Nee how China; Good-by USA

On Dec 10 I took off for Wuhan and the trip from San Francisco to Beijing my seat partner was a very nice Chinese man who was returning from CA to China for a week's business trip; this was his first time home in six years. He had a Canadian passport and told me he had completed his MS and PhD in California and worked for Google.

During our conversation through the 12 hour flight, he offered a unique view on learning English since he learned I was on my way to teach in Wuhan. He said it's easist to read English, next write it, but most difficult to speak. By living in the states he had learned to speak English much more and said there are two tests of one's ability to learn a language.

If you can start to think in English rather than Chinese that's when you really know the language, but if you start dreaming in it--as he had done recently--then you really knew you had learned the language. Although he said, there were always cultural issues that he was continually learning.