rant: not bothered to learn chinese anymore

This is kind of a rant:

Basically I can't actually be bothered to learn Chinese (characters) anymore. I was overseas Chinese and in terms of speaking/listening I can communicate with near fluency. But with written characters I have literally lost all interest in learning. So right now, I'm in Yunnan, and all the characters I don't know tend to be cultural i.e 彝族 and during my train ride here, I past places called: 窦店，慈利。

food names, people's names, city names, it's usually cultural stuff. I do know some economic related terms but thats because I studied economics.

I feel as if learning Chinese characters is a bit like remembering quotes from the bible? i.e in the past the concept of intellect would be example: ah yes, but in the book of exodus verse 2, line 12, here it says etc etc.

simply put: I can't really bothered to learn Chinese. Or at least: how do I motivate myself again??

side note: I also know some Korean...and learning how to read Korean is soooo easy.

Basically I have learnt Chinese for around 12? years on and odf yet there is still stuff I don't know. I feel learning Chinese whilst being overseas allows me to learn how to communicate BUT not the cultural nuances of the speicific word, etc. And don't even get me started on traditional characters.

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