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[nilchance]

My hormones are so jacked up right now, for serious. I owe comments for the mpreg, not to mention the next part, but instead I'm watching this:

NEEEEE JEFF WITH BISOU. I adore his dorky-ass laugh and him hoisting his 90-some lb dog onto his lap and him drinking heavily with firefighters and eeeeeee so much love.

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[bunnster.livejournal.com]

Hardly a bother. ;-) I'm German.

I personally wouldn't touch mpreg with a ten foot pole but I'v sat through many a French lesson wishing for translations of weird stuff like that. The kind you wouldn't EVER ask your teacher, but that are way more interesting than your usual boring textbook sentences along the lines of "Paul met Sara. Then Paul and Sara went shopping". :-)

(There's a community for German learners on LJ btw if you're interested: it's called denglish)

[wyoluvr.livejournal.com]

an actual German, whoot! thanks for the info on the german community.

i've been taking German for reading (i'm a grad student) and it's just totally kicked my ass in a surprising way. i mean, i can read two other languages and work my way through a third, so i was all "German, wtf?"

[bunnster.livejournal.com]

Wow! Three other languages. I don't read anything but German and English. (Apart from a little Dutch, I mean. But that's just because it's related enough to German to be halfway understandable when reading it. Don't understand a word when they're talking)

I guess German's hard to learn because it's pretty grammar heavy. I don't know what other languages you read, but romance languages don't decline nouns, which German and most slavic languages do. That's a stumbling block for a lot of learners in my experience.

[wyoluvr.livejournal.com]

well, i'm a medievalist and i know Latin, French, and I can read Italian if I really try. i have no problem with the case system (except that it goes in a different order than Latin). my big problem was the vocab. i'm a lot older than the last time i started learning a whole new language, and i think i've lost the ability to master vocab quickly.

apologies to nilchance for taking over the comments! but really it's sort of topical...Jensen should totally have a facility for languages. okay, that's a stretch *g*