First notebook entry: Introducing myself I have been trying to learn Chinese several times but I cannot find any method that adapts to me. My main reason to learn Traditional Chinese is that my wife is from Taiwan and I really want to surprise her with some romantic conversations. Besides that I know the importance of Chinese as the language is spoken by billions of people in the world. I grow up in Mexico therefore; I speak Spanish as a main language but my mom has Italian/Hungarian background and my dad is Spaniard/German. Their families immigrated to Mexico mostly during the war times. I really like drawing and painting and classical music. I am not a sport guy but I like to keep myself on shape. I like good movies and I rather read a book in the original language than a translated version.