people sometimes tell me - usually when i’m being hard on myself - that my german is better than i think it is, but here’s the thing: being able to order things at restaurants and joke about the weather doesn’t seem good enough to me, at least not when it comes to settling into and really
Your dad was amazing. And you do a great job of enfolding larger meaning in the story, but we don't get that nugget til the end - wonderful. And I promise to never again say you probably speak better German than you think you do hahah!
gaww i wasn't referring to you though! it's more the germans who i actually fumble around when speaking to them (mostly Ulrich & his kids)... i feel like it should be so obvious to them that i don't fit in, how could they really think i'm able to get by?! i'll explain better in my next e-mail hopefully hehe ;)<3
Hahah I didn't take offense! I just thought of my last email - but honestly, it was a great post on so many levells one of those being that instead of "telling" people we should just "believe"people
Your dad was amazing. And you do a great job of enfolding larger meaning in the story, but we don't get that nugget til the end - wonderful. And I promise to never again say you probably speak better German than you think you do hahah!
gaww i wasn't referring to you though! it's more the germans who i actually fumble around when speaking to them (mostly Ulrich & his kids)... i feel like it should be so obvious to them that i don't fit in, how could they really think i'm able to get by?! i'll explain better in my next e-mail hopefully hehe ;)<3
Hahah I didn't take offense! I just thought of my last email - but honestly, it was a great post on so many levells one of those being that instead of "telling" people we should just "believe"people