mardi, décembre 02, 2003 The whole process is a rather painful one. Vocabulary, grammar - everything has to be learnt from scratch. What's a verb? A noun? Conjugate the verb? For the different pronouns? In simple past tense? Or imperfect past tense? Future tense? They're all different? Every noun has a gender? Be glad this isn't German, which has a neuter gender? Change the gender of the article when the noun in question begins with a vowel, or an "h"? If you conjugate the first verb, then the second verb can stay in its infinitive form? With exceptions?It's getting tougher and tougher, and today I was practically on the verge of tears when the teacher babbled on for half an hour with me understanding perhaps a grand total of two words she said at best. Tiredness, sheer mental exertion, plus the utter, utter failure to comprehend... it's like chinese all over again. This is one of the hardest points in the course, a classmate commented, as we waited for the lift down, after the lesson. If you get past this phase, it should get a little easier. It's the do-or-don't period, I suppose. Already today, I undertook a serious contemplation on the MRT journey to Newton regarding my class. Continue and suffer, or free up the two weekday nights that this course takes up? I really want to continue, but this sort of psyche-battering twice every week gets to you. (Or maybe it's just me, I'm a wimp.) Add to the fact that it's wholly self-inflicted... makes you wonder whether why you're doing it is worth it. Nobody said dreams were easy to follow. I hope I'll get there. I hope it will be worth it. [Pardon My French] |
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