Language Classes, Monday, Oct. 17

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Hello.

I hope you enjoyed the movies on Friday. It's nice to have some diversion before the weekend.

Today, we are resuming our lessons from Wednesday.

Classics Students: You have a quiz on Hebrew today. The quiz consists of 15 vocabulary questions, a passage to translate, and a two-minute conversation with me in Hebrew. Approach me at my desk when you are ready for our conversation to begin.

Languages of Asia:We are continuing our work on Cantonese Chinese. Please review this audiotape and write a brief script using structures from it and your worksheet on Wednesday.

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Re: Classics, 10/17

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream beckons her to his desk and begins speaking in ancient Hebrew.

//Hello. Are you ill?//

Re: Classics, 10/17

[janet_fraiser]

"Allergies," answers Janet in English. She doesn't know the Ancient Hebrew word for allergies--if it even exists. She stops and sighs. "Many flowers," she says in Ancient Hebrew. "Make me sick."

Re: Classics, 10/17

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream nods.

//I am sorry to hear that.

Do you take ...he gropes for a word simple enough that it might be part of the class vocabulary...drugs to cure this?//

Re: Classics, 10/17

[janet_fraiser]

Janet nods--and sneezes again. "I take--" After this, she was looking up the word for 'medication' in Ancient Hebrew. "--drugs." She shrugs and blows her nose. "Many, many flowers. Drugs stop--" She pauses as she tries to remember how to conjugate properly. "Drugs not work now."

Re: Classics, 10/17

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream looks genuinely sympathetic.

//Perhaps the school's [there's no word for clinic]health-care place would have better drugs.

How are you otherwise?//

Re: Classics, 10/17

[janet_fraiser]

Janet's smile is somewhat bleary. "Needs time," she says with a shrug. "Time--no flowers," she clarifies, mentally chastising herself for forgetting a simple conjunction.

There's no word Janet knows for 'life continues to suck as normal,' so she substitutes something else instead. "Same." She suppresses a frown. "Boy problem." She decides she needs to clarify, and searches her memory for something approximating 'thick-headed, oblivious, academic nitwit. Naturally, nothing comes to mind. "Boy is stupid. We talk. Will be--" 'Okay' is slang, 'all right' is escaping her right now. "--fine. Later."

She has got to study enough to gain something resembling at least an adolescent's level of fluency in this language.

Re: Classics, 10/17

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream furrows his brow, trying to follow what she is saying.

//Love is hard.//, he says, not adding Even for me, and I am much, much older than you are. //I hope you do talk to your friend.//,

Re: Classics, 10/17

[janet_fraiser]

Janet wracks her brain and finally comes up with the past tense. "We talked," she says. "We will talk more." She sneezes, then shrugs. "Love is very hard."

Re: Classics, 10/17

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream gives her half a smile.

//I wish you luck.

Thank you for talking with me, Janet. Do you have any questions I could help you with?//

Re: Classics, 10/17

[janet_fraiser]

Janet smiles wryly and sneezes again. "Thanks, I'm fine," she says.

Re: Classics, 10/17

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream steps back, nodding. Good.

I will see you Wednesday.

Re: Classics, 10/17

[janet_fraiser]

Janet smiles and goes back her desk.