Update
Well I haven't updated in a very long while, maybe it is just that I didn't have anything to say ;P
Yesterday I went to the CVO (an adult school) to get inscribed for level 5 of Dutch, since I didn't find a job this summer and doesn't seem likely (I am starting to consider going freelance, even with the high taxes you have to pay here...), I better use my time to finish my language course. I also decided to get inscribed in French (OUI HAHAH, me speaking French...) I did that today. It is not free as Dutch is, but still very very cheap (62€ per level) and pretty intensive (you can do two levels per year, the intensive Dutch courses are 4 levels per year). I will do Dutch in the morning starting at 9:00, 3 hours x 4 days a week, and French in the evening, starting at 18:30 x 2 days a week; so I guess both classes will keep me pretty busy, but I do not intend to stop working in the workshop, since I love it ;P
I expect to find French much easier than Dutch, since I can already read most of it and is more similar to Catalan, I remember looking at Dutch text in the past and it all seemed complete gibberish to me... so this should be easier, but man, the pronounciation scares me shitless, heh. When I think that this is the 5th language I am gonna start to speak it sounds a bit weird, I wouldn't have expected this from myself, hah.
I don't know if I mentioned it here before, Pim found a job, first a summer job that he just finished and tomorrow he starts with another doing those weird programming things he does. He has choosen the right profession it seems...
Oh and he is thinking of getting inscribed to Spanish classes, too. I wonder if I insisted too much ;P
Yesterday I went to the CVO (an adult school) to get inscribed for level 5 of Dutch, since I didn't find a job this summer and doesn't seem likely (I am starting to consider going freelance, even with the high taxes you have to pay here...), I better use my time to finish my language course. I also decided to get inscribed in French (OUI HAHAH, me speaking French...) I did that today. It is not free as Dutch is, but still very very cheap (62€ per level) and pretty intensive (you can do two levels per year, the intensive Dutch courses are 4 levels per year). I will do Dutch in the morning starting at 9:00, 3 hours x 4 days a week, and French in the evening, starting at 18:30 x 2 days a week; so I guess both classes will keep me pretty busy, but I do not intend to stop working in the workshop, since I love it ;P
I expect to find French much easier than Dutch, since I can already read most of it and is more similar to Catalan, I remember looking at Dutch text in the past and it all seemed complete gibberish to me... so this should be easier, but man, the pronounciation scares me shitless, heh. When I think that this is the 5th language I am gonna start to speak it sounds a bit weird, I wouldn't have expected this from myself, hah.
I don't know if I mentioned it here before, Pim found a job, first a summer job that he just finished and tomorrow he starts with another doing those weird programming things he does. He has choosen the right profession it seems...
Oh and he is thinking of getting inscribed to Spanish classes, too. I wonder if I insisted too much ;P