Guten Morgen - Good morning
Auf Wiedersehen - Goodbye
bitte - please
danke - thank you
and No comprendo
I enjoy hearing the German language, but in some situations it can be quite overwhelming. Crowded McDonald's when you have just been awakened and dragged off a warm bus that you did not want to leave, into the freezing cold to get a burger that you did not want to eat, surrounded by talking people that you can not understand, and then accidentally eating a pickle on your supposedly ketchup-only cheeseburger while suffering through the stares of the locals because of your younger brother who is expressing the way you feel by crying incessantly is a great example. I wanted to get back into that bus, pull on my slippers and curl up again more than is possible to convey through a blog post.
I have been working to expand my already extensive German vocabulary with the following phrases:
Ich verstehe nicht. (I do not understand.)
Es tut mir leid. (I am sorry.)
and
Konnen Sie die Heizung anstellen? (Could you turn the heat on?)
~RM
Rachel, when I read the title of this post on my blogroll, I was thinking, "Isn't that what you are???" haha. Keep at the German, and you'll do wonderfully with your adventures ahead :P Happy Snow-Days!
ReplyDeleteGerman's hard, isn't it? Unlike most languages, which have two genders, German has THREE genders (which is really weird when you think about it).
ReplyDeleteGuten tag, ein madchen! i've been learning german for a while now, Michaiah! I think you'll find the german will begin to get easier very soon. miss you! -hannah
ReplyDelete