What drove me to start learning Mandarin Chinese may be a bit unusual🫣I wonder if anyone here has a similar experience with why THEY started learning a foreign language. Let me know in the comments. For me it was when my grandma and dad passed away. I was sooo sad and my days were either filled with tears or a feeling of numbness as the pain was so great. Focusing my mind on learning Chinese gave me something else to focus my emotions and thoughts on and made me feel closer to my deceased loved ones. My dream and aspirations with the language is to be able to understand the romantic C-dramas and Taiwanese dramas without subtitles😄🙈 (lame I know but I’m a sucker for those sappy romances), travel to China and Taiwan and be able to connect with the people through their language, be able to connect with Chinese speaking people no matter where I meet them😃, use Mandarin Chinese as a gateway to learning Cantonese and most importantly be able to write a letter to my grandfather that he can read and understand🥰 I also want to be able to write a letter to my dad and grandmother in Chinese characters. Even though they’re not physically here I still want to be able to do that for them and myself💖 Tell me, is family or love one of the driving forces behind your language learning journey? I’d love to know☺️