word angst

[timepiececlock]

There's this weird thing with studying French (like I did last quarter) and watching Japanese tv (like I often am) and speaking English... all at the same time.

I get into these conversations or situations, where I want to say something, but instead of English I need to say it in French. Or Japanese. Or some strange hybrid.

And because I only know minimal French, and I only LISTEN to Japanese, I don't understand it, I end up standing there with my mouth moving soundlessly, trying to make words come out that I don't even know. I want to speak the Japanese because I listen to it so much that the sounds are there, in the back of my mind. I want to speak French because I read a lot of school stuff in French and the words are there in the back of my mind.

And there's these situations where I just know that English won't cut it, and something else is called for, but I end up floundering, or stopping myself from shouting unintelligable nonsense that vaguely resembles Japench/Frapan.

Also I have an overwhelming desire to say "Gomen!" or "Gomen nasai!" to the professor whenever I am late to a class. I've had to supress that many a time.

I actually said "Ano-sa!" to my mom the other day. Probably because Naruto says that all the time in Naruto so I've been hearing it a lot.

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[brigidforest.livejournal.com]

you know what i did one time...

i was watching chrno crusade in japanese, reading the subtitles in spanish, and translating what was going on in english to my boyfriend.

yah.. that was odd.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've watched Princess Mononoke in Japanese with French subtitles once. Gave me quite a head-ache and I only understood it because I'd already seen it in English.

I was on a road trip, using my dad's laptop to watch movies, and I was really really bored.