Nisam pocetnica.

(That means “I am not a beginner.”)

I am no longer a beginner at the Serbian language. I passed my written test yesterday & my oral test today with ‘very good’ marks – the highest.

It’s good that my Serbian is improving because my other language abilities are atrophying. I am putting together the ‘About the Authors’ page for a reader ZuC is publishing, which means I get to google people. The first target of my online stalking was the Argentinean coordinator of Catholics for a Free Choice. Unsurprisingly, much of the info was in Spanish. I stared at articles, thinking ‘I know I used to know that word, but now I have no idea what it means’ and being thankful for online Spanish-English dictionaries.

And it’s not only my Spanish that’s regressing. I am losing some English. I couldn’t define ‘overzealous’ yesterday. I also couldn’t come up with the word for a trail that a lot of people have walked on. Well-trodden, right? And I still don’t know if I should refer to the test I took this morning as an oral test, spoken test, or verbal test.

Terrible.