Re: Back to the roots and water them with coffee
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:34 am
I think your sister is lucky to have you!
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Cavesa wrote:My previous post got erased due to an internet connection problem So, this will be like two in one, but shorter.
Thanks a lot for your support! It means a lot and helps.
We got a new secondary tutor. She is good, I think I wrote about her already. She really makes her speak and accepts being a part of a project. So, no waste of time on things I can do or things not relevant at all to the exam. The only "flaw": she is not scary enough to practice the exam stress.
One week left.
dictionary.com wrote:root
verb (used without object)
to encourage a team or contestant by cheering or applauding enthusiastically.
to lend moral support:
The whole group will be rooting for him.
Incidentally, I'm amused by how Czech people like to talk about cases in languages with numbers. You hardly see anyone else discuss German or Latin (or Czech!) this way while speaking English, besides Czechs.Cavesa wrote:But then the teacher gave her an "easy" question: to list the prepositions with the 3rd case. WTF? I am all for conjugations or declinations, as those are useful patterns to practice. But memorising and parroting such lists of nonsense, that's harmful. Especially as so many prepositions are with either the 3rd or 4th case (yes, we already discussed the problem of the case terminology a few pages earlier).
I also find this interesting because you'd think subject vs. object would be easier for a native speaker of a language with nominative vs. accusative case to understand, but it looks like I should know better.And the mental block at the very mention of stuff like "which noun is the object and which one the subject?" is making my work with my sister harder right now. It is not an absolute block, she is capable of thinking logically and her German is improving thanks to the logic. But I think the worse moments triggered by this are a sort of pavlovian reflex "heh, a basic grammar terminology word, I should resist and refuse to think!".
Querneus wrote:Incidentally, I'm amused by how Czech people like to talk about cases in languages with numbers. You hardly see anyone else discuss German or Latin (or Czech!) this way while speaking English, besides Czechs.Cavesa wrote:But then the teacher gave her an "easy" question: to list the prepositions with the 3rd case. WTF? I am all for conjugations or declinations, as those are useful patterns to practice. But memorising and parroting such lists of nonsense, that's harmful. Especially as so many prepositions are with either the 3rd or 4th case (yes, we already discussed the problem of the case terminology a few pages earlier).
I also find this interesting because you'd think subject vs. object would be easier for a native speaker of a language with nominative vs. accusative case to understand, but it looks like I should know better.And the mental block at the very mention of stuff like "which noun is the object and which one the subject?" is making my work with my sister harder right now. It is not an absolute block, she is capable of thinking logically and her German is improving thanks to the logic. But I think the worse moments triggered by this are a sort of pavlovian reflex "heh, a basic grammar terminology word, I should resist and refuse to think!".