My older sister randomly learned Mandarin Chinese and did a University degree in it and I'm still just like HOW DO ALL THESE PICTOGRAMS WHAT. And I take it Hokkien is a different kind of Chinese from Mandarin and Cantonese?

French is the same with the word genders. My main failing with French and German is that I can read it okay, but I'm not so good speaking or writing it as I can't remember the word genders and my grammar isn't so good i love Russian because there is no word for 'the'

fkl;';d;z;dl;zd;ddcz;lk;;; NO FUCKIN' WAY, MAN. Okay. So. I may just happen to have all four of the Nightwatch books in English just sitting on my bookshelf and I've just not gotten around to reading them yet because I hoard books like a motherfucker but if you want AU Nightwatch!Tomo that's as good a reason as any to bump 'em up my reading list, yeah? I mostly read fantasy and sci-fi and comics and manga and shit anyway.

I FIND DEPRESSING THINGS REALLY INTERESTING. Like my main interest in Russia is the horrible period of history under Stalin, and the criminal society which existed in the gulags when he was in power, and I've read loads of books about corrupt Russian politics and I'm like wtf is wrong with me