But I've found that writing in a notebook and then copying it onto the computer helps keep me from editing as I go along. Let me rephrase that: waking up in the middle of the night and writing with only a reading light to brighten your room. It works better if I'm seized by a sudden inspiration in bed. I find thinking in darkness works wonderfully. Like so:
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Now on to failed French conversations. A dance classmate and I are both taking French, so we were all excited when we found out and decided to have a conversation. Only thing is . . . we *forgot* we only know names of random objects and random phrases/sentences; we don't know enough to form discernible sentences. We came this far (translated into English):
Classmate: Hello.
Me: Hello. How are you?
Classmate: I'm good. How are you?
Me: Good.
*pause*
Both of us: Uhhhh . . .
Classmate: (English again.) I would ask you your name, but since I already know it . . .
Me: Yeah. I was thinking the same thing.
*more silence*
Me: Fail.
Maybe in a few months.
I always end up doing that as well! (Both of the above, actually, but with a very dim book light that I need to get new batteries for and in Spanish instead of French.)
ReplyDeleteMy Spanglish is lovely. (FYI, the below conversation is essentially what you posted, but in Spanish.)
Me: Hola! Como estas?
Person: Bien, y tu?
Me: Bien.
*think think think*
Person: So, about that test
Yeah, my lamp usually doesn't create that much light either (I had trouble accurately representing a reading light, so . . .), but since my eyes are pretty bad, I usually have one, small, BRIGHT circle on the page, and then darkness in the rest of the room.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Sudden change of subject and language.