You know...
Mar. 30th, 2006 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brinshannaraI love Italian. Really. I do. I don't think there's a more beautiful language than Italian. I love the rhythm, the cadence, the style, the flair.
I also loathe it more intensely than I thought was possible.
I have a test at 2:45. On ordinal numbers (first, second, third, primo, secondo, terzo), the passive form, relative pronouns, the imperative and the subjunctive.
I am confident of my ability on the numbers and fairly reasonably okay with the subjunctive. The pronouns and imperative are so-so. The passive form? Gah.
I don't tend to use the passive voice in ENGLISH, much less Italian.
I really think this may be my last semester of Italian. It makes me sad, but also, there's this huge wave of relief at the idea of not cramming a whole new language, complete with verbs and tenses, into my already-full brain.
The only motivation I have right now is to learn this so that when I go to Italy this summer (June, baby! 2 weeks!) with my parents, I'll be able to tell them I'm going out and not to worry, because I can speak the language, too. I refuse to be stuck at my parents' sides for two weeks when I am somewhat capable of speaking with the locals.
... I highly doubt I'll wind up speaking in the passive form to some random person in Italy, though. :P
I also loathe it more intensely than I thought was possible.
I have a test at 2:45. On ordinal numbers (first, second, third, primo, secondo, terzo), the passive form, relative pronouns, the imperative and the subjunctive.
I am confident of my ability on the numbers and fairly reasonably okay with the subjunctive. The pronouns and imperative are so-so. The passive form? Gah.
I don't tend to use the passive voice in ENGLISH, much less Italian.
I really think this may be my last semester of Italian. It makes me sad, but also, there's this huge wave of relief at the idea of not cramming a whole new language, complete with verbs and tenses, into my already-full brain.
The only motivation I have right now is to learn this so that when I go to Italy this summer (June, baby! 2 weeks!) with my parents, I'll be able to tell them I'm going out and not to worry, because I can speak the language, too. I refuse to be stuck at my parents' sides for two weeks when I am somewhat capable of speaking with the locals.
... I highly doubt I'll wind up speaking in the passive form to some random person in Italy, though. :P
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Date: 2006-03-30 05:57 pm (UTC)On the one hand, two weeks with my parents.
On the other hand, ITALY.
Italy won out. ;)
So two weeks in June -- one week mostly in Milan, and the other... we don't know. A quick pop over to Venice, maybe, and then back to the other coast? Not sure yet. My mom claims she doesn't want to go to Rome, which makes me sad. But I could deal with Florence or Parma or something.
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Date: 2006-03-30 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-30 10:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm going to demand Florence be on the itinerary if Rome isn't. (How dare they not want to go to ROME in the age of digital cameras?!) :)