Yesterday was a fantastic day - one of those when you achieve almost everything you wanted and which exist to remind you on your normal days just how lazy you're being!
Started the morning with self-indulgence. The Hungry Jacks (here Burger King) equivalent of a McFlurry while I spent money buying a teach-yourself German Book and an Italian Grammar and progressive reader. I've wanted to learn German and refresh my Italian for probably two or three years now so decided it was time to take the step. Then after lunch buckled down to it. Did my first lesson of German (I'd forgotten how hard it is to start a language from scratch!), then finished a translation of an Epigram by Antipater of Sidon that I'd started some days ago and been working on in my desultory way. Then went to see a unit 10mins from where I'll work and which looks quite good. Getting back I hit a vein of inspiration in my writing and put down around a thousand words in around two hours; went to Mass, doing the first lesson of Italian on the train to South Kensington. The journey back I gave myself some 'me' time and read a couple of epigrams. Mini-pizzas for dinner - really yum! - and another thousand words (I was on fire!), reviewed my German vocab, read two pages of Lysias and an elegy of Tibullus, then a lesson of Latin prose composition, finishing up with some relaxation reading Anatole France's 'L'Etui de Nacre' which means roughly 'casket of mother of pearl'. I've forgotten how to put in links or I'd add a hyperlink to a bio online...anyway I'm a big fan of his work. Thought the day was finished then but was uber-strong (my German coming through already) and after going to bed got up again for one more review of German vocab.
How I'm ever going to have so productive a day again I don't know...!
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sono contentissimo che hai ripreso lo studio della bellissima lingua italiana! complimenti! padre B.
ps... gotta love those Italian superlatives lol FrB
Hey, Greg - make the most of these productive days - they just don't last when you get back to work....
I'm not going to embarrass myself with writing in Italian just yet Fr - but at least can read what you wrote!
And you're right, I'd forgotten it but Italian uses so many more suffixes, superlatives, diminutives etc, than French.
verissimo! quando sei pronto, rispondimi pure in italiano! in the meantime English will do! FrB
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