Waiting for Uni to start
Uni starts on Monday 22nd September.
I'm terrified.
Mostly because I'll be with a group of people, all of whom will be learning German and, in all likelihood, will be much better at German than me.
I managed an A in my german A-level, and you would think this would bolster my confidence but it doesn't. Don't get me wrong, I hate to boast, but I've always been good in german, it made much more sense to me than french or indeed what litle latin I know, but last year I did a three week course in Braunschweig which is in the north..er..west of Germany. i was with 11 other students from all over the UK and 10 of those went to specialised language schools.
This is what I'm afraid of. I'm going to turn up on my first day and they'll all know a hell of a lot more than me. My teacher at college, wonderful as he was, had to dumb it down slightly for those in our class who were less able, so when it comes to linguistical jargon, I'm somewhat in the dark. Nomonative, (spelling?), accusative, genetice and dative is as far as I go...and that was only through personal study. There were also certain tenses like the pluperfect subjunctive, which I only did in extra lessons when the rest of the class wasn't there and I don't recall that the others ever learnt it.
So I'm looking to univeristy with mixed feelings, I can't wait for the independance of living on my own, but I'm dreading the actual course, which is sad, because german is my favourite language.
In other news, I need to sort out this style, I quite like it, but I realised that it doesn't show properly on some screens.
Like this one, I'm in the library and it's a signifcantly smaller monitor than the one at home and consequently you need to scroll across to see everything. I should start making them for 800*600 screens or whatever this is.
Note to LJ friends - Can you see the whole journal properly?
*looks at watch* Hmm. Time to go to the part time job of doom...
I'm terrified.
Mostly because I'll be with a group of people, all of whom will be learning German and, in all likelihood, will be much better at German than me.
I managed an A in my german A-level, and you would think this would bolster my confidence but it doesn't. Don't get me wrong, I hate to boast, but I've always been good in german, it made much more sense to me than french or indeed what litle latin I know, but last year I did a three week course in Braunschweig which is in the north..er..west of Germany. i was with 11 other students from all over the UK and 10 of those went to specialised language schools.
This is what I'm afraid of. I'm going to turn up on my first day and they'll all know a hell of a lot more than me. My teacher at college, wonderful as he was, had to dumb it down slightly for those in our class who were less able, so when it comes to linguistical jargon, I'm somewhat in the dark. Nomonative, (spelling?), accusative, genetice and dative is as far as I go...and that was only through personal study. There were also certain tenses like the pluperfect subjunctive, which I only did in extra lessons when the rest of the class wasn't there and I don't recall that the others ever learnt it.
So I'm looking to univeristy with mixed feelings, I can't wait for the independance of living on my own, but I'm dreading the actual course, which is sad, because german is my favourite language.
In other news, I need to sort out this style, I quite like it, but I realised that it doesn't show properly on some screens.
Like this one, I'm in the library and it's a signifcantly smaller monitor than the one at home and consequently you need to scroll across to see everything. I should start making them for 800*600 screens or whatever this is.
Note to LJ friends - Can you see the whole journal properly?
*looks at watch* Hmm. Time to go to the part time job of doom...