Now for Another Mental Health Announcement

[battt5721]

After carrying on a fairly extensive conversation with Beth Gale before class in french, (which i wouldn't have had the confidence to do without the practice of me and katherine's new weekly french phone conversations. Thanks Katherine!), i got really frustrated in class, gave up, and started speaking english, and felt supremely stupid. I finally

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[koolsilver]

only an english major?!?!?!?!
i forgive you.

[battt5721]

onyl an english major as in "not an english-french double major"

[koolsilver]

okay i can forgive that especially. don't worry, brock. you are only a freshman, first of all.

[iliveinaconvent]

Brock, don't beat yourself up over this. I've felt the same way at times. of course, I gave up on the idea of speaking another language last semester.

[anonymous]

after you study abroad, youll be fluent. until then, don't worry about it. itll come super easy once you have to use it in real life. but that said, i love talking to you in french, so lets not stop.
love,
katherine

[strange_donovan]

i agree with katherine. it is hard to be fluent in a language when you are constantly surrounded by a different one. it is good to have a conversation partner, though. sexy susan used to be conversation partners for people learning english, i think.

[gnorknik]

I'm sorry, Brock. But don't give up! That is, of course, unless you want to go work in Disneyworld with me!

And you should have taken a sensible language like German. =) Or Arabic, which I'm considering taking at some point in my college career.

[detonesublimely]

well, I like you, french or no french. plus, I think that you can do it.