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January 13, 2007

Learning German

My brother in Germany, Roger, and I share the same father but have different mothers (obviously). This month, his mother, Linda, has come to the US for a visit for a few weeks. Linda is a sweet lady, and she is still in the process of learning English. I've been helping her learn, mostly correcting grammar mistakes.

Now, it's no secret to anyone who knows me that I want to go to Germany very badly. I've always wanted to go to Europe, and having family over there only makes a trip that much more appealing. Now that I've met both Roger and Linda, I think I would feel very comfortable taking a trip across the pond to Deutschland.

I knew that if I wanted to go to Germany, I really needed to begin learning some German. I've been speaking with Linda on a fairly regular basis, and have been picking up some words here and there. I've also acquired some study guides from Amanda's work and a few books from one of my employees at work. This evening, Dad gave me some CDs and books, in addition to a translation device to bring home and use to study. I'm planning on transferring the CD's to my iPod this evening and keeping it and the books he gave me with me to learn as much as I can in as short of a time as possible.

At this point, I'd say that I'm doing pretty good. Amanda and I have been learning German together, and we've gotten the alphabet and numbers 1-100 down at this point. We've also learned some greetings and a few general words to use. I'm in the process of understanding masculine and feminine use of words, things like I, you, he, she, it and more.

I feel like if I do this for a few months, I'll be able to speak fluent German in no time. I just need to keep up my studies ... keeping myself from procrastinating too much.

Wish me luck on the particular journey ... I'm going to need it. :)

Auf Wiedersehen!

... heraus~

Posted by ed at January 13, 2007 09:49 PM

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