On My Brain at Rest

When I have pressing matters on my mind, it naturally drifts to something that permanently floats around in the back of my thoughts. When it comes to hobbies, I have many that I can choose from if I have free time.

One of those things for me is language study. It's something I love to do, and will gladly do if I have free time.

Tonight, I had my first night off since the weekend and I was pleasantly not busy. I didn't have to clean anything, do laundry, do any work, and no episodes of favourite shows to catch up on. So after eating, I had the evening to myself.

My first thought after "What should I do now?" was invariably LEARN STUFF! So went through my inner bibliography of languages I know and want to practice (French. Latin), know a little and want to continue with (Gaelic, Italian, Korean) and don't know but want to learn (Finnish, German, Spanish). In the end, I pulled out my lappy top, downloaded a language pack for Korean and got to it.

Within 1/2 an hour, my brain hurt. This would be my first non-roman-alphabet language, and it was a lot harder than I thought. When doing Italian (the other language I did with Rosetta Stone), pronunciation was a breeze, and the grammar was easy to understand with French and Latin already under my belt. But Korean? Geeeeez! The grammar wasn't too bad, but trying to follow the pronunciation with only a toddler's undertanding of the alphabet is freakin' hard!

Now, I picked up some rudimentary vocabulary and phrases when I lived in Korea, but so far, it isn't helping me, ha ha ha!

Here's the best part, though: now that I know it's going to be hard, I want to do it MORE!!! I'll be damned if I let a little thing like learning a new language beat me! How VERY DARE it make my brain hurt!

So yeah, this is what happens when Leah has free time and wants a rest...An epic battle between brain and language!!! God help the poor soul who marries me and has to deal with this on a regular basis. :P