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Hi, I'm Ian Cleary. I'm 16 years old and I was diagnosed with aspergers syndrome at the age of 12. I knew i had something, but because I have aspie syndrome very mild, I was told that I had ADD like my mom and younger sister. I cope very well with aspie syndrome and I seem normal most of the time but nobody's perfect and I have my aspie moments in high school. I am an einstein type aspie so I have a phenomenal IQ. I am obsessed with star wars, world cultures and languages, animals, and most recently i have found interest in dragons. I speak four languages including spanish(fluently), japanese(sorta), and mandarin chinese(it is really really hard so also sorta). I hope to learn romanian(my best friends mother tongue), tagalog(fillipino), and vietnamese next. When I graduate I will mostly likely study to become a marine biologist or translator. I have gotten almost completely out of my childish phase(I no longer watch cartoons except for star wars of course), but i still play with star wars action figures even if the stories I create around them are mature and involve genocide, extreme imaginary violence, and resisting against the galactic empire. I get along with children very well but with peers not so much. I have an adopted chinese brother who is 9 years younger than me but he's like my best friend and i love him to death. He too has a learning disabilty. Alright I'll stop ranting now .

Hello and welcome to Wrong Planet!

Mabuhay! Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Ikinagagalak kong marinig na nais ninyong matutunan ang wikang Filipino.
It's good to hear that you are interested in learning the Filipino language.

Greetings, and welcome to the Wrong Planet neighborhood, fellow-traveler Ian.

Welcome to the forum

Hi, welcome. Hey, I was expecting tha tyou guys in China couldn't access any non-Chinese forums or the like.

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

Konnichiwa, genki desu ka? Irrashai Ronigupuranetu-wa!

And that's about all I know how to say.

kumusta po kayo

To WrongPlanet!! !

Ayos naman, kapatid. ^_^

ShenLong, your title is LONG.
I've tried learning Chinese as well, and it's frigging hard. I've found that flashcards are helpful, but you have to take a very small group of characters at once and learn them very well before moving on. It also helps grouping them according to similar radicals. But it's still a headache to learn, especially when you live in a country where the universal language is not Chinese.

Man, I wanna go to China.
Or Japan. Or some other country where everything is so interesting and different.

Anyways, my post was LONG.
Welcome to WP!

shen long means divine dragon in mandarin. I also go by bai shen long or white divine dragon . I got the name from a combination of chinese words I know and my favorite boss in my favorite game Monster Hunter, The white fatalis. It is a god in a way in the games lore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-mAY5Z8qY

I found it funny when I first learned what a dragon is called in Chinese, because these dragons at Chinese New Year festivals are the longest things ever.
Plus, it makes the word super-easy to remember.