Danish Lessons - Rosetta Stone, Entry #2

I'm trying to do one exercise with the Rosetta Stone every day.  I've just finished exercise 3 (of 5) in lesson 2 (of... I'm not sure how many).

Lesson 2 is all about verbs, so I've been learning all about how to talk about men, women, children, fish, birds, bulls, and airplanes doing various things.  Running, jumping, swimming, reading, flying, falling...

I'm not going to lie, the repetition gets a bit tedious.  Each exercise in a lesson has all the same pictures and phrases as the previous exercise, but learned in a different way.  Whether it be learning to read the text, or recognize it aurally, it's all the same stuff.  I'm not going to complain about it, though.  Tedious as it is, it does help to solidify the information in my mind.  Unfortunately, a side effect is that my eyes start to blur a bit by the end.

And when I'm done, I'm usually ready to take a nap.  Just one exercise, and I'm mentally exhausted.

I'm glad to be learning it this way for now, though, so that this mental exhaustion doesn't get the better of me when I'm sitting in Danish classes in Copenhagen.

Informal Formal Danish Class #3 - Less Oy?

While my fiance is off being the swankiest Brit in Omaha (a.k.a. the only Brit in Omaha), I spent the evening in another Danish class.

I left tonight's class feeling much less overwhelmed than I was last week.  While the material was still hard, and I'm still well behind the other girl (seriously, she can read a sentence in Danish without even thinking about it, where as I have to pause before and after almost every word over 3 letters long... and some under...), I do feel like I'm progressing.  If only nominally.

Today's lesson started with verbs.  And, strangely, verbs are actually easier in Danish than they are in Spanish.  While they have their tenses, they aren't conjugated based on the subject.  As soon as he explained that, I thought "Yes!  I got this!"

My brain may have gotten over excited.

After going over verbs, we did a little work on sentence structure (which is going to take a while for my brain to soak in), and how to ask and answer questions.

Oh, and I learned to tell time.  So, that's good.