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mothwingVois sur ton chemin
Gamins oubliés égarés
Donne leur la main
Pour les mener
Vers d'autres lendemains...
It is really frightening how fast I have forgotten this language, how alien the sounds already feel to my tongue and how utterly unable I am to understand it.
I took French for four years at school, and now I only understand tiny bits of what used to be so open to me. I don't even understand the homework I found a while ago, and it was my own. In French. And I have no idea what it may mean. I vaguely remember things about nature issues I may have described ( "...je suis un ami de la nature."). All tenses escaped my head, it seems, and same goes for most words, and after not having picked up a French book for about five years I am not even able to read the lyrics of the songs from "Les Choristes" without resorting to dict.leo.org every second word now. It is depressing.
It is odd how much the soundtrack is connected to Crocky for me, it may be because we have seen the film together and because one of her teachers virtually is Monsieur Mathieu. It was in German, sadly, but I am definitely going to watch it in French one day. Well, I will not understand a lot, but it cannot be that I really remember nothing. I cannot form one grammatically correct sentence in French.
Well... yes, I can. "Je suis Moth, et toi, qui est tu?" or "Où est la toilette pour femmes?" - but that's basically it - and there are probably mistakes in those sentences as well. J'en ai ras le bol, that's higher education for you - a few years out of school and my French is rudimentary, my English tenses are going to pieces and my Latin is even less existent. Sigh.
The worst of the three is probably Latin, because need Latin skills for my degree. Well, not actually, but I have to present that at some point I had reached a certain level of proficiency. That means that I will have to take the course I need to reach the level I need for my degree and that means that when I am in Glasgow I will have to repeat every bit of Latin I learnt and then forgot again.
But seeing as Crocky has similar plans, it will most probably be fun, learning things together.
Gamins oubliés égarés
Donne leur la main
Pour les mener
Vers d'autres lendemains...
It is really frightening how fast I have forgotten this language, how alien the sounds already feel to my tongue and how utterly unable I am to understand it.
I took French for four years at school, and now I only understand tiny bits of what used to be so open to me. I don't even understand the homework I found a while ago, and it was my own. In French. And I have no idea what it may mean. I vaguely remember things about nature issues I may have described ( "...je suis un ami de la nature."). All tenses escaped my head, it seems, and same goes for most words, and after not having picked up a French book for about five years I am not even able to read the lyrics of the songs from "Les Choristes" without resorting to dict.leo.org every second word now. It is depressing.
It is odd how much the soundtrack is connected to Crocky for me, it may be because we have seen the film together and because one of her teachers virtually is Monsieur Mathieu. It was in German, sadly, but I am definitely going to watch it in French one day. Well, I will not understand a lot, but it cannot be that I really remember nothing. I cannot form one grammatically correct sentence in French.
Well... yes, I can. "Je suis Moth, et toi, qui est tu?" or "Où est la toilette pour femmes?" - but that's basically it - and there are probably mistakes in those sentences as well. J'en ai ras le bol, that's higher education for you - a few years out of school and my French is rudimentary, my English tenses are going to pieces and my Latin is even less existent. Sigh.
The worst of the three is probably Latin, because need Latin skills for my degree. Well, not actually, but I have to present that at some point I had reached a certain level of proficiency. That means that I will have to take the course I need to reach the level I need for my degree and that means that when I am in Glasgow I will have to repeat every bit of Latin I learnt and then forgot again.
But seeing as Crocky has similar plans, it will most probably be fun, learning things together.
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Date: Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 04:18 pm (UTC)Quickly? Me? I've had French at school for four years and I have been learning English for... 12 years now. Gosh. That's not exactly what I'd call quick. :D