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kittydesadeDer Wievielte ist heute? What is the date today?
Heute ist der 1. (erste) März. Today is March first.
Den Wievielten haben wir heute? What is the date today?
Heute haben wir den 1. (ersten) März. Today is March first.
In German, there are two ways to express dates. Dates are expressed with ordinal numbers preceded by the masculine form of the definite article (referring to the noun Tag). A period after a number indicates that it is an ordinal. The day always precedes the month
Hamburg, den 2. März 2005.
Dates in letter headings or news releases are always in the accusative.
Frank vergisst immer, wann seine Freunde Geburtstag haben. Ihr Geburtstag ist immer zwei Tage später als er denkt. Beantworten Sie seine Fragen.
1. Hat Gisela am dreizehnten Juli Geburtstag?
Nein, am fünfzehnten.
2. Hat Willi am ersten Januar Geburtstag?
Nein, am dritten.
3. Hat Uwe am zweiten März Geburtstag?
Nein, am vierten.
4. Hat Elke am sechsten November Geburtstag?
Nein, am achten.
5. Hat Claudia am achtundzwanzigsten April Geburtstag?
Nein, am dreißigsten.
6. Hat Gerd am fünfundzwanzigsten Dezember Geburtstag?
Nein, am siebenundzwanzigsten.
Okay, that looks fairly straightforward.
Ow, my head. It's been such a day. My Arabic books came! Yay! A grammar, an alphabet book, and a verbs book. Arabic is fucking scary! Boo! (Modern Arabic Standard, for those who want to know.) Anna's Arabic books came! Yay! And now we're both scared. Boo! Hey we can do Arabic for two hours on the weekend! Yay! OMFG FIVE LANGUAGES AT ONCE? Very boo. Or maybe just very frightening in that I consider five languages at once to be manageable. Holy hell. Unholy hell. This, plus looking at the reading list for
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yuletide_admin and realizing that, conservatively, 1500 people saw my name linked to some giant feat of pinch hittery. Plus ... well. And plus day job work which, though not busy, has not been quiet either. It's been a day. A very yoyo-y day. I want to go home.Maybe this is gig crash. Or in my case, Yuletide crash. If that's the case, I'll sure take this over all the WOE NO ONE REC'D ME BARELY ANYONE COMMENTED GUESS I'LL GO EAT WORMS of the previous years. This is just bogglement and exhaustion.
And when I'm this exhausted I shouldn't look at how many verb forms Arabic Standard has I'll be over here in the corner of afraid now. Wow, Kiki wasn't kidding about the caterpillar brain. Fortunately we'll be taking this one nice and slow. Alphabet first. And trying to find a pronunciation
All I managed to get done today at work was about, um. I think 5000 words plus on the behind the scenes post for Yuletide. Including six things that help me write stupidfast and the last several stories worth of actual behind the scenes stuff. So that's ready to go up tomorrow, and I guess it'll help that tonight it's mostly just outlining and all that jazz. Outlining, maybe writing some more self-indulgent [redacted] fic or just working on one of those many, many more stories I wanted to write based on my various and sundry Yuletide things. That ought to keep me busy. Plus guitar, plus writing kanji, plus figuring out some form of vaguely healthy dinner. And then tomorrow all the chicken and all the chocolate chip cookies ever. Om nom nom.
Sunday, when reveals happen, I will be immersing myself in Bon Cop Bad Cop so as not to even think about whether or not anyone still remembers how many pinch hits I wrote, let alone wants to go see which ones were me. This is definitely gig crash. Needs moar water and protein and sleep.
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Date: 2012-01-01 10:44 pm (UTC). . .
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oi. Well, at least I don't feel so bad that my inability to choose between Latin and Korean has lately led to mad moments of JUST DO BOTH.
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Date: 2012-01-01 10:49 pm (UTC)When I take myself out of, well, myself, and look at it from the outside it's kind of WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WOMAN.
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Date: 2012-01-01 10:56 pm (UTC)(one course at a time. An entire semester's worth of material in 3.5 weeks, but the theory is that you can handle it because you're only doing one class. Lovely for many, many thing. For my slow and feeble brain....language learning ain't one of them.)
