Hello Everyone!
For those of you who have no idea what the title of this post is (that is most of you, I'm assuming), it means "I understand a little danish!"
My friend Loey and I decided that, as we are both part danish (me more so, hahahaha!) and because we just plain felt like it, we are going to teach ourselves danish.
The only small problem that I've run into so far is the fact that my college doesn't offer any danish language courses and has no teach yourself danish books.
None.
They have plenty of books IN danish, but none on how to speak and/or read it.
Meaning that I am only a little behind Loey. Most of what I have learned I have learned from her calling and texting me, because her public library has how to speak danish books. Why her public library has more language books than my university library does I have no idea.
However, I am lucky because WWU is part of this group of universities that share books. Meaning that today I finally (FINALLY!) got my how to speak danish CD and book set. From WSU Pullman.
Let me explain. There's this program that WWU is a part of called (I think) Summit, which allows students from WWU, UW, WSU, and I'm pretty sure more schools in Washington to borrow books from all the different libraries. Meaning that I get to learn danish, yay!
I'm not all that great at it yet, but seeing as I started about five days ago I'm doing pretty well I think.
I can say:
~Jeg forstår lidt dansk. "I understand a little danish."
~Har min kaelling og min luder.(Which I have no idea if I'm spelling right -_-) "I've got my bitches and my whores."
~For Farden. "Oh fuck."
~Farden ja. "Fuck yes."
~Hej da. "Good bye."
Because the first thing that you do when you are learning a new language is learn to swear. Anyone want to take a guess about the first word that I learned in danish was? Anyone?
If you said farden or fuck, you would be absolutely correct
So anyway, that's pretty much what's going on with me. I mean, besides learning about modern Africa from the 19th century to today, learning all that there is to know about greek mythology, as well as the beginings of western civilization (including reading The Epic of Gilgamesh for the FIFTH time, and every thing that we are doing wrong to fuck up out environment in environmental studies.
...Yeah... I'm just a little busy.
Till next time,
Hayley
