i really miss how chinese characters looked really interesting, chinese sounded very exciting and new, and how weird the grammar read in my mind or when i spoke it. now it's all just really normal looking and sounding to me
it's a great milestone to run into in a language-learning journey, but i really miss how exciting and interesting everything was. i remember being so eager to be able to passively, as opposed to actively, listen and understand chinese, but its just a normal skill now (1/?)