[johnny]

Yeah, I took a class on Humanities of Asia, and my professor for that class could speak Chinese and on an off-day (I think the projector wasn't working or something, so she just had to fill in class time until it started up again) she told us about the Chinese tonal system and how if you say something with what English-speakers might call an "excited" tone or a "monotone", they're two different words. I pretty much killed any plans of taking Chinese classes after I learned that. xD