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Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:19 (UTC)Heh :) The actual "learning" bit was pretty sparse. Not to toot my own horn too much, I think there's not a lot I need to learn about grammar... and the lessons were geared mostly towards beginners, with basic vocabulary which I still remembered. (I did notice, when speaking with some fairly fluent speakers, how many words I had forgotten, though.)
The course was fairly chaotic and it was often difficult for the teacher to "get through" to the students... wasn't helped by the fact that most of the people seemed to be treating it as a social gathering and tended to ignore the teacher. The best course of action might have been to ignore the teacher as well and converse with some of the more fluent speakers, just to get some practise.
But... yeah. I did learn a couple of interesting etymologies, though (e.g. "Is {Ha'DIbaH} from {Ha', DIbaH}?"). There are a fair number of puns in Klingon words.