overlap

It's been a funny and rather continental week. I've spent a whole day watching a news story develop in French, with enough specialist knowledge to read between the lines as well as take in the face value of what was being said. And after spending much of saturday harvesting music from youtube, I've spent a couple of days listening to a German band that I haven't listened to in ages. To the point where I'm on the verge of booking flights and tickets to go and see them in Germany later this year, since I'm pretty confident I'm not going to see them turn up anywhere closer. It would be misleading to say absolutely everything has come back and I'm at the height of my linguistic powers, but it's rather reassuring just how much does come back with a little practice, and how quickly.