Just hanging around. . .

[ina_noranaya]

Once a month, I promised myself. Just once a month. How hard could it be?

I've finally picked up Robin Hobb's The Liveship Traders. I'm almost finished with Ship of Magic now. It is very enjoyable--the characters are varied and interesting, and the background of the Traders is especially fascinating, all those secrets. Etta and Amber are

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[andartha]

The Vienna Teng song that gets to me the most is "Passage". Most favourite song would be "Drought". Love all the others too ^_^

A good place to look up german words is here: http://dict.leo.org/
and if you'd like someone to practice your german on, drop me a line. ^_~

Btw, it's "...aber ich möchte es lernen". = "...I want to learn it" (Instead of "....I want to learn him"). Unlike a lot of other languages, we've got three grammatical genders: male, female and neutral. Language is neutral. Otherwise, kudos for that german sentence, it's a lot better than my first tries in kiswahili were ^_^

[ina_noranaya]

Thanks. ^_^; I forgot that the masculine and neuter pronouns are only the same in the dative, and that neuter is always the same in the nominative and accusative (which is not-so-incidentally just like Latin).

[andartha]

Lol. It's so good I speak german already, otherwise I'd be no good at it at all. Heck, I don't even remember what a dative is.... ^_^

[ina_noranaya]

Well, linguistics is my hobby, and it's one of those fields with a bunch of technical terms that just serve to confuse most people. But technical explanations, at least for me, are really good for understanding how something works.

(And when I think about English pronunciation, it makes me glad, even though I wish I were bilingual, that I can speak it natively. All those tiny changes. . . )

[andartha]

The knowledge of technical details serves you well. ^_^

Me, I always have some trouble with grammar, but I'm pretty good at vocabulary.

The expressive vocabulary is one of the things I adore about the english language. You can communicate fairly well with just a basic, easy-to-learn vocabulary, but if you feel like it you can express a world of nuances with the complete vocabulary. Must be because they got invaded by the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans....and have done trade with pretty everybody else too.