Well I'm back at college for a two week Hebrew intensive. Unlike our one day Greek intensive coming up (which doesn't sound like it will be that intense) this is quite stretching. The theme of day one was, "Everything you think you know, you don't". Which is quite disheartening really.
The new batch of first years are around today as well which was accompanied with a bit of reminiscing and the occasional, 'it seems like only yesterday...' I was looking around at them all this morning at morning tea and thinking to myself, "Were we really that thin?" The answer: probably.
What did you think you knew that now isn't true, Zac? Wonder if I need to unlearn anything too.
ReplyDeleteNothing too major. We covered regular verbs in 1st year and are now onto irregular verbs (and then eventually irregular irregular verbs).
ReplyDeleteWe were told at the very start of day 1 we would start off with a gentle... test. That's right, first thing back for the year! But it was to see where we were at and also so the lecturer who didn't have us last year could see where we were at.
The very first question sounded like a relatively gentle way back in as we had to write the complete paradigm for Qal Qatal (perfect) of כרת
We all went through the test and marked our own as he walked us through it. The only problem was every second question was a trick question including this first one, with some particular ambiguity that we hadn't covered yet.
As we soon discovered with כרת, when the root ends with ת and the ending ends in ת the first ת and its vowel just disappear. Gah! So much for a gentle easing back in.