18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: Reading rec question

[mildred_of_midgard]

eeeeek! I can follow it in English, because that's how I write naturally, but following that kind of thing in a foreign language is Right Out.

Right? I'm pretty sure I couldn't have handled it right up until this month, but my German's been improving in leaps and bounds since January. So last week I was a bit like, "Hold my beer while I read these 20-line convoluted sentences." :P

(And then had insomnia strike HARD this week, so despite the sentences about Matilda of Tuscany being so much easier that it almost feels like cheating, I've read hardly anything. Sigh.)

I've actually been pretty good since then at reading a page or two every day of French

Ah, good! I was wondering how that was going. I'm glad to hear it's going well! I was hoping to be ready for French by now, but...I persevere with German. I'm now hoping to be ready by the end of 2022!