Day 9: work vocabulary and more practice

I sent out about 25 emails to people who might be interested in language exchange a week or so ago, and finally got one email back, from a computer programmer in Italy. He asked what I do, which meant now it was time to learn vocabulary to describe my weird role. “Io non un doctori/scienziati, ma sono molto bene a interpretamo dati medici sul cancro pazienti. Io leggo dati pazienti di ospedale e scrivo nuovo dati per doctori e scienzati. Anch'io programmo (con Oracle), con dati di doctori e scienziati. Loro usianno il Oracle apps e scrivo del ricercare.“ (“I am not a doctor/scientist, but I am very good at interpreting medical data of cancer patients. I read patient data from the hospital and write new data for doctors and scientists. I also program (with Oracle), with data for doctors and scientists. They use the apps to write research.”)

It’s definitely a laborious process - writing that yesterday took about twenty minutes. But the fact that I can write a semi-legible paragraph (with the help of translators to find words I didn’t yet know, like “patient”, “medical data”, “hospital”, “research”, the verbs for “to program” and “to interpret”, and “scientist”) is great progress.

Other than that, it’s just been conjugation practice, particularly on memorizing irregular verb endings. Why all the most important verbs have to be irregular, I don’t know. But there’s no way through that but practice.

No need for a “what I can do now” since there’s an example up above. :)