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I haz spoke German
Oct. 21st, 2014 06:07 pmAdmittedly not a lot, but a few words and certainly enough to communicate. I was really pleased that all the listening and basic stuff I'd done over the last few months had paid off, in that I could at least recognise basic words in a sentence. And there were a number of occasions when the conversation had reached the second sentence before the other speaker spoke English.
We ordered wine and soup - we ate a lot of soup, but that was because with a large breakfast and a meal in the evening we didn't want lots to eat midday. And by the end of the week I was ordering two soups (plural) rather than two soup (singular). There was, naturally, a lot of hand waving, but that didn't seem to bother people and it was all communication.
I didn't get to buy train tickets in German, but that was because the queue was ridiculously long and the ticket machine spoke English.
Because we were with an English party, so surrounded by English speakers, and expected to speak English by the hotel staff, there was less opportunity just to absorb the language. Next time we go will hopefully be different.
The funniest moment was when I was standing in the street in Koblenz and was approached by two ladies, one of whom began with 'Excuse Me' (German version). I replied 'Englisch' and we all three burst into laughter - there was clearly no point in asking me about the bus details. But again, we'd understood each other.
We ordered wine and soup - we ate a lot of soup, but that was because with a large breakfast and a meal in the evening we didn't want lots to eat midday. And by the end of the week I was ordering two soups (plural) rather than two soup (singular). There was, naturally, a lot of hand waving, but that didn't seem to bother people and it was all communication.
I didn't get to buy train tickets in German, but that was because the queue was ridiculously long and the ticket machine spoke English.
Because we were with an English party, so surrounded by English speakers, and expected to speak English by the hotel staff, there was less opportunity just to absorb the language. Next time we go will hopefully be different.
The funniest moment was when I was standing in the street in Koblenz and was approached by two ladies, one of whom began with 'Excuse Me' (German version). I replied 'Englisch' and we all three burst into laughter - there was clearly no point in asking me about the bus details. But again, we'd understood each other.
