Pah

[rebness]

So I went to this secondhand English-language bookstore on Saturday. I picked up, amongst other things, a book on basic Danish, have been reading through it and then decided to try out some pronunciation lessons via the internets to try sounding out the language. BIG MISTAKE. I just cannot wrap my head around the pronunciation, though I fecking tried.

I weep for how inept I am at non-Romance languages. :'(

(Russian excepted, but that was because my tutor Svetlana was so good at displaying sheer disdain when one failed.)

But anyway! Apart from that bit of weekend fail, I now have in my possession Glue by Irvine Walsh, The Social Contract by Rousseau and The Idiot by Dostoevsky. I really wanted to get a copy of The Brothers Karamazov but alas, couldn't find it. There was an anthology of Kurt Vonnegut literature there, too, but funds did not permit. I shan't forget it, though. >:)

Comments

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

LOL, you can't learn a whole language's new sounds in an afternoon. I've had three weeks of ICELANDIC INTENSIVE and I am pretty awesome, but a modern Icelander would still sneeze at my attempts. Take it slow. :p

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously -- but I had problems just pronouncing "hello" and "goodbye"! It's just embarrassing. >:(

(Lulz, Icelandic.)

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Well, it takes practice! Or maybe your mouth will never be able to produce those sounds 'cause you're retarded, I dunno.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Guh! It's obviously the second option.

I'm serious! I just can't frigging do it! This is totally German all over again. After TWO YEARS, my brother still cannot get me to pronounce a single sentence properly. It's pretty lulzy, but I worry for his blood pressure.

[avariecaita.livejournal.com]

Je t'aime. Comment dit-on "wanker" en français? >:)

PS: I'd txt you back, but I just woke up and I think it's like ... 2200 for you.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Aaww, je t'aime aussi!

I've heard that it's 'branleur', but I cannot be sure. Hmm...

[sroit.livejournal.com]

Oui. Though I have seen it spelled 'branler.'

[sroit.livejournal.com]

P.S.

Which makes sense as "er" endings are generally verbs. >:)

[avariecaita.livejournal.com]

Clearly we would have to study the matter of Julian vs Heathcliff over a bottle of wine. I have several theories and cannot bring myself to type them all out.

Why is it that when a non-English-accented person says "wanker" they suddenly adopt the English accent? I believe it's because you simply cannot say "wanker" in the Yankee twang. It makes baby!Jesus cry.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

You can say it with an Aussie drawl, though. :D