Update

[nekosensei]

Hmmm...maybe if I keep the "Post an Entry" page open in a separate tab, I'll be apt to post more often. I'm trying to keep up the best I can with LJ, but I've been swamped lately. I'm hoping things will calm down in the next week or two.

* A few days ago, doomsey suggested that I start writing letters to random politicians to light a fire under their butts about National Health Care Reform. Well, yesterday, I sent out letters to Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and Roland Burris. I still have to pen a letter to our representative, Peter Roskam, but I'm busy at the moment so it's going to have to go on the back burner for awhile. I'm not going to be too upset if it doesn't get written; he's against health care reform, and I doubt that there's anything I can say to convince him otherwise.

* While I was at work last night, my best friend called to tell me that she delivered her baby on Saturday through C-section. I tried getting a hold of her this afternoon, but haven't been able to. I'm hoping to visit her either tomorrow or Friday afternoon. I have a baby blanket to drop off for her.

* German class is still going well. This class isn't too challenging for me because it's a beginning class and I tend to pick up languages easily. I'm finding that learning German is much much much easier than learning Japanese. For starters, I don't have to learn a whole knew writing system. Also, it's related to English, and some of the words sound very similar. Now, what's probably going to end up kicking my butt is noun-adjective agreement. I'm not used to a language that has three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Spanish only has two genders and Japanese doesn't have any.

* This website, formspring.me, is entertaining. If you have any questions, ask away! Also, if you create an account, let me know so I can friend you there.

*Brrr...I'm fuh-fuh-freezing. So much for the spring-like weather we've been having...

* Somebody just sent me an email telling me how to check my email.
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Well, okay then.

* Aww fuck it. *raises the thermostat*

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Ich habe zwei Katzen. Sie heißen Cosette und Arwen. Cosette ist graue, weiße, und braune. Arwen ist schwarze. Ich leibe meine Katzen.

I think I said that right. I had to google a bunch of grammar rules on noun-adjective agreements because we haven't studied that yet.

Oh dear God...adjectives and articles change based upon whether they're the subject, direct object or indirect object of the sentence. That's gonna take some getting used to. I remember my sister-in-law saying that Latin does the same thing. Hmm...

Comments

[bibliofilen.livejournal.com]

All germanic languages, and probably proto-indoeuropean as well, used to have both the kasus?-system of German as well as all the verb-forms of latin languages like French and Spanish. I keep thinking speaking must have been a more formal thing to create that kind of grammar, but I'm most likely wrong.

For what it's worth I understood everything you wrote even though I've never studied German. Swedish used to have both femininum, masculinum, neutrum and utrum but today almost every noun is either utrum or neutrum. Apart from that our grammar is much more like English than German.

Your text in Swedish:

Jag har två katter. De heter Cosette och Arwen. Cosette är grå, vit och brun. Arwen är svart. Jag älskar mina katter.


Like you I'm getting involved politically. We have an election this fall and I'm hoping we will oust the conservative Alliance in power now. They have caused severe damage to our welfare state as it is so this year I've decided to be active in the campaigning for the Left - one of three coalition parties in the red-green opposition.

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* Somebody just sent me an email telling me how to check my email.

LOL This is funny. :)