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Ergh... I vowed I would finish this essay tonight. Well, since the sun is now coming up and I've still got 800 words or so to go, and my ability to concentrate for longer than 3 minutes without procrastinating left me about the same time as I finished GCSEs, I think I'll be revising that to 'I will finish this before I'll allow myself to sleep'. I don't care what it actually says any more, I've still got to translate the bloody thing into German anyway, but if I don't finish it now then I won't get started on the next one tomorrow, and then I am screwed. So ergh. And yes, I am very bad, and am writing my essays in English and then translating into German. But I do at least now have a German housemate to check them over for me, so hopefully they'll at least make a small amount of sense... lalalalala, am ignoring the fact that I still have two to write. La.

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You're first writing and then translating? Wow, I couldn't do that, for ~~I am way too lazy to think about it again~~ as soon that I've written it down in one language, it just sounds stupid in the other one, no matter what I do.

Finished it by now? :)

Heh, yeah, I know, but somehow although I *speak* pretty much fluent German, somehow when writing in it I lose my train of thought constantly. I guess because academic language is so different to spoken language that I have to look up every second word.

But I'm done with that one now! Starting essay no. 2 right now... ergh.

I used to do the same when I was in school. (Well, the opposite actually, ha.)
First wrote my essays for English & French in German, & then translated them.