#lesson 4

Assignment lesson 4: one point perspective Homework for lesson 5: 1 drawing of an arm and 1 drawing of a hand in Charles Baroque style

Note: Anxiety attack, because I’ve been on the edge of having one all day long. yay.

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Lance stared down at the survey. His hands shook as he examined the paper. He bit his lip to try and stop a deep frown from setting in. His mind raced at what more he could possibly do. Less than half of the Devildom thought the exchange idea was a good idea. Less than half of the Devildom liked him.

“Lance,” he heard his name being spoken by one of the Fantastic Three, but he couldn’t tell who. Not with how loud his heart was pounding.

“I’ve failed,” Lance spoke quietly.

"You did not fail,” he heard Diavolo speak. “This is a huge improvement from when the program first started.”

Lance looked up with a small glare. It was directed at himself than anyone else in the room. His hands clenched the paper tightly, it crumbled under his grip. “If I was better, then the program would—” His breathing started to accelerate. “Then your dream would come true faster and—” Lance gripped his sweater over where his heart was racing. He gasped for air and closed his eyes.

“Lance,” Barbatos sounded. He placed his hands on Lance’s shoulders. “Try to slow your breathing.”

“It’s my fault,” Lance whimpered.

“It most certainly is not,” Barbatos spoke in a stern tone. “You are one of six exchange students. That responsibility does not sit solely on you. Before the program, the number of demons that would even tolerate a human here was close to none.”

“Barbatos is right, you should take pride in what you have accomplished here, Lance,” Lucifer chimed in.

Lance clenched his eyes tighter and the paper crumpled more. He tried to keep his breathing steady, but it only worked him up more. Barbatos rubbed a hand up and down Lance’s arm. “Find something green, Lance.”

Lance opened his eyes and immediately looked at Barbatos’s eyes. He observed the green with specks of yellow. Slowly, his breathing started to calm down. His heart slowed. Taking a deep inhale, Lance leaned forward against Barbatos. “Thank you.”

"It’s the least I could do for everything that you have done for the young lord and for myself,” Barbatos said softly. “You have exceeded our wildest expectations as an exchange student. Don’t doubt your accomplishments.”

“I still want to do more,” Lance said quietly, as though he were guilty of not doing that yet.

“And you will. It will just take some time. Once you become a student council officer, which I have no doubt that you will, the rest of the Devildom will warm up to the exchange program and you.”

“Yes, and we could have Mephistopheles write some positive articles on you. It wouldn’t help have good press,” Diavolo spoke with confidence.

Lance groaned. “I hate interviewing with the press.”

"It will be Mephistopheles, so you don’t have to worry about him warping your words to fit his narrative. He may come off as self-important, but he does care about reporting the facts and being thorough in getting the story right,” Diavolo explained.

“He may make some unflattering stickers of you,” Lucifer grumbled.

Lance paused. “They were cute, though. If he did that, they could make the exchange students more relatable? Unless they can’t take us seriously and that’s why they don’t like us.” Lance held his chin with a hand as he thought. “Stickers might work well for all of the exchange students, make them collectibles if they get to know us more. The more they get to know us, the more they might like us.”

‘Lesson 4 (Tablo's Word)’ Lyric Poster - 24″x36″ / Image detail, B&W and color variant

The truth is toothless Two-faced, ruthless Crude taste, suitcase The truth is a moot case

Wow.. I can’t believe someone is dumb AND curious enough to follow a stranger’s voice. In the Dark. Wasn’t Corpse Party Enough?

안녕, 여러분! Hey, everyone! Welcome to this next lesson! I want to show you a pretty common sentence pattern in Korean: -ㄹ/을 까요? This is used to ask questions such as “Shall we...?” and “I wonder...?” Let’s start!

First, let’s talk about how we’ve learned to ask questions in Korean in previous lessons. There are so many different ways to ask questions, and so far we know the most basic one. We know that we can simply add a question mark to an otherwise normal sentence. For example:

이집은 커요 = This house is big

이집은 커요? = Is this house big?

So we know how to ask those kinds of questions. But what about these kinds of questions?

Shall we go together? Where shall we go? What shall we do?

This is where our new sentence pattern comes in. If you want to ask if you shall/should do something, you can used this formula:

Verb stem + ㄹ/을 까요?

Attach ㄹ to a verb stem ending in a vowel. 

Attach 을 to a verb stem ending in a consonant.

Let’s look at some examples!

1. 파티에 같이 갈까요? = Shall we go to the party together?

파티 = party

같이 = together (pronounced like 갓치)

가다 = to go

가 + ㄹ/을 까요? = 갈까요? = Shall we go? (could also mean “shall I go?”)

파티에 같이 갈까요? = Shall we go to the party together?

2. 더 줄까요? = Shall I give you more?

더 = more

주다 = to give

주 + ㄹ/을 까요? = 줄까요? = Shall I give it?

더 줄까요? = Shall I give you more?

This could also be translated as “do you want more?” I once heard a mother say “더 줄까?” to her child when feeding it, for example. 

3. 열쇠를 어디 찾을까요? = Where shall we look for the keys?

열쇠 = key(s) 

어디 = where

찾다 = to look for / to find

찾 + ㄹ/을 까요? = 찾을까요? = Shall we look for (noun)? / Shall we find (noun)? 

열쇠를 어디 찾을까요? = Where shall we look for the keys? / Where shall we find the keys? / Where shall I look for the keys?

4. 어떡할까요? = What shall we do? / What to do?

