Oh, dear Lord.
Oct. 5th, 2005 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brinshannaraDid you know that there are over THIRTY irregular past participles in the passato prossimo in Italian?
THIRTY. Thirty PLUS.
Thankfully, I already know... ... wow, I know 20 of them pretty well from my prior classes. But still.
And the imperfect is okay, too.
But there's a ton of present-tense irregularities that just SUCK. To ascend, which is "salire", is crazy. It's salgo, sali, sale, saliamo, saliate, salgono. Where the hell does this G come from, and why is it only in the first person singular and third person plural?!
Grr. There are others that are just as mystifying, as well.
In other news... no, wait. There IS no other news, there is just my Italian test in TWO HOURS.
Okay, no, I lie. JB was over last night, we watched Commander in Chief, Weeds, Kitchen Confidential and How I Met Your Mother. Tomorrow, after Research Design, we're coming back here to watch Alias. And tonight, tonight is Lost and that makes me happy, because my mom is picking me up after my test and driving me home and I get to watch my Hattrick match (part of it, anyways) and then LOST and yay.
Right, so I'm aware that Italian and TV are my entire life right now. Sue me.
Back to studying some irregular verbs and wondering why the hell I took Italian in the first place.
PS: If my parents didn't speak halfway decent Italian and I hadn't been able to speak Italian with them during, oh, I don't know, EVERY SINGLE CONVERSATION I HAD with them this summer (it's funny, mom and I start out in Italian, degrade to French, end up in English and then say goodbye in French and Italian), then I would be SO MUCH MORE SCREWED for this class than I am now. As it is, I've used my Italian all summer, although not all that much (mostly first person and usually the present tense), but my parents corrected me on certain things all summer. I feel good about this, now. Hopefully the test will not blow away all my confidence.
Studio adesso! (I'm studying now!)
THIRTY. Thirty PLUS.
Thankfully, I already know... ... wow, I know 20 of them pretty well from my prior classes. But still.
And the imperfect is okay, too.
But there's a ton of present-tense irregularities that just SUCK. To ascend, which is "salire", is crazy. It's salgo, sali, sale, saliamo, saliate, salgono. Where the hell does this G come from, and why is it only in the first person singular and third person plural?!
Grr. There are others that are just as mystifying, as well.
In other news... no, wait. There IS no other news, there is just my Italian test in TWO HOURS.
Okay, no, I lie. JB was over last night, we watched Commander in Chief, Weeds, Kitchen Confidential and How I Met Your Mother. Tomorrow, after Research Design, we're coming back here to watch Alias. And tonight, tonight is Lost and that makes me happy, because my mom is picking me up after my test and driving me home and I get to watch my Hattrick match (part of it, anyways) and then LOST and yay.
Right, so I'm aware that Italian and TV are my entire life right now. Sue me.
Back to studying some irregular verbs and wondering why the hell I took Italian in the first place.
PS: If my parents didn't speak halfway decent Italian and I hadn't been able to speak Italian with them during, oh, I don't know, EVERY SINGLE CONVERSATION I HAD with them this summer (it's funny, mom and I start out in Italian, degrade to French, end up in English and then say goodbye in French and Italian), then I would be SO MUCH MORE SCREWED for this class than I am now. As it is, I've used my Italian all summer, although not all that much (mostly first person and usually the present tense), but my parents corrected me on certain things all summer. I feel good about this, now. Hopefully the test will not blow away all my confidence.
Studio adesso! (I'm studying now!)
