I have take a step that I might regret, which is that I have arranged for, and paid for, Spanish lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So on Mondays and Wednesdays it’s Chinese and then a switchover to the other language. I am more worried about the Chinese suffering than the Spanish; since I know the latter better, even as I started writing the email to arrange the classes I found myself slipping into Spanish and forgetting Chinese pronunciations. So I must institute a careful regimen to transfer from one language to the other.
My Spanish lessons will be with my teacher from Medellin. She and her husband were supposed to be in Spain this year, it was an opportunity of a lifetime for them, but with the coronavirus all that is at an end or at least suspended. I am looking forward to the lessons, they start next Tuesday.