Life Sorted Out
Nov. 5th, 2007 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishYou know your internet is working when you start getting headaches from staring at the screen so long. The good stuff just sucks you into it.
Though I suppose I could blame some of this on the fact that I've been working on translating this rather long document- it's getting progressively easier because they tend to repeat themselves, or at least use the same vocabulary, but not that much faster. Also, huge overuse of the Genetiv.
I found out from Karel that Danish is not as complicated as I thought. I assumed, from what she had said about how difficult it was, that it had some of the same grammatical complexity as German. But it doesn't actually have cases, so I guess I was just wrong on that count.
I have to say, that I'm feeling rather proud of my German at this moment. When one is immersed in a world of native-speakers of a language, you tend to get to point where you just assume people can speak a language, even if you have only ever spoken to them in a completely different language. To have someone I know, and to whom I talk a lot, be completely unable to understand German was kind of a wake-up. I have learned quite a lot, even if it's all just random stuff that I cobble a workable existence out of.
I'm getting my financial work sorted out, finally. The Austrian account that I got saddled with is rather crap- it doesn't actually have checks, and you can't use it to pay for anything online, only in person. So, I have figured out a way to get online banking for my preexisting credit card, so I will be able to use and pay the damn sucker easily and wrack up some good credit history for myself, and still be able to buy plane tickets when I need them. Life goes on nicely.
Though I suppose I could blame some of this on the fact that I've been working on translating this rather long document- it's getting progressively easier because they tend to repeat themselves, or at least use the same vocabulary, but not that much faster. Also, huge overuse of the Genetiv.
I found out from Karel that Danish is not as complicated as I thought. I assumed, from what she had said about how difficult it was, that it had some of the same grammatical complexity as German. But it doesn't actually have cases, so I guess I was just wrong on that count.
I have to say, that I'm feeling rather proud of my German at this moment. When one is immersed in a world of native-speakers of a language, you tend to get to point where you just assume people can speak a language, even if you have only ever spoken to them in a completely different language. To have someone I know, and to whom I talk a lot, be completely unable to understand German was kind of a wake-up. I have learned quite a lot, even if it's all just random stuff that I cobble a workable existence out of.
I'm getting my financial work sorted out, finally. The Austrian account that I got saddled with is rather crap- it doesn't actually have checks, and you can't use it to pay for anything online, only in person. So, I have figured out a way to get online banking for my preexisting credit card, so I will be able to use and pay the damn sucker easily and wrack up some good credit history for myself, and still be able to buy plane tickets when I need them. Life goes on nicely.
