a re-post

I was going through some old posts that I had written during the early states of my language study time in Norway and I read something that is pretty much mirroring my feelings right now - 2 years later...

"Language study - what can I say about it? It messes with your head, your emotions and your life!
One day you feel like you are getting a hang of things and you are making good progress and the next day you feel like you have learned nothing, you sound like an idiot and you wish those stupid people of Babel would never have tried to built that tower - reaching a tower that reaches to the heavens, come on, people, what were you thinking?!?!?! :-)

If any of you know somebody who is trying to learn a language right now, please, give them a break, a hug or a pat on the back, because learning a language is seriously humbling!
Why? Well, while you might be able to sound reasonably smart in your own language, now you sound like a 3 year old (and that would be the best-case-scenario, usually you might be closer to the 1-2 year old :-)). And you are always tired which explains, why toddlers need so much sleep - because they are learning a language! :-)"

yeah, so right now, it feels pretty much like that, plus there are ants everywhere!

So in all of that, it is nice to watch your daughter having a tiny victory moment of her own (since I am for sure not having any right now)... she stood without being held for the first time today (ok, she held on to something, but still...)

can you tell that I am excited and she is scared :-) ?