[javadog]

I didn't learn anything while watching Chinese martial arts movies in Singapore while growing up.

Other than they made really awful martial arts movies. But, it was all we had.

They say you can still learn languages at an advanced age. I sometimes look at Japanese or French and think, nope.

With Japanese, even if you could learn to ask where the restroom was, reading Japanese would be too huge an ask. I know people that grew up in Japan and can speak it enough to get around that can't read or write anything of any real use.

I'm looking at phone apps that translate written and spoken language.