7 Mar
2000
7 Mar
'00
1:38 p.m.
Christian,
It hasn't helped me. I took 5 years of college German and speak less than
the average German 2 year old. Honestly, it's humiliating, because I'm
still in the habit of telling people that I know some German...only to
stumble on the most basic words and sentence structure. I think it would
come back pretty quick, but I don't have the time (or energy) to study it
on my own, and very little opportunity to use it in a practical setting
(despite Hans' brave attempt to try to understand my gibberish).
I still have a large bookshelf full of German classics; someday, someday.
Aaron
Servus Hans,
I warned Sellam about this but he said he's willing to go ahead with it!
;-) The cat's out of the bag now! I know well what it's like to try to
learn German and after about eight years of periodic, unofficial, random
self-teaching I can just about speak short simple sentences. If German was
still taught in the schools around here I would have attempted to get
tutoring would be much better I think. If he does in fact come to
understand spoken High German he'll get confused hearing the Bavarian
tongue though. I know! ;-) Heh heh heh . . .
Bis später, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
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