Two exams tomorrow (Friday) - Polish in the morning and translation from German into English in the afternoon.
The one thing I fear the most is the plasterboard dividers in my brain which separate one language from another finally failing, and all the languages mixing together in one big linguistic porridge.
Occasionally I see alarming signs of it - Swedish and Dutch sometimes seem to have alarmingly interchangeable words, for example... I hope it's not the beginning of a worrying trend!
Posted by Eurodan at May 29, 2003 10:42 PMOh good luck btw! Or should I say bonne chance... ("...tho I prefer it in the Italian - the Quattro Formaggi.")
Posted by: Erato at May 30, 2003 10:00 AMThank you!
Well, one down (the Polish exam), and one to go.
The Polish exam had one particularly vexing question, which turned out to mean 'what's your favourite dish?'. It used the word 'potrawa', which I didn't know, and thought might mean 'place'.
So I ended up saying that my favourite dish was Stockholm.
Ah well... no-one likes a know-all!
Posted by: Eurodan at May 30, 2003 10:38 AMAh - should've plumped for Brussels! :-)
Posted by: Erato at May 30, 2003 2:17 PMWhy didn't I think of that? Or Stilton, perhaps... or Gouda...
Dan, er, sorry, er, Eurodan, does the duck have something to do with fairgrounds and shooting games? If so, how come it's still in seemingly fine fettle?
Posted by: Another *anxiety dreamer* (yes, I'm sorry, but that's the only explanation) at May 30, 2003 10:54 PM