Sometimes stubbornness can be a good thing. No, really! Maybe not so much in your average preschooler, but it has its merits.
Like me. I’m stubborn. Tenacious. Don’t tell me I can’t do something, because it pisses me off and makes me try harder. After I sulk and lick my wounds for a while, anyway.
Today I start yet another second language training course. Rather than being in a class of six people for four hours a week, it’s just me and the teacher for six hours a day, twice a week, until the middle of May.
Those of you who’ve been around for a while will recall that I recently passed both my reading and writing exams with flying colours, and proceeded to fail my oral exam. The week I took the test was perhaps one of the most stressful of the year for me. I should have delayed it, but hind sight is always clearer, isn’t it? Besides, I’m stubborn.
They mail you a little evaluation after the fact, and tick off areas you need to improve to achieve your next level. To my credit, there weren’t too many tick marks – I must have been close. I got busted on things like ‘your sentences were frequently strung together without the linking necessary to convey the message clearly.’ Beloved looked over the evaluation, gave me a long look and said, “You can’t do most of this stuff in English these days.” He was right. I’m not sure if it made me feel better or not.
Alors, on essaye encore. My teacher is the same one I had before, and I like her a lot. Six hours a day of one-on-one language training is intense, though – at least in a classroom you can nod sagely while the other students are talking and zone out for a minute, or be relieved when somebody else continues to be perplexed by the subjunctive for the third day in a row. Private lessons means its all me, all the time. The Dani Show, in neither official language. Yikes!
Good luck! I know you can do it.
Good luck! I know you can do it.
You go girl! I give you credit. Even with one-on-one tuturing oh how I struggled learning another language!
And I’d be happy to watch the Dani Show… in any language!
You go girl! I give you credit. Even with one-on-one tuturing oh how I struggled learning another language!
And I’d be happy to watch the Dani Show… in any language!
You’ll do great! How about I only speak to you en francais from now on. Deal?
Beaucoup de café et chocolat s’il vous plait.
You’ll do great! How about I only speak to you en francais from now on. Deal?
Beaucoup de café et chocolat s’il vous plait.
I can not even imagine learning a second language. But then I guess that makes me the typical citizen of the US.
Good Luck!
I can not even imagine learning a second language. But then I guess that makes me the typical citizen of the US.
Good Luck!
That’s the only way I COULD learn. I don’t thrive in classroom situations – as a fellow Leo, I imagine this might go for you too!
That’s the only way I COULD learn. I don’t thrive in classroom situations – as a fellow Leo, I imagine this might go for you too!
Tha’s an intense course but one of teh best ways to learn a language.
Bonne chance ma belle, tu es capable!!
Tha’s an intense course but one of teh best ways to learn a language.
Bonne chance ma belle, tu es capable!!
Honey, think of this way. You are lucky to have a teacher who twice a week devotes her ENTIRE day to your language skills. Her WHOLE day. She focuses her COMPLETE attention on your needs. Come one, that’s gotta appeal to your “Leo-ness”. 🙂
Honey, think of this way. You are lucky to have a teacher who twice a week devotes her ENTIRE day to your language skills. Her WHOLE day. She focuses her COMPLETE attention on your needs. Come one, that’s gotta appeal to your “Leo-ness”. 🙂
Isn’t it always the Dani Show…24/7?
I’m still in the midst of my language training (40 hours a week). I have three other students with me and at times it’s both a blessing and a curse. I don’t normally have that much one-on-one time with a teacher unless the others are absent. Thankfully, that’s only happened for a half day so far. I can’t imagine what you’d talk about all day if there were only two of you. Oh wait, I forgot…it’s the Dani Show. You’ll do fine. 🙂
Good luck!
Isn’t it always the Dani Show…24/7?
I’m still in the midst of my language training (40 hours a week). I have three other students with me and at times it’s both a blessing and a curse. I don’t normally have that much one-on-one time with a teacher unless the others are absent. Thankfully, that’s only happened for a half day so far. I can’t imagine what you’d talk about all day if there were only two of you. Oh wait, I forgot…it’s the Dani Show. You’ll do fine. 🙂
Good luck!
Bonne chance!
Bonne chance!
Slept in till 6:30 eh? OK – I can take them overnight now
love Mom
Slept in till 6:30 eh? OK – I can take them overnight now
love Mom
The best way to learn french is to live in an all-french town with people who just look at you funny if you say one word in english. That’s what I’d like to give my kids.
Good for you for keeping going.
Bonne chance!
The best way to learn french is to live in an all-french town with people who just look at you funny if you say one word in english. That’s what I’d like to give my kids.
Good for you for keeping going.
Bonne chance!
I would love to do what you’re doing. Learning a foreign language is on what used to be my 40 before 40 list, but now 50 by 50 list. I may have to move it to “Things To Do Before I Die” list. You will do great.
Had to laugh at JoJo’s comment. Isn’t what she’s describing a mother?
I would love to do what you’re doing. Learning a foreign language is on what used to be my 40 before 40 list, but now 50 by 50 list. I may have to move it to “Things To Do Before I Die” list. You will do great.
Had to laugh at JoJo’s comment. Isn’t what she’s describing a mother?