Yelling works. Also, thoughts on languages...

It appears that I only accomplish wonderful feats of nerd* when I actually say that I will do something. Preferably yelling it in capitals somewhere public, such as in this blog. As opposed to saying something like "let's see if I can do this..." <- That didn't work today! Instead, it has to be something like this:

TOMORROW I AM GOING TO FINISH THE REST OF THE FIRST-COLUMN NOTES FOR 9.4
I WILL DO THAT BY 4PM GAHHHHHH


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Also, I will get up earlier. Might watch the 7AM German news on SBS1... been watching the 1:10PM news on SBS2 since Tuesday. It was/is horrifying in its fluency. Though funny, maybe I'm imagining it but today I seemed to understand more / find it easier to understand HAHAHAH YAY.

On a somewhat related note, I've decided that for foreign languages, this is the [descending] order of difficulty of.. doing stuff. Yeah, that was coherent. But yes:

1. Speaking: You have to nail your pronounciation and grammar while maintaining a normal talking speed (which becomes horrifically speedy when you're not yet fluent), which involves THINKING FAST. On top of that, if you're going to be reeeeally good at speaking, you have to sound natural/native with your diction/etc.

2. Writing: Your grammar/etc. has to be awesome. You can't hide any grammar mistakes in writing.

3. Listening: You don't need to have perfect grammar/etc to understand what people are saying... the difficulty here is understanding the language as it's spoken... right, that was coherent. And I cbb to elaborate...

4. Reading: You don't need to have perfect grammar/etc to understand something that's written - also, when you're reading, you can work at more of your own pace than with listening, and seeing the word written out makes it easier to guess the meaning than if it were spoken... sometimes, at least. E.g. "utile" is Italian for "useful" ... I'm pretty sure it's not impossible to guess the meaning from seeing that written out (link to ''utilise'', anyone?) but if you heard it spoken, it wouldn't be as easy to guess. I think.

...That's how I find it, at least, haha.


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*by my standards of how effective I usually am in the holidays when I don't have anything urgently due...