geh zum teufel
Minulla on huomena testi. Mutta en puhu hyvin suomea... se on huono. Minä pidä tampereen yliopistosta, ja minä pidän Tamperesta, ja minä pidän ihmisestä tässä Lapinkaarissa. Minä opiskelen tässä venäjää, tšekkia, ja suomea, ja opitelen vielä italiaa italialaistasta. En tiedä jos puhun suomea... perkkele.
I'm taking a hint from Heinrich Schliemann, the guy who discovered the historical site of what is now believed to be the ancient city of Troy, on how to learn languages; that is, writing in a journal in the language of the place where you are living. I kinda tried it last year, actually, with that other journal I started, welche_sprache, but that kinda fizzled. The biggest problem here is my Finnish is really bad still. But it's okay, I remember a year ago when I was struggling to learn numbers in Finnish, sitting at the table in my kitchen at Händelheim with all the spice jars we had and moving them around counting them in Finnish and having a really hard time with it. Now I'm able to do what I just did above, not that it's much, but still. I have a Finnish test tomorrow, I don't know how well I do, but I really hope I get 3/5 so I can take the continuation course.
It's really funny here, like, I speak English most of the time to get along with people, but I have Spanish and German lying dormant in my head and Czech, Russian, Finnish, and Italian are slowly creeping their ways in. I really scared Rita (who is from Russia) tonight when she was talking with another Russian girl, and I was just kinda listening for sounds and then all of a sudden I noticed they were saying a bunch of words I knew and she said she didn't understand something and I was like, ne panimaesh? (I don't know how to romanize that... "не панимаешь?") and she just looked at me and said "что?" and I repeated it and she had such a look on her face, haha. Apparently she had been talking about really personal things, and was freaked out and thought I understood everything, but really I just understood a few basic words. And tonight Rita (who is also in my Czech class) and Ilona (Czech) and a Robert (Polish) and I were talking in Czech for a while and it was pretty funny.
Okay, point is, I need to get back to studying or I'm going to die tomorrow. This test might murder me, but I'm going to go in as a freshwater shark with mind-knives and double-action lasers and try to murder it first. The problem is though that my mind-knives won't work if I don't keep studying for like another hour tonight, so.
I'm taking a hint from Heinrich Schliemann, the guy who discovered the historical site of what is now believed to be the ancient city of Troy, on how to learn languages; that is, writing in a journal in the language of the place where you are living. I kinda tried it last year, actually, with that other journal I started, welche_sprache, but that kinda fizzled. The biggest problem here is my Finnish is really bad still. But it's okay, I remember a year ago when I was struggling to learn numbers in Finnish, sitting at the table in my kitchen at Händelheim with all the spice jars we had and moving them around counting them in Finnish and having a really hard time with it. Now I'm able to do what I just did above, not that it's much, but still. I have a Finnish test tomorrow, I don't know how well I do, but I really hope I get 3/5 so I can take the continuation course.
It's really funny here, like, I speak English most of the time to get along with people, but I have Spanish and German lying dormant in my head and Czech, Russian, Finnish, and Italian are slowly creeping their ways in. I really scared Rita (who is from Russia) tonight when she was talking with another Russian girl, and I was just kinda listening for sounds and then all of a sudden I noticed they were saying a bunch of words I knew and she said she didn't understand something and I was like, ne panimaesh? (I don't know how to romanize that... "не панимаешь?") and she just looked at me and said "что?" and I repeated it and she had such a look on her face, haha. Apparently she had been talking about really personal things, and was freaked out and thought I understood everything, but really I just understood a few basic words. And tonight Rita (who is also in my Czech class) and Ilona (Czech) and a Robert (Polish) and I were talking in Czech for a while and it was pretty funny.
Okay, point is, I need to get back to studying or I'm going to die tomorrow. This test might murder me, but I'm going to go in as a freshwater shark with mind-knives and double-action lasers and try to murder it first. The problem is though that my mind-knives won't work if I don't keep studying for like another hour tonight, so.