{"id":13,"date":"2009-02-06T07:34:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chineseeinstein.wordpress.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2009-02-06T07:34:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:34:25","slug":"even-more-random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jason-fu.com\/blog\/even-more-random-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"even more random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need my essays for any reason (or you just want to read them), I posted them on jfuessay.wordpress.com<\/p>\n<p>I had a few days (or weeks) to think. I came up with this.<\/p>\n<p>I want to learn more languages. I want to learn Spanish, Japanese, French, Polish, Korean, German, and some others. Recently I figured out that since some \u00a0languages come from the same root language (like the Indo-European language), the languages are really similar. I used some of my background knowledge from learning Russian to figure out what someone said in Spanish. 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