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Date: 2012-01-01 10:59 pm (UTC)I could probably do an accelerated learning/immersion program, but I'd have to maintain discipline once it was over or I'd lose the bulk of it. Russian, through two textbooks, took me about three years, and I'm just starting to get what I'd call conversant in it; fluent will take more vocabulary. Japanese is weird because I already took a couple years of it, but. Definitely not aiming for mastery anytime soon.
I think also it's the growing up bilingual thing. I've never known a time when I wasn't able to juggle two languages in one head, whereas for someone who didn't till later in life it seems more strange.
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:06 pm (UTC)It doesn't help that I have an incredibly poor memory, but I also did nothing to maintain discipline when I stopped studying.
(I would like to have it entered into the record that I'm totally blaming you for the fact that my brain is saying 'well if we work on only one language a day we could rotate between Korean and Latin and Japanese and Russian and still have days left over to pick up some extras! GO SIT IN THE CORNER BRAIN.)
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:11 pm (UTC)I kept up the Spanish and French, Spanish because my whole family speaks it as well as English and French because it was similar, but I lost the Japanese for a while. Then when we started CS I picked up the other languages and, well. Now I'm a crazy person.
(I'll be over here dying of laughter. Start small and get your brain muscle working first! Then add in.)
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:44 pm (UTC)Well, I'm already a crazy person so that should help.
First I need to get used to doing anything at all constructive with my brainmeats. Oh, and find my Korean text. That might help.
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Date: 2012-01-02 03:12 pm (UTC)Maybe that last one's just me. I have a dirty mouth. Mind. Both.
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Date: 2012-01-02 06:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:13 pm (UTC)We're also planning to start studying Arabic together on the weekends because we're NUTS. Oh my lord how many tenses do verbs need?
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:42 pm (UTC)Arabic verbs bring ALL the tenses to your yard.
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-02 05:47 am (UTC)(Chinese Jag and I have both sworn off unless we can find a teacher, at least as far as the spoken language goes, because FUCKING TONAL LANGUAGES. You would think music would help with that, but it's a totally different part of my brain, I guess.)
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Date: 2012-01-02 05:56 am (UTC)But what the hell, it will be fun. After all, I'll only have to juggle an entirely new writing system, vocab from three languages, a completely different focus for word order, situation orientation and macro-to-micro ordering, honorifics, terms of address, extra pronouns, speech levels and a handful of other things.
(No, not so much for easy.)
(and yeah, I can't even HEAR the tonals. If I ever get stranded in China I'm doomed.)
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Date: 2012-01-02 05:58 am (UTC)That's not gonna work here, is it.
Crap.
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Date: 2012-01-02 06:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-02 06:11 am (UTC)(Half so Jag knows, so I don't get chewed on too badly when she gets up and sees how late I've been tagging. Ahem.)
(...if you'd rather chat realtime, you do have my gmail.)
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Date: 2012-01-02 06:31 am (UTC)(but if I'm chatting realtime I can't pretend that really, I'm winding things up to go to bed. I only planned to do that...an hour and a half ago. Chatting will have to happen another night, also replying to messages and forcing myself to take notes on these terrifying things my text book is saying so that my brain will stop glazing over. It be sleeps time now.)
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Date: 2012-01-02 06:33 am (UTC)(Ahahaha no worries. No, I know, I should've gone awhile ago too, ideally, but the brainweasels WOULD NOT SHUT UP, so I distracted them for long enough that my backbrain could give me some answers. *nodnods* Sleep well!)
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Date: 2012-01-02 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-02 06:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-02 06:57 pm (UTC)Japanese does have an advantage over Arabic and Chinese (and Korean?) in that it's easier to pronounce. That's probably about it. It still has two alphabets and the kanji, plus being a subject-predicate-verb language, plus probably half a dozen other things that I can't think of off the top of my head because I don't learn languages quite the usual way, but.
I'm sure there are things!
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Date: 2012-01-02 07:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-03 04:08 pm (UTC)If you want to click around on my 'learning: japanese' tag, it won't have all of it but since I'm learning out of a textbook it'll probably have some grammar rules. As you've seen!
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:49 am (UTC)And I will keep that in mind. I am going to put my Korean notes up (I'll cut, I promise), both so I can find them later, and for Rebecca's sake too.
I love it when the internet can be my external brain. *sighs happily*
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Date: 2012-01-04 03:43 pm (UTC)The internet is an amazing thing for that kind of organization. >.>
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Date: 2012-01-05 08:28 pm (UTC)Awwwwww.