The past couple of months have been spent filling my brain with German sounds, vocabulary, and grammar. And even though I probably know several hundred words, I feel like I’m back at square one when someone talks to me. However, several weeks ago I just heard several sounds stringed together; at least now I recognize words. “Genau” (exactly) seems to be a Swiss favorite. Learning/memorizing each nouns’ genders has been a challenge, but applying that knowledge to the verbs has been mind boggling. Through this interesting, difficult, and definitely humorous task I was amazed to learned this following fact: not everyone calls countries by the same name! For example, the Swiss call Germany - “Deutschland.” Americans would say I live in Switzerland - not the Swiss - I actually live in “Schweiz.” Who knew? Anyway, the learning German continues.... I look forward to the day when I can have a German conversation with a clerk or just a random person on the train.
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