Started module 4 yesterday.
Meet the new teachers, same as the old teachers.
Indeed, I have the same two teachers as I had for module 3, and things with our Monday/Wednesday teacher have begun in style.
And by style, I mean with me having to explain the difference between past tense and present perfect tense to the teacher, after he gave us the wrong answer on an assignment during class.
To be fair (sort of), he seemed to be much more prepared prepared for the start of module 4 than he was for the start of module 3. Then again, he didn't even know he was teaching on Mondays at the start of module 3, and showed up more than half an hour late.
You can't see it, but I'm rolling my eyes.
We also worked on an assignment in which we had to figure out where the "stød" (or glottal stop) was in each of the seasons and months of the year. If you've been reading my posts for a while, you know my feelings on "stød." Now, I've come around a little bit on the idea. A very little bit. For example, on words that sound almost exactly the same, sometimes the stød and the context of the surrounding sentence are the only way to know which word is being used. However, insisting that we listen for something that is both difficult (and often impossible) to hear and usually unnecessary for the sake of being understood... feels like a waste of time. Time that we could be using to learn useful things like... words and grammar.
Not to mention that stød is generally the least of people's problems when it comes to Danish pronunciation.
The good news is, our Thursday/Friday teacher is also the same as well, and I find her knowledgeable, easy to understand, and downright delightful.
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