Elenia wrote:The internet situation sounds like a nightmare, I'm sorry. When I was in France, the internet got awfully slow after eleven, as a general rule. There were no data restrictions, and no real reason for it to happen. It just did, and sometimes would stop completely.
And I haven't even mentioned that I have to turn the router off and on again throughout the day, because sometimes it just doesn't keep the connection open or becomes so slow, that you don't even know whether there still is a connection or not. Some days this happens all the time while on others the connection is quite stable.
It's just awful, but I more or less got used to it, as weird as this sounds.
Elenia wrote:I don't think anyone who has ever met me would think of me as 'quiet'. And I have the same problem, it took my mum years to realise I was shy, even though I told her I am. I'm learning to just let the silence be though. Slowly, by I am learning!
I guess my parents still haven't understood this. When I meet them I'm talking a lot, and so it has been since my childhood. They never really understood the complains in kindergarten or school by my teachers that I didn't really say anything.
It took me quite some time to realise that my "talking too much" is quite often just a compensation of another person not talking enough or myself being nervous or unbalanced.
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Yesterday I tried to speak Spanish again wih a native! I got (again) credits for my pronounciation, though otherwise speaking was still pretty much on a beginner's level. But as I remember from Finnish, I will just need practice and then it should improve very fast, because the knowledge is already there. At least I start looking out for conversation now and really try to say something in Spanish, instead of still continuing with German or English only. So it seems I am now "ready" to practice speaking outside a course.
Other students have been discussing how to continue with Spanish, whether we should try to make the university open our own follow-up course, as the next level/next type of course is not what some of us are looking for.
Next monday we'll have the exam and then there is one lesson left on friday and the course is over again. (So now three more times including the exam.)