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Thu | August 17, 2006
déjà jeudi?
What have I been doing all week? Learning French, I suppose, is my focus now. It's a temporary but extended detour from writing. I still want to be a writer-- that will not change. But it's so difficult to have direction with writing, or know what to do next. With French is easier to see progress-- I can feel myself learning new words and my vocabulary growing as I recognize more of what I read. and listen to. And think of things to say. And write. Read, listen, speak, write. It must be good for me to expand my linguistic cortex. I think it must be tangentially related to writing. But I must not analyze too much. There is fear that analyzing kills things. Am I glad it's already Thursday? I have been learning French, and waiting for the kiddies to come, not that many, and yet double the number as before. I don't feel that I have particularly wasted my time, and yet what results do I have for the week? I've written a bunch of sentences in French. I'm on chapter 13. It's good because I can see how much I've done. I read the whole workbook initially and now I am working on filling out the exercises.
The "To Do" list:
- read chapter (for grammar)
- do exercises at the ends of the chapters
- write some sentences using vocabulary
- write some sentences using grammar
I've read the whole book, so the first item is checked off. I've done exercises up to chapter 13. I've written sentences up to chapter 13. I've edited the sentences up to chapter 8. I haven't written any grammar sentences. Should I be going faster? There are 26 chapters, I think. The problem with being alone is I have no idea how fast I am going. In writing or in French. With French I have a better idea because I have taken language classes before-- Spanish in high school and modern Greek one summer, it must have been 2002. I should probably try to go as fast as a college course would go.
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