That is true. Sometimes my stomach tells me: "Stop your nonsense, I am full" and I tell him to shut up.

I think that's because the language is really difficult. A lot of the dominant languages in the world (English, French, Spanish...) are very different from Chinese, hence the difficulty.

In spite of that, the teaching of Chinese language has known a real boom in France in the last 15 years (it's near the top 5 of the most taught languages at school, with about 600 high schools and 150 universities proposing it).

Learning Chinese is considered a real asset to find a job by pupils and their parents, as China's commerce is the most powerful in the world.

1) Lee Strasberg from the Actor Studio called me the best actress he had ever seen;

2) I was once fired by Columbia studios;

3) I acted in a Marx Brothers' movie;

4) I was one of the first actresses to launch my own film production company.

"Acocdrnig to a reschearer at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy".

This sentence is understandable, but if one were to write like this in a Cambridge exam, they would get an F- ;-)

My guy and I are in a civil partnership but none of us wants children.

I am a really anxious person and if I had a child, I would worry myself sick about them being possibly harassed at school, about them not being able to live the things that I did because of the environnemental issues of today...

I like children but I am too independent to allow another person dictate what I am to do. We cannot do as we want in the workplace, so I feel a vital need to have some freedom in my spare time. Also I don't like noise, so....

James S C diamonds?

I thing it would definitively be Italy. I love the language (which I study), the architecture, history, food...

Plus being from southern France, going to Italy feels a bit like visiting cousins.

# Natalia

You're right, in some cases mistakes such as the ones I've chosen can be typos, but if they struck me in the comments I've read before, it must have been because the person's writing skills were poor in general (I didn't really pay attention to your own mistakes as it's obvious that your command of English is very good so in your case, they had to be typos).

Also, when people write "I should of" instead of "I should have", it's not a typo. I've seen many people correcting others on that, and the person who had made this mistake never said "sorry it was a typo".

I agree that you can get knowledge from every field or situation, but my opinion is that one should try to learn a few things about as many fields as possible. It broadens your horizons and, as all fields are somewhat connected, what you learn in one field can translate in another field.

The answers in this topic are very interesting because we have different opinions as to what constitutes ignorance. You think that it's impossible to remain ignorant, I think the opposite: we all have domains we know nothing about and therefore, we are ignorant in that domain (but not necessarily ignorant in general).

Sometimes people learn something only when it is immediately useful, but the problem is that it's a short-term goal, and I think that many pieces of information amongst the most important are only useful in the long run (you never completely know what is going to come in handy). So excluding a subject because "It isn't worth my time, I have no use for it now" can be eventually damaging.