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This fall I finished the third out of the five of the Dutch classes I need to be fluent, and started the fourth, but realized it might involve a nervous breakdown, and the pride of being almost-fluent in a new language in a year (though I was never a language-person before) was not worth it.
So I decided to go back to America, and quit Niveau 4. I'm only back for a few weeks, then will resume in the spring (4 and 5 - unless it's too much). It's been very good. I flew into New York, the cheapest ticket and some of the oldest friends - it was usually too much for me in the past, but for the first time (besides a few days with Wim once which might have been nice anywhere), I loved it. I got to introduce two people I love who I hope will love each other in some way, and talked a lot to people who have known me more than a year, in NYC, Philadelphia and here. Working-drawing now - more on that soon. Yes.
Oddly, I've found myself making grammatical mistakes in English more often in the last few weeks, after quitting, though I realized the Dutch was helping my formal knowledge of grammar in general. I am not worried now, about much, out of choice.
So I decided to go back to America, and quit Niveau 4. I'm only back for a few weeks, then will resume in the spring (4 and 5 - unless it's too much). It's been very good. I flew into New York, the cheapest ticket and some of the oldest friends - it was usually too much for me in the past, but for the first time (besides a few days with Wim once which might have been nice anywhere), I loved it. I got to introduce two people I love who I hope will love each other in some way, and talked a lot to people who have known me more than a year, in NYC, Philadelphia and here. Working-drawing now - more on that soon. Yes.
Oddly, I've found myself making grammatical mistakes in English more often in the last few weeks, after quitting, though I realized the Dutch was helping my formal knowledge of grammar in general. I am not worried now, about much, out of choice.