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Great gods the dutch class is fracking me off. She spends 20 min on a page that she says is very high level grammar, only a couple of you can manage it.

SO WHY?.....Please, don't give us grammar instruction, just throw the worksheet at us and not the explanation/example sheet that goes with. You ridiculous bitch.

And yeah, harps on pronunciation, but uh, lady, I spent three months with family and a city that seemed to understand me JUST FINE. Dutch isn't a tonal language, and variations are to be expected. She speaks a very formal old school dutch, and I speak the more laid back amsterdam-ish.

Last week it was "keken" kaekin. repeat EXACTLY and she still harped. Everyone stared at her like she was mad. She did it to someone else too. ( don't recall what the word meant, no matter).

We're given "write this in passive past tense" but no actual instruction on how one might actually do that. I got exasperated and said "I cannot spend 9 hours looking for instructions for a con ed class." She goes "oh, you just "get it" eventually.

OH BITE ME. You've skipped some fundamental grammar instruction this level.

Today was also me trying to talk on the phone with the bank this am as r's goofing off with the dog in the background. Then the pen I uncap EXPLODES black felt ink in my mouth, THEN the dog stealth horked behind me while I was eating.

(uh I said call in the afternoon,bank.)

Gah. Two more classes. Makes me want to scream. I want to learn but what did we pay for I'm not sure since she doesn't really give us much to go on.