Yup, that's why it's so fun! :-) Although saying that there are lots of easy bits. Once you can count from 1-20, you then know how to say the days of the weeks and months, after learning just the words for 'day' and 'month'.
So January is month 1, and Tuesday is day 2, 50 is 5, 10s. So I'm liking that logic and it saves having to memorise days of weeks and months of years. Even the writing is beginning to slowly reveal itself to me. :-)
I like your attitude :) I have many ambitions of all the languages I want to learn, mandarin being the crown-jewel, but sadly you learn a bit slower the older you get, and right now I am doing some French, so the far-east (from where I am right now in Scandinavia) must wait a little.
Good thing about learning language is that you will probably not get senile when you becomes old, so hopefully we will still annoy the Steemit community with reasonably sane post many years ahead :)
Thank you... I do think we learn slower as we age, but that's only because we get out of the habit of learning. The more we do the better we get.
I must revisit French at some point; I was put off it years ago by some Parisians scorning my accent, which is silly really, as I wasn't learning it for them.
Funnily enough, from the little I know about French, I actually think Mandarin could be a good learning partner. The way they do their numbers is very similar to the French, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were other similarities, yet the vocab is different enough not to get confused.
Yes we will stay sharp into our old age, it will be many many years before the blockchain sees the back of us! :-)
Cg