Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Ways to feel like you haven’t learned anything

#1.  Take an actual document that is important.  Write it in English with the best grammar and vocabulary that you can muster.  Now try translating it into Spanish.

You end up saying all the important things you were trying to say with the vocabulary of a 6 year old, the grammar of a 3 year old, and list of things that still aren’t right that are a mile long.  And in the end you have managed to say nothing with the intent with which you first wrote it. 

Talk about humility.

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