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Le singe est sur la branche
11/29/2006 11:45 am Last Read: |
I've started learning French online. No, not that kind of French. Languages wasn't very big where I grew up. You were to learn German, German, or German. Who cares that there were all these Irish, Norwegians, and Swedish around there? They didn't count! I am not a big fan of the German language (though I seem to have become a poster girl for German men...must be the hips). In any event, I found out a year or two ago I have a gift for languages, although I have no time to study extensively - currently I seem to have nothing BUT time, but this isn't a good thing. It means I'm not selling any bloody jewelry. But I digress. I have a photographic memory for words, music, and so forth. If I hear a word that interests me in another language, or a song's lyrics, it just sort of sticks. As a result, I've got loads of languages bashing about in my head with no English words to join it to, and no idea where the hell I picked it up in the first place (at one point I knew how to say "We have been fucked by God" in Finnish...probably due to hanging around sailors in Seattle; try and explain THAT one at a cocktail party). So, recently I've decided I wanted to learn French. I was studying Dutch before but I've heard from Dutch friends and my ex - who resides in Amsterdam at the moment - the Dutch refuse to actually speak Dutch to anyone who isn't native. In short, it's bloody useless and not worth knowing. But since it seems the French would rather speak French and do general French things (and don't you DARE start on that xenophobic "We hate the French" stuff in my journal, say thankya, blimey, melting pot, everyone melt a bit and move it around, just FUCKING MOVE IT AROUND) I may as well give it a go, as I believe it's the second most used language in the world, though I think it ties with Spanish. I take an unusual approach of learning, which borrows a bit from how Jackie Chan learned English; one, I watch English movies in French subtitles - I want to be able to say "Why is all the rum gone?" in French. Why this will be useful I don't know, but it SOUNDS cool. Secondly, Eddie Izzard doing his standup routines in French. This is possibly a dance with death as he curses so often, I'm sure my sentences will be full of expletives and just. Plain. Bollocks. Ou est le singe? Anyway, it seems to be sticking. Pronounciation is still a bugger as I can't seem to produce the phlematic "i'm choking on my own tongue" quality French has in some words, but I'm getting there. At least I can get decent enough I'll know when someone is insulting me in my presence in French and can give a snappy retort. |
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11/29/2006 4:17 pm |
Hey, even if you don't learn anything, watching Eddy Izzard is always time well spent!
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11/30/2006 4:01 pm |
I studoed French for 5 years in school...I still don't know it. I have phrases in a few other languages! I have a copy of The Shining in Dutch that a friend brought me back from Europe.....I still loook at it and wonder Trooper WTF were you thinking? *hugs and giggles* L Half of writing history is hiding the truth. - Malcom Reynolds
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