Light of My Life, Fire of My Loins

[weird_number]

Title: Light of My Life, Fire of My Loins

Author: weird_number

Rating/Warnings: Violence

Summary: America and Russia spend the Cold War bombing themselves, over and over again, but never each other. France and England want nuclear weapons too, but they don't want to test on themselves, no, never that. Nuclear testing through the ages.

Comments

[aureliuszvektor]

Nah, my mom found a local woman who was doing a sort of out-of-house French program--sort of half baby-sitting, half teaching everyone French, since she wanted to teach her kids and build up a community of French-speaking children. We had to move almost immediately after that, but somehow my mother kept finding after-school programs until I could finally take it in high school.

The only problem with all this is that I'll automatically swap sometimes when I'm writing or speaking, especially if I'm really tired or it's a concept that feels more "familiar" in French >_> But, I guess that's a small price to pay.

Ah, Candide! How did you like it? I had to read it in class, too, and I slowly grew to enjoy it after a long time of, well, not enjoying it much >_> I swear, we had a really bizarre French teacher, who was really into French Passion and made us read all of this racy material for her class. There were so many awkward silences, often filled in with her explaining, rather loudly, just what "he was doing to her at that moment." But, at least it always made the course interesting.

[weird_number]

That's very cool! :)

Yeah, I have the same issue with Chinese -- sometimes there will be this word that's more concise or that I'm more used to in Chinese and I'll blank on the English phrase.

Heh, I didn't particularly like it when we read it in class either, and it also had to do with my French teacher (yours sounds hilarious though!). She was very strongly opinionated, and anyone who didn't share her opinion on things was ostracized, so I didn't like the class at all. College French is by far better. I reread Candide later (the English translation) and enjoyed it much more though. :P

[aureliuszvektor]

Oh, you speak Chinese! That's a really amazing language. I can say... er... "chopsticks," "how are you," "okay," "no," and "my dog is death." Yeah, I'm pretty much useless. Doesn't keep me from wishing greedily, though. Can you read in it, or only speak? I've always thought "Gosh, I'd like to learn Chinese so I can read Journey to the West," but no dice thus far. I'm twenty-one and can fit my sum knowledge into one line of an LJ comment >_>

And I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying College French. I always want to tell more people to study it, but I feel a bit bad. Wishing the plus-que-parfait on anyone else seems pretty cruel.

[weird_number]

I'm sure if you took Chinese it would be a lot of fun! :) I can read and speak Chinese, courtesy of my mother, mostly. (I think if my only experience were at Chinese school, I would've hated it like everyone else). I'm actually taking a Chinese lit class right now, and it's quite interesting (I have an over-interest in languages, haha).

Oh yes, the plus-que-parfait is quite the pain! At least French is easy in the beginning though...but then it quickly turns into false advertising. :P

[aureliuszvektor]

Bah, I meant the subjonctif. Damned French, with its confusing conjugation names. Definitely false advertising. Enormous amounts of false advertising.

I'll keep that in mind about the Chinese, then, because it would be too sad to give up right now. Thanks for the motivation!