still bored
Aug. 17th, 2005 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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!
