(no subject)

[muckefuck]

The better part of an hour constructing a simple Somali sentence and I'm still not sure I got the grammar right. Osage was much easier than this! Seems like I never do much with languages any more, which is okay--my fancies come and go--except that it feels harder than it used to be. Or maybe that's just me idealising the past and forgetting how many hours I would spend struggling to grasp a point of grammar which seems self-explanatory now.

I finally got an upgrade to my PC at work. I hope I didn't frighten the Jeremy Freedman look-alike who took care of it, but it was a bit upsetting to log in and find all my personal files gone, even if I knew they were all backed up. (Turns out a reboot was all that was required to resync the pathnames or whatever.) It's about time, because the sluggishness on the old machine was really starting to wear on me.

Comments

[anicca-anicca2.livejournal.com]

except that it feels harder than it used to be.

I have the same feeling, and it's driving me bonkers. And I'm not even studying anything new or difficult. I revise French and Italian, and I seem to grow more insecure all the time. It must be this time in life, having accumulated lots of facts etc. When I studied those things in school, it was a build-up of information, and I kind of sucked it in and it stuck. Now it seems like digging in a big container of information, and I can't remember what's right and wrong. It really bothers me.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Seems like I can't say or write anything in German any more without having to check the gender assignment of at least one of the nouns. The only consolation is that, most of the time, I get it right, but that doesn't make my failures less frustrating.