My second conversation class started yesterday and it rocked! I was afraid classes would be cancelled because of the Francophonia thing (an event celebrating the French language). Loads of people were about, French hosts and students being silly and loud, the place was a-buzz with activity and excitement. I deftly wove my way through the [...]
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March 20, 2007
Au bord de la panique
Well I haven’t been very chatty because I’ve been going crazy over my frenchifying. I need to do so much work. Granted I have time on my side but there’s so much ground to cover. I already do a lot of news reading about every subject I can force myself to be interested in. I need to [...]
January 20, 2007
The French starts
I attended my French class this afternoon after lunchtime. I got off to a laughably shaky start since I haven’t been speaking the language seriously for years. That’s how big a procrastinator and lazyass I am. The class did me good though, it was wonderful and now I’m dizzy with excitement about getting started, so [...]
January 16, 2007
A book: Another attempt at studying harder (not its title)
The title is actually The Ultimate French Review and Practice and I found it in Kinokuniya in KL and although it was quite expensive, I got it anyway because we don’t have it here. I’ve leafed through it and so far it looks friendly but I know it’s going to be difficult working it into my schedule. [...]
January 3, 2007
Un cours français
I enrolled myself in a french conversation class earlier. I was supposed to enroll in another one but the weekday class that I wanted wasn’t being offered in the morning. So I used the extra cash to pay for my credit card bill. Oh I know, I’m so responsible. I haven’t even received the statement [...]
November 23, 2006
German update: Deutschlernen ist echt schwer!
So I’ve been taking German classes once a week for over a year now and I still can’t speak it. I feel shitty admitting it but it’s true.
One day, our ever patient professor was trying to teach us accusative reflexive verbs and dative reflexive verbs and the darum, darauf, worüber stuff (absofuckinglutely no equivalent in [...]
October 23, 2006
A book: Streetwise French Dictionary / Thesaurus
I bought this over the weekend and started reading it straight away. So far, so good. This is my first slang dictionary and it’s exciting. I don’t know why it’s taken me this long to develop a proper interest in the language, considering the fact that I studied it in university. I can’t remember exactly [...]
August 17, 2006
Got the sehr gut
Haha! I’m lovely. I DID get the sehr gut (explained in the last bit of this entry). Hah I had nothing to worry about after all.
This morning, I set off from home earlier than usual so I could go over to the german institute before work and enroll myself in the next class. Well not [...]
August 12, 2006
Der Aufschnitt, das Brot und die Bücher
My classmates and I survived! The final exam was this morning and for once I arrived on time. Greg, our teacher, made us do so many things! Well to be fair, he had nothing to do with the exam items, but still he handed the papers out. Grammar questions, listening and reading comprehension items, we [...]
July 13, 2006
A little bit of patience.
I have never been patient and am too impatient to try to learn how to be. But I need to be. Now.
It is 2 am and I’ve been trying to send a design draft for about half an hour now. Who invented dial-up anyway? It’s a big tease with no sign of release coming anytime [...]
