Words and Sounds

When I started this blog, I had an idea how I wanted each entry to sound. I wanted it to be chill, a descriptive view of how I see things. Something that would be interesting to the reader. I really like Donald Miller's style of writing. I think if you go back and look at my school papers you'd see that this is the most comfortable writing style for me. If I ever write a book, it'll be written in first person. I like coming from my view of things. How things play out in my mind, written as if I were describing an event, or thing, to someone else. Of course I get to use better adjectives writing it on a blog as opposed to speaking out loud. There are some words, I'm sure, that were meant to be written, not used in every day speech. A lot of times because they look better on paper (or screen) than they sound spoken. I'm sure I misuse adjectives on here, but sometimes you just need a nifty sounding word to make an other wise dull sentence sound interesting. I have a thesaurus on my iPhone that I use when blog writing, or writing youth messages. I'm a fan of words. The more interesting the better. Average every day language isn't nearly as interesting written as it is spoken.
I was thinking about this because I've been working on my Ukrainian. Words in other languages are interesting, especially if you know what they mean. Unfortunately,  you can't stick random Ukrainian words into English like you might with French or Spanish. Its so completely different than English. They have their own alphabet complete with oddly shaped letters  that are extremely difficult to write. And they have letters that are shaped like English letters, but having a completely different sound. And they have letters that are backward English letters. Those are hard to write. When you are so used to correctly spelling things, to having to write letters backwards...sometimes I think my brain can't handle it. And don't get me started on pronunciation. Its so odd to make my mouth form words in a completely different ways. Letters and sounds that are never formed in English are difficult for an English speaking person to speak. My mouth isn't trained to make those sounds, or to put such odd sounds together to make a word that could be remotely understood by a Ukrainian speaking person. Its strange how words are formed, and made. It must have been a headache at the Tower of Babel. So many languages, no one able to understand the next person, the frustration of not being able to get your point across. Its so relieving to actually hear words you know. Like after being in another country for a long time, and then finally hearing an American speaking a language you understand. As much as I love traveling and going to different countries, it is always nice to hear the familiarity of your own tongue. To be able to communicate without the aid of a translator. Its a nice, independent feeling. I hope to someday be in a foreign language speaking country and be able to communicate with the ease I do in the U.S.