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[yuuago]

Jeg er veldig søvnig. Hvorfor er det, jeg forstår ikke, kanskje det er for varm i dag.

Liker jeg Duolingo. Når kompleter jeg alt norsk kursen, jeg vil gjøre fransk kursen. Jeg har en ordbok og grammatiskbok på fransk og jeg vil lese det. Fransk er mer kjent enn eller språker.

Jeg ønsker å lærer polsk språk også. Kanskje jeg ville gjøre polsk språk kursen efter fransk kursen.



For the longest time I had an absolute hateboner for the French language. As far as I can tell, this is pretty typical of people in western Canada, especially if they happened to go to a school where the FLS teaching was sub-par and it happened to be the only second-language option.

So... I nursed that hateboner for years, but also romance languages don't get along very well with me for some reason, and it was just a bad scene. Now, though, I'm starting to feel better about French.

Not that I like it, exactly! It's just that I've had time to build up some positive associations with it, due to Certain Individuals, and taking an interest in particular parts of history, and of course fandom-related reasons I suppose (and by fandom I mean Valiant Hearts, of course). And I suppose that trip to Belgium certainly didn't hurt - Belgian French sounds so cute!

Anyway, I was thinking that when I finish the Norwegian course on Duolingo, I'll try to do the French course, while supplementing with textbooks etc. I still have all my books, and it's easier to re-learn it than it would be to start something entirely new, since I do remember some things, just not very well. I'm not intending to drop Norwegian; I think it's entirely possible to do both.

... And I keep mentally mixing them together into some unholy French-Norwegian mass half the time anyway, so it's not much of a stretch.

Also kind of want to do Polish after French, but that's so far off that I'm not considering it all that seriously at this time, really.



As for Norwegian, I keep frustrating myself a little bit, because there are a lot of little things that slip my mind that I should have down by now. Things like definites, and object pronouns, and fiddly little things like that. And I should have a better handle on present vs past by now, but I don't.

I'm not sure what to do about that. I guess all I can do is keep chipping away at it until it sticks.

... While I've considered it before, it occurs to me now that I might have an easier time with this if my command of English were better. My grammar is absolutely atrocious. Well, I've seen worse, so maybe "atrocious" isn't the right word, but it IS pretty bad. And I never learned a lot of the terms for how to talk about it, either. It would be helpful if I had an understanding of that.

Just watch, I'll say, "I will look into this", and then I won't do it. This always happens. But to be fair, it's hard to even set aside time to work on Norwegian, so.

SIGH. LANGUAGES ARE HARD.

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[aguacatillo]

LANGUAGES ARE HARD BUT WORTH IT right? Nah but I’m glad you get along with duolingo and are even thinking of picking the french thing back up εღ(◕‿◕❀) (how do you say hateboner på norsk, anyway?)

[yuuago]

<3 To be true, Duolingo isn't the most useful, but I think that if I keep using it, it might help me memorize some of the fiddly things that are giving me trouble.

Honestly, French would not ordinarily be my first choice, but... I do already have the books, and I do know a little, and I do want to go to Paris to visit my friend there and French would probably be useful, so - why not. :)

"Boner" does not seem to have a direct translation, and "ereksjon" doesn't have the right flow, so I propose: hatkuk. Hate (noun) + Cock (vulgar).

There might exist an actual word meaning the same thing but I'm too embarrassed to ask someone about it. xD

[aguacatillo]

I give the site props for getting me to just plain stick with some near-daily practise, whatever perfections the practise may fall short of, when nothing else this year has got me studying half as reliably.

Whatever you end up trying next, it must help the studying go down rather easier to have a visit in mind, why not indeed.

And ooh, thanks for coming up with a real answer '3' Hatkuk has a nice ring to it.

[st_aurafina]

Languages are so weird! And I'm the total opposite - I go much better with a romance language than with anything else. I am trying Swedish on Duolingo and it's super weird not to have that back-of-the-brain understanding that I get from Italian and French. But cool. Languages are so cool.

[yuuago]

So cool! But so hard.
Ah it makes sense that for someone with a background in romance language, Swedish would be challenging. Haa, I would offer to practice with you but though Svensk and Norsk are mutually intelligible, for learners they're not quiiiiite close enough. ;p

[yohjideranged]

a lot of little things that slip my mind that I should have down by now.

I do this with my Japanese a lot. And sometimes I just plain overthink it to where it doesn't make the sense it used to a few days ago.

[yuuago]

A lot of it comes down to memorizing, right? I've never been good at that. x_x