This was my experience with learning Mandarin Chinese. I loved learning it when I was a teenager. I got out all the books in the library, and was practicing fla

This was my experience with learning Mandarin Chinese. I loved learning it when I was a teenager. I got out all the books in the library, and was practicing flash cards with our Chinese friends. Then I decided that I may as well do it at school, so I started taking lessons, and they started giving me homework. And so then it became a chore, and I gave it up at the end of the year. Same for piano lessons, actually.