This is a very common phrase that you hear when people are in a panic/feel hopeless or something like that. I’m not exactly sure how to translate the word 어떡하다, but just focus on the meaning for now! For example, if you lose your wallet with a bunch of cash in it, in English you could say “Oh no! What am I going to do?” This is essentially the Korean equivalent of that. You hear “어떡해요?” more often, however (same meaning).

어떡하 + ㄹ/을 까요? = 어떡할까요? = What should I do?

There’s also another way to use this pattern. In English, we can say sentences like “I wonder if the weather will be nice tomorrow?” or “I wonder if the shoes are expensive?” or “I wonder why she’s sad?” In Korean, however, we don’t really say “I wonder.” Rather, we use this sentence ending! Let’s translate these examples!

1. 내일은 날씨가 좋을까요? = I wonder if the weather will be nice tomorrow?

좋다 = to be good / to be nice

좋 + ㄹ/을 까요? = 좋을까요? = I wonder if it will be good?

내일은 날씨가 좋을까요? = I wonder if the weather will be nice tomorrow?

I suppose that literally, this sentence could be translated as “will the weather be nice tomorrow?” But it isn’t really like asking someone else about the weather. It’s more just like you wondering out loud, hence why a better translation would include “I wonder” in it. Think of it like “do you think the weather tomorrow will be nice?” The other person may not know the answer, if that makes sense. 

2. 신발이 비쌀까요? = I wonder if the shoes are expensive?

신발 = shoes

비싸다 = to be expensive

비싸 + ㄹ/을 까요? = 비쌀까요? = I wonder if it’s expensive?

신발이 비쌀까요? = I wonder if the shoes are expensive?

Again, I don’t think it would be natural to ask this question to a clerk at a shoe store lol. It’s more like thinking out loud--just wondering. If you wanted to ask an employee if they are expensive, you’d probably be better off just saying “신발이 비싸요?”

3. 그녀가 왜 슬플까요? = I wonder why she’s sad?

슬프다 = to be sad

슬프 + ㄹ/을 까요? = 슬플까요? = I wonder if he/she/they/it is sad?

그녀가 왜 슬플까요? = I wonder why she’s sad? (그녀가 may be dropped if it’s understood who you’re talking about based on the context.)

Notice that you can also add question words like 왜 to say something like this.

This wouldn’t exactly mean “why is she sad?” If the person you’re talking to wouldn’t know why this girl is sad, you can ask this question to mean “why do you think she’s sad?” If the other person did know why, you could just ask “그녀가 왜 슬퍼요?” I hope this distinction is clear!

These questions are all formal, so to make them informal simply drop the 요 as usual! For example: 파티에 같이 갈까? and 내일은 날씨가 좋을까? 

As someone that has struggled with an eating disorder and body dysmorphia for a significant part of my life, this quote really really hit home.  1989 was actually a really difficult era for me to watch Taylor on because she was so so so thin. I loved the music but I was in such a dark place and seeing Taylor and all of her VS model friends with similarly small frames was HARD.

Thank you, @taylorswift for bringing visibility to body acceptance and positivity along with so many other important issues.

Singular Indefinite - ‘A/an’ in Danish

In Danish there are two versions for ‘a/an’. Namely, ‘en’ and ‘et’. Nouns using ‘en’ are said to have the gender ‘fælleskøn’ (literal translation: common gender) and nouns using ‘et’ to have the gender ‘intetkøn’ (literal translation: non gender). I will refer to nouns using ‘en’ as ‘en-nouns’ and nouns using ‘et’ as et-nouns.

Here are some examples for nouns using ‘en’ (fælleskøn):

En abe = a monkey

En hund = a dog

En bil = a car

En bog = a book

Examples for nouns using ‘et’ (intetkøn):

Et skib = a ship

Et æble = an apple

Et tæppe = a blanket

Et fjernsyn = a television

Unfortunately, there are no rules for when to use ‘en’ or ‘et’. This is something that you will have to memorize. However, about 75% of the nouns are en-nouns. If you mess this up it will sound unnatural but Danes will understand what you are talking about. When you are learning a new noun try your best to memorize whether it uses ‘en’ or ‘et’.

Fun fact: Sometimes even Danes can mess up when to use ‘en’ and ‘et’. Especially with the word ‘hamster’ (meaning hamster). You will hear some Danes say “en hamster” and some say “et hamster”. The correct version is: en hamster.

Singular Definite - ‘The’ in Danish (definite)

In English you put ‘the’ in front of a noun when talking about a specific “something” (e.g. the cat). In Danish it’s a little different. In Danish you add an ending to the noun. The ending is dependent on whether the noun is an en-noun (fælleskøn) or an et-noun (intetkøn).

If it is an en-noun (fælleskøn) you add -en as an ending. Example:

En hund (a dog) becomes hunden (the dog)

En bil (a car) becomes bilen (the car)

If it is an ‘et’-noun (intetkøn) you add -et as an ending.

Et skib (a ship) becomes skibet (the ship)

Et fjernsyn (a television) becomes fjernsynet (the television)

In other words: you just move ‘en’ or ‘et’ behind the noun!

Some exceptions:

If a noun is ending on -e such as in the nouns ‘abe’ (translation: monkey) and ‘tæppe’ (translation: blanket or rug) you just omit the ‘e’ from ‘en’ and ‘et’ and add -n or -t instead (depending on whether it’s an en-noun or et-noun). In other words, you omit the double ‘e’. Example:

En abe   becomes aben (not abeen!)

Et tæppe becomes tæppet (not tæppeet!)

Some nouns gets an extra consonant when conjugated. Let’s look at the noun ‘kat’, which means ‘cat’ in English:

En kat becomes katten

Here is an example of an et-noun ‘glas’ which means ‘glass’ in English:

Et glas becomes glasset