Re: Italian, Mandarin Chinese, and more or How Polyglots are Born
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:51 am
I'm overcoming my fatigue. Turns out, it's all about adaptation. I guess I'm adapting. But my typing has deteriorated, and now I spend too much time correcting typos, even in my native language. I wonder if that, too, has to do with all the languages I'm stuffing into my head.
For today's Mandarin lesson we were supposed to write an essay - 10 sentences - about our favourite item of clothing. Please... I never cared for clothes, and my groupmate, a guy of 16, cares for them even less. But I did it. had to go way beyond the primitive sentences we've been doing until now, so it's probably all wrong...
For German, we have reached the past tense. I remembered something from my brief encounter with Yiddish, but what stunned me was the similarities between German and Italian where different kinds of the past tense are concerned. Different groups indeed!
For today's Mandarin lesson we were supposed to write an essay - 10 sentences - about our favourite item of clothing. Please... I never cared for clothes, and my groupmate, a guy of 16, cares for them even less. But I did it. had to go way beyond the primitive sentences we've been doing until now, so it's probably all wrong...
For German, we have reached the past tense. I remembered something from my brief encounter with Yiddish, but what stunned me was the similarities between German and Italian where different kinds of the past tense are concerned. Different groups indeed!