Rereading, now that I'm no longer way out of my depth about 古文 anymore.

This is actually very comforting:
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being inept and 10 being able to read literature for pleasure, most students of the language after three or four years of university study would be between 1 and 3 with respect to their ability to read. Of course, this is not true of all students, especially those who go off to Middlebury for intensive study in the summer.

so funny! I do love me a sassy textbook

my goodness I take back all previous claims that Taiwanese fiction seems less depressing than those from the mainland 🥲

I strive to be fairly well-read, but until recently my (serious) reading diet had mostly been confined to the English-speaking world.
Interestingly enough, since I started reading in Chinese, I've discovered many European thinkers/scholars/writers/artists etc as well.

vastly more entertaining and useful than al-kitaab...

much, much, much more enjoyable read than 生死疲劳. what an ending.