Language Ventures
All the twitter convo last night, and I think the night before too, got me onto a new venture; relearning French. This was actually something I wanted to do on and off for awhile, and what stopped me was a.)not having anyone else to speak it with and b.)afraid that I'd have a hard time picking it up again. It was mandatory in grade school, I started in grade 4 and they started my sister in grade 1, and was mandatory only in grade 9 of high school. I dropped it after that because I was getting sick of it, mostly due to my teacher. She was nice, but required us to speak french in class all the time. Which may sound like a 'duh' thing I know, but I didn't come from a french immersion school like many other classmates and we certainly didn't speak french all the time in french class. That kind of soured me early in the semester. A few years after that though I kind of wished I had kept going. So now I figure 'hey, why not'. I looked at some free language learning sites (surprised I managed to find not one but three!) and I haven't forgotten as much as I thought. I recognize a lot of words and phrases, my pronunciation and accent haven't gone anywhere, my biggest challenges will likely be memorization and grammar. Right now I can't construct a sentence to save my life, but I can repeat one with really great accuracy. I always sort of struggled with grammar though, especially with the more complex verbs. I could do it, it just took a bit longer. So I'm going to do it, and perhaps have some fluency by the end of the year. I still have no one to speak french with, so I thought hey what the hell - translate G's blogs into french. I don't know if anyone's doing it, but it's more about practice than anything. I think maybe I'll make a seperate journal or comm or something to post them in. The idea of cluttering up my blog with too many things makes me unsettled. I'm a little obsessed with organization.
Which you'd never be able to guess if you were to look at my Documents folder right now. It looks like folders exploded, it's such a mess. Picture folders, animations, music and Gackt pictures all over the place. And many of my video files must be renamed so I will actually know what they are and not be like o_o looking at them. My music folder is intact, thank goodness. My G pictures and folders being everywhere is bad enough. Sorting them by year is HARD. Still I try. This computer can take it, being the fast little thing it is. Not like the old one that was like 'DEFRAG!!!' all the time. I can't complain though, that comp was a trooper. Survived five years of World of Warcraft, yes it did. Alas, patch 3.I-don't-remember-the-number was too much for it.
It came today!!! FedEx is so much fun for deliveries. I was tracking it the whole time it was in transit. It went from Yokohama to Narita, then to Anchorage AK, then 40min away in Mississauga...then down to Indianapolis, IN. Yes. My package went from Alaska to Canada and proceeded to do a nosedive back into the US. Hell if I know why. It did come back up to Mississauga and then made its way to me though, but seeing that was bizzare. I'm glad it's here though, I love it! And Mind Forest in english I LOVE. It was worth waiting to hear it ^_^ Now the cd can join everything else on my shelf.
I should write, I want to restart that untitled fic because I'm very much hating it right now. I wonder if I'm biting off more than I can chew with the french translating thing. Ah who cares. Nothing ventured nothing gained :D Photo post later, have baby pics to share!
Which you'd never be able to guess if you were to look at my Documents folder right now. It looks like folders exploded, it's such a mess. Picture folders, animations, music and Gackt pictures all over the place. And many of my video files must be renamed so I will actually know what they are and not be like o_o looking at them. My music folder is intact, thank goodness. My G pictures and folders being everywhere is bad enough. Sorting them by year is HARD. Still I try. This computer can take it, being the fast little thing it is. Not like the old one that was like 'DEFRAG!!!' all the time. I can't complain though, that comp was a trooper. Survived five years of World of Warcraft, yes it did. Alas, patch 3.I-don't-remember-the-number was too much for it.
It came today!!! FedEx is so much fun for deliveries. I was tracking it the whole time it was in transit. It went from Yokohama to Narita, then to Anchorage AK, then 40min away in Mississauga...then down to Indianapolis, IN. Yes. My package went from Alaska to Canada and proceeded to do a nosedive back into the US. Hell if I know why. It did come back up to Mississauga and then made its way to me though, but seeing that was bizzare. I'm glad it's here though, I love it! And Mind Forest in english I LOVE. It was worth waiting to hear it ^_^ Now the cd can join everything else on my shelf.
I should write, I want to restart that untitled fic because I'm very much hating it right now. I wonder if I'm biting off more than I can chew with the french translating thing. Ah who cares. Nothing ventured nothing gained :D Photo post later, have baby pics to share!