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Sep. 15th, 2009 07:39 pmAfter four weeks of complaining about too much work I can't very well start to complain now that I'm feeling a bit useless and empty, without all that stress and responsibility, and fewer work hours, right?
It's nice, though, simply to be able to walk out at 2:30, not completely exhausted, and walk home in the afternoon sun.
Since I actually stick to my good resolutions once in a while (now about those morning runs... *sigh*) I've been walking to and from work a lot recently with my iPod, and it really does help with learning the new words, but it's still immensely frustrating how much repetition it takes before they actually stick in my brain. Some are quite easy, but the polysyllable verbs with prefixes and all the ж's and ш's and щ's, с's and з's, but at least after all this time I'm starting to hear the difference... I always thought I was reasonably intelligent (and not too bad with languages either), but I've kind of started to doubt that.
Three genders, six cases, adjectives and pronouns and even verb forms that change their endings accordingly. My brain can't really process all that, at least not as fast as I need it to. No one ever expected me to talk in Latin or Ancient Greek, and German I never had to consciously learn. A lot of prepositions that demand specific cases. Pronunciation shifting with the stress. Gah. Well, I said I wanted a challenge.
But what's really frustrating is that I'm starting to seriously wonder if I'll ever get to the stage where I'll be able to use Russian with the same ease as English, or at least something approaching that; reading books, understanding the nuances of the language, being able to express my thoughts...
Finished Sacrament, and I still have a lot of love for that book. And not only because it was one of the very, very few books that completely by accident came into my hands at a time where I really needed it. It's just beautiful.
Still vaguely inclined to write a Jack/Ianto CoE post, but most of the time I'm feeling completely written out TW-wise, and when I'm not, I'm obsessively scribbling thoughts in my notebook only to discover that I don't really have the energy to turn them into something coherent once I start typing them out.
Back to Russian, I guess.
It's nice, though, simply to be able to walk out at 2:30, not completely exhausted, and walk home in the afternoon sun.
Since I actually stick to my good resolutions once in a while (now about those morning runs... *sigh*) I've been walking to and from work a lot recently with my iPod, and it really does help with learning the new words, but it's still immensely frustrating how much repetition it takes before they actually stick in my brain. Some are quite easy, but the polysyllable verbs with prefixes and all the ж's and ш's and щ's, с's and з's, but at least after all this time I'm starting to hear the difference... I always thought I was reasonably intelligent (and not too bad with languages either), but I've kind of started to doubt that.
Three genders, six cases, adjectives and pronouns and even verb forms that change their endings accordingly. My brain can't really process all that, at least not as fast as I need it to. No one ever expected me to talk in Latin or Ancient Greek, and German I never had to consciously learn. A lot of prepositions that demand specific cases. Pronunciation shifting with the stress. Gah. Well, I said I wanted a challenge.
But what's really frustrating is that I'm starting to seriously wonder if I'll ever get to the stage where I'll be able to use Russian with the same ease as English, or at least something approaching that; reading books, understanding the nuances of the language, being able to express my thoughts...
Finished Sacrament, and I still have a lot of love for that book. And not only because it was one of the very, very few books that completely by accident came into my hands at a time where I really needed it. It's just beautiful.
Still vaguely inclined to write a Jack/Ianto CoE post, but most of the time I'm feeling completely written out TW-wise, and when I'm not, I'm obsessively scribbling thoughts in my notebook only to discover that I don't really have the energy to turn them into something coherent once I start typing them out.
Back to Russian, I guess.
