School & Work: Good Start

My Hebrew class starts Tuesday. Yay! I'm working on my application to the new CELTA course (tl;dr - the old one dicked me around one time too many so I found one in my time zone that starts in January). It's not hard - I've done this before - and I have my handy Practical English Usage by Paul Raymond to assist, but wow. Brain worky hard. Let me try to explain by relating English to other languages I've studied.

Spanish: Why yes there are fifty bajillion verb tenses, why are you crying?
French: A phonetic alphabet is for chumps.
Russian: Mangling vowels is for the greatness of MOTHER RUSSIA!
Hungarian: We don't sound like Klingon, Klingon sounds like us. A horse prick up your ass!
Yiddish: Take Middle German. Subtract a vowel shift. Add in influence from Slavic languages and Hebrew. Write in the Hebrew alphabet. Spread across Eastern and Central Europe. Good luck getting a Litvak and a Galitzianer to speak a mutually intelligible dialect. Maybe that's why they're always insulting each other.
Hebrew: Good morning my naughty boys and girls, we're going to learn about word roots, and no, I don't know why a haircut has the same word root as a book, a story, and a number.

Finally there's English:

English: Because fuck you, that's why.

And yet, my love of language remains undimmed.