Learning Chinese: an exciting challenge
Not everybody speaks a hundred languages like St. Francis Xavier did, as his great hagiographer Fr. Garcia hyberbolically said. Therefore, missionaries usually have to learn languages. Some languages are “strange” or are supposedly too difficult or even impossible to learn. One of those is Mandarin. So that’s why I write this chronicle, about the five-millenia-old language of the Celestial Empire, […]
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