More and more of my German is coming back to me

[annathepiper]

The German class I'm taking at the UW's Experimental College isn't exactly challenging me — it's going at a pretty simple pace. But I am finding that it's reminding me a lot of how to say random simple things, coming up out of the back of my memory from high school. Hopefully this trend will continue, as I get this chick Inga I met online via our mutual TOFOG fandom to help me out with my German in email. Tonight, I have written her a fairly decent-length little email, though it took me a considerable amount of time to write it because I had to look up something for practically every sentence I wrote; it was particularly challenging to figure out how to say that I'd been laid off last October. I'm about ninety percent sure I sound fairly decent all in all in that email, though! :)

Comments

[shaylith.livejournal.com]

Das ist schoen, das du deine Deutsch erinnerst! Viel Glueck damit, na? :)

Vielen Danke! ^_^

[annathepiper]

Gestern abend schrieb ich eine Deutsche E-mail zur meine Freundin Inga! Und ich verstehe auch deine Nachricht!

Re: Vielen Danke! ^_^

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ich sollte mal meine alte deutsche Perry Rhodan bucher wieder lesen... Ich habe zuviel Deutsch vergessen.

Re: Vielen Danke! ^_^

[annathepiper]

Für dich, hat ich mein Wörterbuch fragen! Sagst du, "I was supposed to read my old German Perry Rhodan books again"? :)

Re: Vielen Danke! ^_^

[janne.livejournal.com]

(Switching back in English mode)
My german is very rusty, but I was trying for 'I ought to read' some of my old german books again. Perry Rhodan being an amusing german science fiction pulp serial =)

Re: Vielen Danke! ^_^

[annathepiper]

Ah cool. :) Yeah, Dar mentioned that Perry Rhodan was natively German. I'd like to see if I could get a hold of German copies of my favorite books and see how well I can make it through 'em. I saw a German translation of The Hobbit once, but didn't get it at the time... I rather regret that, now.