I could claim that I’m making up for two days with no entry by posting twice today, but that would be a lie. The truth is that I’m procrastinating. I should be writing a book review of Alkemisten for my Swedish class, but every time I try I just draw a blank. I don’t know why I’m having such a hard time with it. I think it’s probably because I’m used to the words flowing fairly easily in English, and I get discouraged pretty quickly when I have to struggle for words the way I often do when writing (or speaking) Swedish. I hate it, too, when I reread what I have written and it sounds so simplistic and childish and not at all like what I would have written in English. Bah.
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Jag vill inte!
October 17, 2003
Jupp! The story looses it’s colour when you have to use a language that isn’t your mothertounge.
Instead of writing “I like the story of the book and the writer uses the language in a very effective way”… you end up with:
“This is a good book”…
Yeah!
Yes, I know what you mean, It can be really difficult sometimes.
*hugs*
I know what you mean. When I moved to the States and I had to study and write 20 page essays in English, I was getting very often discouraged. But all of a sudden it makes click in your brain and it gets very easy. If you have reached this point you can be proud of yourself. And there is nothing more beautiful than to learn a language and to understand the cultutre of the country.
Good luck,
Sandra