Do you want to know how to tell when your brain is on overload and it’s time to quit? I think I discovered this today.
I’ve been studying Italian. Previously I had planned on giving up, concluding it’s never going to happen, I will never be able to learn a word of Italian and I must be an idiot. That changed when I started realizing some things were sticking. After trying about 34,294 different methods, I finally hit upon what I need to do to actually learn it – thus the continuing ed lessons for me. It turns out I’m not stupid after all. I just learn differently.
After that revelation, I sprung for a more expensive software package and have religiously been studying it every day for an hour a pop. (Okay, so I’ve only had it for 2 days. I will keep up this pace!) It was going along great. Until I tried it again tonight. Initially I was getting a few things wrong; little things like remember the difference between ‘he’ and ‘she’ but I was surprised by how much I knew. Ah, well that all went out the window tonight.
I know I’m tired but I didn’t think I was that tired. I mean come on, the entire world knows ‘mangia’ means eat so how the heck did I get that wrong? Then I found myself clicking on the wrong answers even when I knew the right ones. Yep, it’s time to quit studying for the day.
Oh, and another thing – what is up with the whole voice recognition thing? Because I was saying ‘bambina’ perfectly fine. It’s not a hard word. It kept telling me I was wrong. I suspect it was the NY accent. Not that I have an accent. Well that’s it for the stupid microphone. If people don’t understand my Italian with the NY accent, tough luck!
I can’t talk about anyone else’s accents. My parents went to New Jersey a few months back to visit my sister. During their visit one of my sisters neighbors lost her 2 year old son. They called the police and my dad found him ( safely asleep in his mothers bed behind some pillows.) One of the policemen asked my dad where he was from and when my dad told him Ohio the policeman said ” with your accent I thought you were going to say Louisiana.” He doesn’t sound like he has an accent to me
I highly recommend studying Italian food too!
[quote comment="3677"]I highly recommend studying Italian food too![/quote]
Oh, Lanny, I don’t have to study Italian food. I am already an expert in Italian food – both cooking & eating it. If you ever come to NY, I’ll be happy to prove that.
This is date night and we were supposed to be going to an Italian restaurant in an hour except ‘someone’ has to work late yet again so it has to be postponed until tomorrow.