some days i do really good with spanish. in fact, i would even go so far as to say that i rock the shit out of it. then the next day, you could ask me my name and i would be stumped. seriously, it-s super extreme like that sometimes.
but that-s how learning is because you have to do that thing a zillion times before you encounter every single variation and then you have to encounter each variation another zillion times before you can recognize it and assimilate it. and i-m talkin about some basic shit here...
let-s say everyday you walk into the office and you exchange hello's with the secretary. and let-s that she always asks you 'how are you?'. everyday, without fail. then one day she asks you 'how-s it going?'.
and you think... WTF did she just say to me???! dude, i thought i had the whole greeting thing down. i was ready to move on to solving world peace.
it-s simple stuff like that that can really trip you up. even something as simple as saying 'how-s it goin' (dropping the g in going) can sound totally different to a non-native speaker.
but as all this is happening, your brain is creating all these pathways. and at first, nothing connects, you-ve just got a bunch of dirt roads that seem to go nowhere. then slowly the dirt roads start connecting such that you can get from your house to the driveway, then one day you can get from the driveway to the grocery store. and it starts building such that one day you realize that somehow you got to somewhere that you-d never been before, but you didn-t need a map or GPS. your brain knew how to get there because it had enough information based on past experience that it could draw some conclusions.
it-s kinda cool how the brain the works like that. i-m reaching a point where i can almost see those connections happening!
anyway, i know all that is kinda boring. so to make up for it, i-m gonna start a series of posts about dating in a foreign country cause who doesn-t like to talk (in painstaking detail) about the trials and tribulations of dating and then add doing it in another country!
but that-s how learning is because you have to do that thing a zillion times before you encounter every single variation and then you have to encounter each variation another zillion times before you can recognize it and assimilate it. and i-m talkin about some basic shit here...
let-s say everyday you walk into the office and you exchange hello's with the secretary. and let-s that she always asks you 'how are you?'. everyday, without fail. then one day she asks you 'how-s it going?'.
and you think... WTF did she just say to me???! dude, i thought i had the whole greeting thing down. i was ready to move on to solving world peace.
it-s simple stuff like that that can really trip you up. even something as simple as saying 'how-s it goin' (dropping the g in going) can sound totally different to a non-native speaker.
but as all this is happening, your brain is creating all these pathways. and at first, nothing connects, you-ve just got a bunch of dirt roads that seem to go nowhere. then slowly the dirt roads start connecting such that you can get from your house to the driveway, then one day you can get from the driveway to the grocery store. and it starts building such that one day you realize that somehow you got to somewhere that you-d never been before, but you didn-t need a map or GPS. your brain knew how to get there because it had enough information based on past experience that it could draw some conclusions.
it-s kinda cool how the brain the works like that. i-m reaching a point where i can almost see those connections happening!
anyway, i know all that is kinda boring. so to make up for it, i-m gonna start a series of posts about dating in a foreign country cause who doesn-t like to talk (in painstaking detail) about the trials and tribulations of dating and then add doing it in another country!
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