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verbicideMy French lesson yesterday was good, but hard. We worked on familial relationships (le pere, la mere, etc). And that went fine. I mostly remembered those from high school/college. But numbers. OY. Numbers are freaking hard.
My instructor is very kind. And yet, I sat there, completely paralyzed, slowly and painstakingly figuring out the numbers. Mostly, I have been forming sentences easily with words I know, or words I'm learning. It's all been vocabulary and conjugating verbs.
But numbers. It's so hard. I would stare at the number (say, 2,984,875) and just agonizingly do a mental hunt for the words for million, mille, cent, etc. (Deux million, neuf cent quatre-vingt quatre mille, huit cent soixante-quinze --I think. I don't have my book here.) And I would start to stutter. And have to pause and just feel so frozen.
I thought I'd done terribly, but my instructor was very encouraging and said she thought I was picking it up just fine. She's so nice.
I really need to focus on my homework tonight, because I clearly need a lot of practice there. I was getting a little better at it toward the end of the lesson, but it was still so hard.
In other French news, I've dorkily switched my gmail interface to French, and I now speak exclusively in French to Monsieur Hobbes.
I need more time to spend on French!
My instructor is very kind. And yet, I sat there, completely paralyzed, slowly and painstakingly figuring out the numbers. Mostly, I have been forming sentences easily with words I know, or words I'm learning. It's all been vocabulary and conjugating verbs.
But numbers. It's so hard. I would stare at the number (say, 2,984,875) and just agonizingly do a mental hunt for the words for million, mille, cent, etc. (Deux million, neuf cent quatre-vingt quatre mille, huit cent soixante-quinze --I think. I don't have my book here.) And I would start to stutter. And have to pause and just feel so frozen.
I thought I'd done terribly, but my instructor was very encouraging and said she thought I was picking it up just fine. She's so nice.
I really need to focus on my homework tonight, because I clearly need a lot of practice there. I was getting a little better at it toward the end of the lesson, but it was still so hard.
In other French news, I've dorkily switched my gmail interface to French, and I now speak exclusively in French to Monsieur Hobbes.
I need more time to spend on French!
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Date: 2005-08-18 01:34 am (UTC)I'm French Canadian.
BTW, welcome to
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Date: 2005-08-18 02:37 am (UTC)Whew!
Congratulations on your twins! They, and Connor are absolutely beautiful :)
And thanks for letting me join
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Date: 2005-08-18 02:08 am (UTC)Hey! I just found your comment on my months old post re: my new computer.
I musta missed it.
What's up? I am happy to have found you again! Everyone is on LJ, huh?
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Date: 2005-08-18 02:35 am (UTC)It's like rasfwrj without the icky Septemberites, eh?
I'm really excited you've kept up with your artwork. And congratulations on all the great accomplishments you've made since the days of yore.
We need to get The Loy on here. If he isn't already :)