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25 March 2009 @ 01:05 pm
I have nothing to complain about  
I'm finally over being selfish. :)
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The Certificate of Attendance was issued last Monday for Level 1. No classes for today and yesterday. Level 2 will start tomorrow.

I spent the entire morning reviewing my past lessons as I must admit the course is getting harder to grasp. The gendered nouns are the least of my worries right now as I am more hard up with the Grammatik...

Because I realized that German is really "barok" English:

Haben wir Milch? ~ Have we milk? Which is their way of saying: Do we have milk?
Ich esse nicht gern Fisch. ~ I (to) eat not like fish. Which is really: I do not like to eat fish.
Ich habe Hunger. ~ I have hunger. Which is: I am hungry.

So when you're used to speaking and talking and writing in English, the tendency is to have a hard time "unlearning" English grammar.

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Bertolt Brecht and Friedrich Rückert are Germans.
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Riette: tgwltt: three and everyone[info]psychoxxgarden on March 25th, 2009 09:46 am (UTC)
My english sounds really funny after I write something in Japanese. ;~; Which is really weird.

German. The toughest language to learn, so they say. But I like how German sounds.
alich: a collection[info]orange_stardust on March 25th, 2009 01:18 pm (UTC)
Toughest language? I don't think so. I had a harder time learning Nihonggo in college. :P
Riette[info]psychoxxgarden on March 25th, 2009 01:21 pm (UTC)
i remember reading it in college, in Rizal. something like that.
apple-eating heathen: MOVIE Natalie Portman[info]thisistheplan on March 25th, 2009 10:24 am (UTC)
I am so excited for you!!!
alich: lamps[info]orange_stardust on March 25th, 2009 01:38 pm (UTC)
I just hope that the course is enough to get me a visa.
winglessdreamer[info]winglessdreamer on March 25th, 2009 11:00 am (UTC)
It's the same in Dutch :).
That would be: Hebben we melk? - Ik eet niet graag vis. - Ik heb honger.

good luck with it :)
alich: sneakers[info]orange_stardust on March 25th, 2009 01:43 pm (UTC)
You're Dutch? How did you learn English?
winglessdreamer[info]winglessdreamer on March 25th, 2009 01:47 pm (UTC)
I'm Belgian :). We learn English at school when we're fourteen, but most kids pick it up sooner from tv and music. I think it's always a good thing when tv keeps the original language and puts subtitles to it, instead of dubbing.
Aparna: Read[info]inspirethoughts on March 25th, 2009 02:33 pm (UTC)
unlearning English Grammar

That is like trying to walk first then crawl...:)
Kath Leomo[info]sinabsolution on March 26th, 2009 06:41 am (UTC)
i have hunger, i cant wait any longer :P

hihihihi, for some people it is easy to unlearn the English language.
sidreus: OregonTrail[info]sidreus on March 27th, 2009 04:09 am (UTC)
I only know one language and I am told that as you get older, it becomes harder to learn another one. I tried to learn the language of Lakota, a native American tribe (a sub-tribe of the Sioux) in the central north part of the U.S. I tried to learn it on my own, studying the way they put phrases together and I thought it was beautiful how they always referred to nature. The words would come from weather terms, references to trees, sky, birds, animals, wind, rivers, plants. Thatt was very sweet, I think...the way they connected with the place they lived. It makes it even more heartbreaking, when you consider how they were pushed off of their land.

I know my pronunciation was most likely askew, but during that time, I began to relate to nature in a more intimate way, from having studied their language. I'm not sure if I'll study it again, but why did I feel so drawn to that one in partiuclar? There aren't too many people that actually speak it, not even here.

Although no one speaks original Latin (except Priests and maybe some Doctors??) I think it would be beneficial to learn more of that. I LOVE words more than anything, even perhaps as much as, maybe more than, music! Given that, doesn't it seem odd that I only speak one language?

alich: i love you[info]orange_stardust on March 27th, 2009 09:04 am (UTC)
You were able to self-study a language? I couldn't do that... Or maybe I wouldn't have the patience and consistency to do that.

I love the references with nature. :) How does the language sound to you after you learned more about it? And why that language in particular?

Given that, doesn't it seem odd that I only speak one language?
Yes. Because I was "born" with three right away -- English in school, books and bedtime stories, Ilocano at home and Tagalog via the soaps on local TV and in class as well). And I thought it was always like that in any part of the world.
 
 

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