Self-teaching is a long way

Self-teaching is the longer way than I ever thought, and the character is also an important factor that always be neglected on this journey.

I major in Computer Science, but it's not the reason to prevent me from learning nature languages. Actually, even the computer science is my interest more than livelihood. So besides English I have been learning Japanese and Elvish either.

In my country English is not the official language, but it is the required course. I think you can understand why I use the words "required course". Right, the education goes the wrong way and it is not enough to attract students. But there is also a good news for at least university students. With the development and popularization of the internet, we could watch the original foreign movies easily. No doubt this is a good way to study foreign languages.  But it is a pity to say I awakened too late in learning English because it is this year I became interested in the culture of the west. Luckily, it is not too late to make up my lost.

Four years ago,  In order to play the RPG 空の軌跡 whose Chinese translation is too bad I planned to learn Japanese, but I am a loser. I still could not use Japanese any more until the game had completed. Of course there was another import reason. I like computer science too much to learn any other things seriously. I think the underlying reason is: Interest is a good driving force in most of the conditions. But if the force is too strong, and the man is not aware of keeping balance, things will goes worse and worse. Our minds will grow up by reflecting like this.

Elvish is a real nature language, but it is not enough for everyday usage because of the lack of vocabulary. However, it does complete in Linguistics, maybe it is a good choice to understand how dose the nature language work.  Okay, I recognize that I cannot tell the reason clearly. Perhaps the only reason is just the interest. Then in order to interpret the action I found that reason. Luck that it is not a bad reason. But it does give me a by-effect that I have a chance to explore the knowledge of Linguistics and its around which would be a meta-knowledge for me.

Yes, you may generalize that all I do is just due to my character. My character always plays an important role in my decision making even instead of the rational thinking.  Sometimes we need this spirit, following the interests unconditionally; sometimes this spirit will drive us far away from our main direction. Balancing is always one of the most complex problems. Aha, that is troublesome, and if there is no better solution, just follow what I have been doing.

BTW: Knowledge is categorized by human-beings themselves. The fact is that all the knowledge more or less has underlying relationship in some abstract levels.