More mind tricksDid some garden work and needed supplies so popped out to the jaw droppingly expensive K-Rauta. Anyway at the kassa the lady asks something in a way I have never been asked before, so I answer in English a bit on auto pilot and she continues in Finnish. Maybe "thats it" can sound a bit like "se siit"
That's interesting because I realized I actually don't even usually fully understand English speakers, its like my brain takes a best guess and I don't even realize the brain is filling in the blanks with anticipated speech.
Another mind bender:- I was listening to the CI course and I heard "käytetää", and of course I know the word and the grammar of the passive form, but yet, how can I explain this....I never internalized it? If it came up in text I'd be able to read it but in audio my ears would not give it the explanation my brain knows.
And as the proverb
for the want of a nail goes understanding a paragraph can depend on sentence can depend on a single word, which in turn can depend on a single letter. And so the meaning of the speech was unlocked.
Yet this was all heavily grammar dependent. Ironic that I have made a little breakthrough on a word not with CI, but with grammar on a CI course. A combination of both, I
needed both.
And the CI course slates grammar, with some misleading arguments, that's how it sells the course "its not your fault" type thing. (I'll get into that later with my review piece).
