| In my area, there is a Japanese restaurant that I | | | | I answered that question one night when I was |
| like a lot named Mira Kuya. (If you live is NEPA, | | | | speaking with a waitress at the restaurant. This is |
| then I highly recommend that you check it out. | | | | what I said: |
| Let's face it: There is nothing like an evening of | | | | I should know more than I know now, but I |
| sushi and saki!) This restaurant, even though | | | | haven't made a commitment to sit down every |
| specializing in Japanese food, is owned and | | | | night for a little while and study the language. |
| operated by Chinese folks. We've become friendly | | | | For every thing in life, the main thing one has to |
| over the years and along the way, I've been | | | | do in order to succeed is to make the |
| learning bits and pieces of the Chinese language. | | | | commitment to do something. One has to say, "If |
| You see, I love to learn new things and am | | | | I am going to do this, then this is what I need to |
| always trying to pick up a language here and | | | | do." Once that die is cast, then one must follow |
| there. The difficult thing about learning a language | | | | through and do what must be done. |
| is not so much the learning of the words, but the | | | | Haanel says the same thing, but in different |
| practicing of them with someone else who speaks | | | | words, in Week Four of The Master Key System. |
| the language. Even if one took the time and | | | | If you do not intend to do a thing, do not start. If |
| money to take a course or two in a community | | | | you do start, see it through even if the heavens |
| college, if one doesn't have anyone with whom to | | | | fall; if you make up your mind to do something, |
| speak it, then ... Well, we all know how the things | | | | do it; let nothing, no one interfere; the "I" in you |
| we learn get rusty when we don't use them. | | | | has determined, the thing is settled; the die is |
| Anyway, I've learned a few basic words and | | | | cast, there is no longer any argument. |
| phrases and I even went so far as to download a | | | | That, my friends, is what commitment is - and it |
| bunch of podcasts to help me learn. Now, even | | | | really is the defining line betwixt success of any |
| with all of this knowledge being thrown at me - | | | | kind and absolute failure. |
| the fine people at the restaurant, the podcasts, | | | | So, commit yourself to something and then follow |
| the written pages I've printed from the Internet - | | | | through. Start small. Build up to the big things, |
| I am only able to speak the bare basics, such as | | | | because, as you'll see, the big things are always |
| hello and goodbye - and maybe a dirty word or | | | | composed of little things that work together in |
| two that were taught to me. | | | | one amazing whole. |
| Why is that? | | | | |