We’re into our third day of the 1A course now and I think everyone’s starting to feel like they’re making some progress.  We’re now able to write and speak a simple dialogue to each other, and seem to be building on what we can say in every lesson.  My list of new sentences learnt is definitely getting longer by the day! And now includes: ‘My name is…’ (Ich heisse Caroline), ‘I am …years old’ (Ich bin 24 jahre alt), ‘I come from…’(Ich komme aus England), ‘I live in…’ (Ich wohne in Schwabing, Muenchen), ‘I can speak….’, (Ich spreche Englisch und etwas Japanisch), and ‘I am…’ (Ich bin Lehrerin) to name just a few.To practice the numbers we learnt yesterday, Bettina suggested that we played Bingo.   If you don’t know what Bingo is, it’s a gambling game mainly played in the UK, US and Australia.  Players each get a grid of random numbers, and then mark off numbers on their grid as they are randomly called out.  If you mark off a complete row, column or straight diagonal of numbers, you shout “Bingo” and you win a prize.  In the UK Bingo is big business – there are huge Bingo halls in every town, which often link up to country wide games where the winner can pocket hundreds of thousands of pounds.  Of course, this wasn’t the case with our Bingo game ;)

Anyway…we had a go at Bingo and it turned out to be really good fun. I managed to win the first game and got to call out the numbers for some of the next game, which was good practice at pronouncing words in German (the bit I’m definitely finding the hardest! )