Grammar? What's that? Can you eat it?
"Grammar is a dish best served having carefully read the instructions over and over until you know them by heart."
^Wald said this a week or two ago when we were talking, and I decided that I wanted to save it for reference. Since it's true.
But argh, languages. I have been neglecting Norwegian so badly over the last couple of months, ever since I came back from Europe really, and I really should not be doing that. For a while I was going pretty well with it, but then things just started to slide. Happens every time.
Maybe if I took a grammar-first approach, maybe that would work. It's something I haven't tried yet, at least. And I do have a pretty good grammar book, so maybe I could make some progress that way.
I also need to find something easy to read. I have those parallel-text editions of Hauge, but it's entirely not the kind of thing that a beginner like me should be reading. Anything in Nynorsk is just a terrible idea. Bokmål is what I should be learning. (Why the hell did I decide to learn the Scandinavian language with two writing systems?! Times like this I find myself thinking maybe I should have decided on Swedish instead....)
One thing that I know for sure, though, is that this would be a hellofalot easier if my family didn't discourage me from learning it. Or any language, really.
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^Wald said this a week or two ago when we were talking, and I decided that I wanted to save it for reference. Since it's true.
But argh, languages. I have been neglecting Norwegian so badly over the last couple of months, ever since I came back from Europe really, and I really should not be doing that. For a while I was going pretty well with it, but then things just started to slide. Happens every time.
Maybe if I took a grammar-first approach, maybe that would work. It's something I haven't tried yet, at least. And I do have a pretty good grammar book, so maybe I could make some progress that way.
I also need to find something easy to read. I have those parallel-text editions of Hauge, but it's entirely not the kind of thing that a beginner like me should be reading. Anything in Nynorsk is just a terrible idea. Bokmål is what I should be learning. (Why the hell did I decide to learn the Scandinavian language with two writing systems?! Times like this I find myself thinking maybe I should have decided on Swedish instead....)
One thing that I know for sure, though, is that this would be a hellofalot easier if my family didn't discourage me from learning it. Or any language, really.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3358368.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.