Today in my German class, we were working on the passive voice. We practiced using it by changing active sentences into passive ones, and vice versa. This was one of our practice sentences: Die Heizung war nicht abgestellt worden. In order to put it in active voice, I created this sentence: Niemand hatte die Heizung … Continue reading German Grammar Question: Man v. Jemand/Niemand
I have a problem with German. It has nothing to do with learning the language, a process that is going fairly well. If all goes well with my exam tomorrow, I will be one class away from B1 status. This classifies me as an “independent user” with “threshold or intermediate” language skills, according to the … Continue reading German v. Spanish
Today I took my A2 German test. Assuming all goes well, by Friday I will officially be an A2 German speaker. Woohoo! After finishing the test, I wandered across the street to the Mayersche Buchhandlung. I started browsing their sale books: €3 for one book, €5 for two. I looked for novels or other easy … Continue reading Reading in German
We are almost out of rice. In the past, I probably would have gone to the nearest grocery store, picked up the most convenient bag of generic white rice, and considered the job done. Now that I live with an Iranian, however, I am being educated on the importance of “good” rice. So far, all … Continue reading Language Soup with Rice
I was told for the third time in the past few weeks that I speak German with little to no accent. This is very exciting! Of course, my accent varies wildly based on the setting. When I am very nervous and unsure of myself, I am fairly sure I have a strong American English accent. … Continue reading Speaking without an Accent
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