Melllttiiing...
Jun. 25th, 2006 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transomwhiplassIt's 90 degrees in my room at 10:30 at night. That is far too warm. Unfortunately, I need to wake up early tomorrow and start back in a fun weekly routine so I'll have to make due.
I'm looking forward to Italian, but tomorrow might be the longest two hours of my life. At this point, I don't really know how "on top of it" I'll have to be. So far, I've been fortunate. I was trying to refresh my brain a bit on the grammar but I didn't really have the patience to go through 400 pages in my old Italian book. I tried but I would find myself accidently skipping over important bits when I was just trying to pass over the exercise portions. All I wanted was a condensed manual on grammar. Then the heavens opened up and I had a eureka moment. I found this awesome book I bought back in Fall 2004 and never cracked called "English Grammer for Students of Italian," which is pretty much exactly what I wanted - it explains when you use certain tenses but doesn't bother with much in depth stuff.
I'm at the point where I will at least recognize bizarre forms like the conditional and the more obscure points of the subjunctive. I'm not necessarily ready to use them, but I figure I'm okay for tomorrow. I think...
Eh, I'm worried but at the same time I'm not. I just want to get through tomorrow to see how much of an uphill battle this is going to be to catch myself up. I mean, 200-level language classes are pretty chockful of review. I looked at my workbook and the first few pages are devoted to definite/indefinite articles. I think I can do that, so we'll see. My professor is the head of Italian portion in the Romance Language departments. She hasn't taught second-year Italian for 3 years but she gets decent evaluations. Annnyway.. I have to go to bed now. Lame. Buonanotte.
I'm looking forward to Italian, but tomorrow might be the longest two hours of my life. At this point, I don't really know how "on top of it" I'll have to be. So far, I've been fortunate. I was trying to refresh my brain a bit on the grammar but I didn't really have the patience to go through 400 pages in my old Italian book. I tried but I would find myself accidently skipping over important bits when I was just trying to pass over the exercise portions. All I wanted was a condensed manual on grammar. Then the heavens opened up and I had a eureka moment. I found this awesome book I bought back in Fall 2004 and never cracked called "English Grammer for Students of Italian," which is pretty much exactly what I wanted - it explains when you use certain tenses but doesn't bother with much in depth stuff.
I'm at the point where I will at least recognize bizarre forms like the conditional and the more obscure points of the subjunctive. I'm not necessarily ready to use them, but I figure I'm okay for tomorrow. I think...
Eh, I'm worried but at the same time I'm not. I just want to get through tomorrow to see how much of an uphill battle this is going to be to catch myself up. I mean, 200-level language classes are pretty chockful of review. I looked at my workbook and the first few pages are devoted to definite/indefinite articles. I think I can do that, so we'll see. My professor is the head of Italian portion in the Romance Language departments. She hasn't taught second-year Italian for 3 years but she gets decent evaluations. Annnyway.. I have to go to bed now. Lame. Buonanotte.
