beginning to learn finnish
11 Jan 2006 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenedude, while looking for a missing squeegee i just discovered two bottles of nail polish, a missing green suede belt and a whole bottle of xanax. i'm not actually feeling anxious right now, though. except for how i can't find the squeegee.
yesterday was my first encounter with trying to learn finnish and my second attempt to get a textbook that really should have been at akademiska bokhandeln and wasn't. the book i can order, the finnish, not so much. i found japanese a lot easier. i have never had such a discouraging first day of language learning, because i've never studied a language i had much trouble pronouncing. (other than how i still can't roll Rs as spanish and swedish both require.) of course this could be because japanese and spanish aren't particularly difficult to pronounce, but i was cracking wax up for twenty minutes practicing short and long vowel sound words with my "cute little accent".
i am telling myself not to despair yet because it's perfectly possible that i will learn to pronounce finnish fairly well, and i just won't be able to quite hear the difference between certain sounds until after the first lesson.
also yesterday my relatively simple to-do list involved stopping at the copy machine in the central building for my faculty, ekonomiska statsvetenskapliga fakultet, to run off a single copy of one sheet of paper. little did i know the copy machine would turn out to have had its copycard reader removed. i had to walk right past a copy store on my way to the bank, but there was no money in my wallet.
when i tried to call wax from the bank to set up a rendezvous downtown... my phone was mysteriously out of minutes, though i had never got a warning message, so i had to walk back home through the university to get her. well, i skipped the copy store and instead stopped to use the machine in the library... but their machine was out of order! and the last place i knew for sure had a copy machine was åhuset, but that was out of the way and i was in a hurry. so no copies were made. and then the bookstore didn't have my book.
yesterday was my first encounter with trying to learn finnish and my second attempt to get a textbook that really should have been at akademiska bokhandeln and wasn't. the book i can order, the finnish, not so much. i found japanese a lot easier. i have never had such a discouraging first day of language learning, because i've never studied a language i had much trouble pronouncing. (other than how i still can't roll Rs as spanish and swedish both require.) of course this could be because japanese and spanish aren't particularly difficult to pronounce, but i was cracking wax up for twenty minutes practicing short and long vowel sound words with my "cute little accent".
i am telling myself not to despair yet because it's perfectly possible that i will learn to pronounce finnish fairly well, and i just won't be able to quite hear the difference between certain sounds until after the first lesson.
also yesterday my relatively simple to-do list involved stopping at the copy machine in the central building for my faculty, ekonomiska statsvetenskapliga fakultet, to run off a single copy of one sheet of paper. little did i know the copy machine would turn out to have had its copycard reader removed. i had to walk right past a copy store on my way to the bank, but there was no money in my wallet.
when i tried to call wax from the bank to set up a rendezvous downtown... my phone was mysteriously out of minutes, though i had never got a warning message, so i had to walk back home through the university to get her. well, i skipped the copy store and instead stopped to use the machine in the library... but their machine was out of order! and the last place i knew for sure had a copy machine was åhuset, but that was out of the way and i was in a hurry. so no copies were made. and then the bookstore didn't have my book.
