In a message dated 02/11/2001 11:42:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mdehners@... writes:


I've kept quiet on all this until now because honestly, I hadn't finished
with last yr's project to start working more than superficially with the
course.
However, now that starting tomorrow I will be putting my full energies to
the course I feel I have the right to speak up.
I'm a beginning language student. This is my first REAL attempt at another
language other than my native language. I'm also 40. Some of the
discussions
lately
have made me discouraged before I really start. For the last couple of yrs
I've been reading the poems of the Codex Regius in parallel with a good
(IMO)
English translation and felt pretty good about myself about what was
picking
up of vocabulary and grammar. Not so any more...
Troth,
PTD



Heill!

OK, some of the messages has left me wondering at times.  I'm 44, speak
English, can read French, German with the occasional help of a dictionary,
though I won't claim to speak them anymore.  The declension of this new
language is similar to some of what I know from German, but I still find the
changes strange and reread and reread and reread the lessons trying to get it
sometimes.  Even years ago, I never did fully understand some of the teachers
talking about tenses and the like, so some of the conversation is hard now as
well.  I appreciate the way this course is being presented.

Wassail!
Night Winds