a thoroughly modern young woman
Dec. 2nd, 2005 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolEveryone one my flist appears to be going home, or have gone home from university.
This is Inherantly Unfair, I think. I spent Spanish today chanting "only six more lessons, one more test, one more exam" because we are doing Bastarding Past Participles and they make me want to cry.
On the other hand, I woke up at 12.50pm (yo me levanto a la una menos diez or something like that dammit I'm just getting the hang of present tense) so the world is not that terrible a place.
So, I was eating breakfast (as one does at 1.20pm. Something about desayuna and la una y veinte?) and Katie came home from a lecture.
"Colleen!" she said cheerfully.
"What?" I said, probably spraying her with crumbs from my Marmite on toast. Marmite, apparently, is good for energy so I am eating it as I have very little other food and can't afford anymore, really.
"Come to the Bop!"
"Nah, can't afford it. I'm going to the OddBash on Saturday, though." I am, too. At £3, it is cheap if I take my own drink. The Bop this week is £4 for World Aids Day and, y'know, it's a good charity but I have no money so really.
"I'm going to that too! I will pay for you to go the Bop."
I blinked. "Buy me a drink as well."
"I'll make it a DOUBLE."
We high-fived. Night out for me tonight, yay etc. I then peered at her suspiciously. "Hang about, why the desperation?"
"Derya and Sarah both won't come with me and I need to pull tonight. It's been WEEKS, Col and I am desperate enough to go by myself."
She gave me a piteous look and I giggled. "Okay. You pay for my night and I will help you find sex."
This means, of course, a night in which I sort of look awkward for quite a long time unless I can bribe someone else to come out with us tonight, but there we are. It is, y'know, safer this way for a start, and does mean that I get a night out. Hurrah! Etc.
Oh, the perils of being a young female bejantine.
Right. I am now going to make copious notes on the Cistercian order. And put my washing away.
~Hathy_Col~
This is Inherantly Unfair, I think. I spent Spanish today chanting "only six more lessons, one more test, one more exam" because we are doing Bastarding Past Participles and they make me want to cry.
On the other hand, I woke up at 12.50pm (yo me levanto a la una menos diez or something like that dammit I'm just getting the hang of present tense) so the world is not that terrible a place.
So, I was eating breakfast (as one does at 1.20pm. Something about desayuna and la una y veinte?) and Katie came home from a lecture.
"Colleen!" she said cheerfully.
"What?" I said, probably spraying her with crumbs from my Marmite on toast. Marmite, apparently, is good for energy so I am eating it as I have very little other food and can't afford anymore, really.
"Come to the Bop!"
"Nah, can't afford it. I'm going to the OddBash on Saturday, though." I am, too. At £3, it is cheap if I take my own drink. The Bop this week is £4 for World Aids Day and, y'know, it's a good charity but I have no money so really.
"I'm going to that too! I will pay for you to go the Bop."
I blinked. "Buy me a drink as well."
"I'll make it a DOUBLE."
We high-fived. Night out for me tonight, yay etc. I then peered at her suspiciously. "Hang about, why the desperation?"
"Derya and Sarah both won't come with me and I need to pull tonight. It's been WEEKS, Col and I am desperate enough to go by myself."
She gave me a piteous look and I giggled. "Okay. You pay for my night and I will help you find sex."
This means, of course, a night in which I sort of look awkward for quite a long time unless I can bribe someone else to come out with us tonight, but there we are. It is, y'know, safer this way for a start, and does mean that I get a night out. Hurrah! Etc.
Oh, the perils of being a young female bejantine.
Right. I am now going to make copious notes on the Cistercian order. And put my washing away.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2005-12-02 05:10 pm (UTC)did you get snow yet?
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Date: 2005-12-02 05:43 pm (UTC)Basically, "have/has .....ed" is "haber .....ado/ido. That's it, nothing complicated. Just remove the ar/er/ir from the verb and stick ado(for ar verbs)/ido(for er/ir verbs) on instead.
Ok, so haber's irregular, but it's just a matter of learning it like with any other irregular verb. Yo he, tú has, él/ella ha, nosotros hemos, vosotros habéis, ellos/ellas han. It'll stick soon.
Yes, there are some irregular past participles, but not many, and you won't really need to use most of them. The only ones you'll probably be using any time soon are hecho (hacer), visto (ver), escrito (escribir) and dicho (decir). forget about the others for now.
If they have said anything about the past participle agreeing, IGNORE THEM. If not, do not read the next paragraph.
It never agrees when you use it with haber (i.e. when you're saying have/has .....ed), and if they expect you to use it in any other way any time in the next six months or so, they are evil sadistic bastards and should be slaughtered in very painful and imaginative ways involving trampling by wild animals/mobs and vats of boiling oil and the like. So, nothing to worry about there.
Hope that un-confused you a bit.
And I know, everyone is finishing for christmas and it's nasty. I'm here till the 17th too. It sucks. But I have tinsel and fairy lights and such, and that makes me happy. Random dancing is fun. There should be more of it in life.
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Date: 2005-12-02 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 05:51 pm (UTC)The ten minute session. "This is a regular past participle. Get it? Got it? Any questions? No? Right, irregular."
It's TOO QUICK. And they ARE that evil.
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Date: 2005-12-02 06:00 pm (UTC)*goes off in search of vats of boiling oil*
That is evil. What the hell do you do for three lessons a week if they only spend ten minutes teaching you a whole new tense?
They went slower than that with us in italian, and it's PART OF OUR MAIN DEGREE, not a free elective or whatever you call them, which I presume spanish is for you.
No wonder you want to cry!
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Date: 2005-12-02 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 06:07 pm (UTC)1. Five minutes running over the use of reflexive verbs
2. 24 hour clock
3. Timetables - bus timetables and personal timetables
4. de la manana/por la manana - the difference
5. Expressive frequency - siempre, etc
6. Regular past participles
7. Irregular past participles
And that is quite a slow lesson compared to others. No wonder I'm failing. It's supposed to be for beginners but expects a lot of linguistic knowledge that I simply don't have, combined with a class full of people who 'summered in Equador' and all that shite. BAH.
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Date: 2005-12-03 01:12 am (UTC)That is scary. I have never had a language lesson go that fast and I'm doing a combined languages degree!
They really are evil, sadistic bastards!