Category Archives: Germany
overhead adjectives
I took this picture mostly because I can’t remember the last time I saw someone use an overhead projector: It’s my German teacher going over the definite and indefinite articles and adjective endings for what must be about the 10 … Continue reading
Deutsch sprechen
My measure of success in a foreign language is being able to get through transactions at stores – stores where you have to talk, not supermarkets – without the other person switching to English. I’m achieving this in German, so, … Continue reading
sweet woodruff
Yeah, this is the life. This afternoon after German class and a walking tour of one of the cooler neighborhoods in Berlin, three other Burns fellows and I stopped in at a biergarten. Hey, we were talking about journalism and … Continue reading
prefixes are my nemesis
This is the homework assignment I just wrote for tomorrow’s German class: Die Frau sitzt neben dem Telefon. Sie erwartet einen Anruf. Wann Als sie das Haus verlassen hatverlies, brannte es. Gibt es jetzt noch ein Haus? Wird sie heimgehen … Continue reading
flying is not that fun anymore
The most annoying thing about Europe is the trouble it takes to get here. My flying experience, I must say, was really not that nice. The first flight, from Dulles to Newark, was in a turboprop, and it started out … Continue reading
deutschland, here I come
Before leaving for six weeks in the Bering Sea this spring, I blogged kind of a lot about my preparations. I mean, I had to take steel-toed boots and a survival suit and stuff. Preparing for 10 weeks in Germany … Continue reading
Stahlkappenstiefel
At a party on Saturday I learned the German word for steel-toed boots – and, yes, of course, it is only one word – Stahlkappenstiefel. Or something to that effect. Why was I speaking German at the Bering Sea Sendoff? … Continue reading