I've specifically asked help from two of my closest German friends, Marcus and Marco (not related. LOL!). Just to differentiate the two, Marcus (Marcus Grohmann) is from Hamburg and is an engineer who works for Airbus, while Marco (Marco ***) is from a suburb near Frankfurt and is a clinical psychologist. We already chat regularly but we've agreed that we would engage in voice conversations as well, through Skype and Yahoo Voice Chat.
I will also make it a point to immerse myself with as much German stuff as possible. I will definitely improve on my collection of German songs in my iPod. Currently, I only have three: Und Wenn Ein Lied by Söhne Mannheims, Engel Fliegen Einsam by Christina Stürmer, and Ohne Dich by Selig. I will also improve on the number of German films that I've watched. At the moment, I've only seen snippets of "What To Do In Case Of Fire (Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt?) when I chanced upon it on HBO. I have to admit that it was not the German language that convinced me to cease my channel surfing and stick with the movie but Til Schweiger's handsome face.
Aside from these, there are lots of learning resources online. The DWTV site has some German language learning modules.
Lucky you! I'm sure you'll learn a lot from your friends. Don't forget to share with us in class anything interesting you learn from them, eh? :)
ReplyDeleteI tried doing the Cafe dialogue with my friend Markus earlier today and I felt a bit strange and was caught off guard, I expected his replies to be similar to the examples we had in class but I often ended up using google translate to understand his words.
ReplyDeleteI've learned some new phrases such as:
"Wie viele?"
"Genauso"
"Na los, bestell mal!"
"ein Kännchen Kaffee"