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[kittydesade]

Two paragraphs, translated and parsed.
Подумать только -- я здесь уже две недели. Я уже поменяла свою программу. Я Вам писала о курсе английского языка для иностранцев. Я сразу поняла, что этот курс лёгкий для меня, и я першла на американскую литературу. Что интересно, в американских колледжах можно свободно выбирать курсы. Кроме того, есть такая система "add-drop" (дословно -- добавить-бросить) Это значит, что можно послушать курс примерно неделю. Если он не нравится, можно перейти на другой курс, если ещё есть свободные места.

Thinking about only [verb: infinitive, adverb; implied neutral/abstract] -- I here already two weeks. [Subject, implied copula verb, location noun, time adverb, predicate subordinate clause: time].

I already changed my program(curriculum). [Subject, time adverb, verb: past tense, possessive modifier: self, direct object]

I wrote you about the English language course for foreigners. [Subject, indirect object/dative pronoun, verb: past tense, prep phrase (preposition: of/about, object of preposition in prep case), noun phrase modifying the object of the preposition (adjective: genitive, noun: genitive), prep phrase (preposition: for + noun: genitive plural).]

I immediately understood, that this course easy for me, and I switched to American literature. [Subject, adverb, verb: past tense, subordinate clause (conjunction, indicative article, noun: clause subject, implied copula verb, predicate adjective, prepositional phrase (preposition: for + noun: genitive plural)), coordinating conjunction, independent clause (subject, verb: past tense, prepositional phrase (preposition: to, adjective: prep case, noun: prep case))]



Okay, parsing shit is hard, takes forever, and works a lot easier when you can draw arrows to everything. Still, I actually do kind of think this will help me understand sentence structure and so on. I might start doing exercises like this for bits and pieces of all these end of chapter exercises, followed by writing a similar paragraph of my own from English to Russian. Yay self-guided study!

Science is neat. That is all. (Aka: making Stradivarius instruments available to everyone! Via CAT scan and CAD printers.)

Oof. Sometimes I forget how much I do in a single day. Three languages, music practice, making dinner, exercise, day job, and, um. Squirrels. I don't even know. Lots and lots of things, all the things, so I shouldn't blame myself when something slips through because I'm so tired I just want to curl up with a couple of stupid TV shows and enjoy. Really. Plus I have Plunkett and Macleane and I'd forgotten how fucking hilarious that movie is. As in, really. And dammit, internet, why must you fail me when I want to foist hilarious period movies off on people? Stupid internet.

Pulled out one of my old bellydancing videos this morning because I felt lazy and didn't want to choreograph my own dance warm-up routine. Which, in retrospect, is stupid because I don't actually have to choreograph anything, I just have to go over the exercises I did over and over again for twelve years when I was a kid. But still, it was fun, and it reminded me of just how far I've come from those days. Both in terms of mindset and in terms of losing dance tone. Yes, I'm still harping on that, no I haven't regained much of it. Solidifying goals will come in a check-in post tomorrow, I think, because that needs to be my new goal now that I've kind of sort of gotten to 50 pushups, depending on how crazy my schedule is and how much I've dropped off exercise. Sometimes it's only 48. :P Anyway, so, yes. Figuring out dance goals. Maybe not "do it just like in the video by February, but something more.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to figure out how to get rhinestone letters on a tiara.

Comments

[kikibug13]

Подумать только -- я здесь уже две недели. -> To just think - I've been here two weeks already. (I've been here already two weeks is closer to the word order, but less sensible in English. The first part is very close to literal, although [verb: gerund, adverb?; implied subject first person] -> actually [verb: infinitive, adverb; implied neutral, rather than first person.) [Subject, location noun, time adverb, predicate subordinate clause: time] -> also, 'verb 'to be' - omitted']

Я Вам писала о курсе английского языка для иностранцев. -> I wrote to you - Вам - second person plural, polite address.

The rest seems okay!

EEEEE bellydancing! I should... actually do some of that.

[kittydesade]

For great understanding! Even if it takes forever. ;)

... how the hell did I turn Вам into 'them.' *blinks*

It's not traditional style bellydancing, but they have a really good warmup routine. And owhard. I am way more tubby/not as flexible as I'd like to be. Which is slowly changing! Also I have more muscle than I used to.

[kikibug13]

Well, yes, but it gives you more structure, better view of the patterns.

I don't know! But it's okay. Mistakes are not a goddamn crime!

HEEEE yes. mmmm. *eyes youtube, smirking slightly* Right. Warm up and then will give it a try... (After I go home, I mean.)

[kittydesade]

Yes. I like patterns, they help me understand things.

No... Mistakes happen. Scrub brain, try again, get better habits.

That sounds like a plan! Definitely warm up, though, and shake out first maybe. Get the muscles loose.

[kikibug13]

^_^ Funny how that works... :P

Exactly. So yeah.

And going home now, w00!