Foreign Perspectives

The English course that I’m doing started off nice and gradually with a history of the English language all the way back to its origins as a dialect of Frisian and motoring at a fair pace up to the establishment of the colonies and arrival of Colonial English.

Now we’re moving into a section which you’d think would be easy enough to follow as I’ve obviously been using it all my life: English grammar. Except, of course, that schools haven’t taught English grammar for a very long time indeed and therefore large chunks of it are only any way familiar to me as I’d learnt a number of the terms in French and Spanish earlier. That actually doesn’t make it a whole lot easier though as English is a completely different type of language and therefore many of the terms I’ve had to start going over are quite different from any that I’ve seen before.

Still, at least there’s only one more section of this part of the course and then it’s onto something completely different.