   neutral   It ’ s not easy, particularly with listening and speaking, because sometimes the connection isn ’ t too good.     neutral   I bet you find the character difficult to write!  
    neutral   Actually, many of the characters are the same or very similar in both Chinese and Japanese, so they ’ re easy for me.     neutral   So, you can read and write much better than you speak and understand other speakers, right?  
    neutral   Yes. How are the Spanish classes going?     neutral   
 Well, it is quite different. Because my wife is from Costa Rica where everyone knows some Spanish but
 Oh, great. And my German is still poor!    neutral   But do you need