Monthly Archives: April 2009

My language school in Berlin

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Hi again!

First day at my language school in Berlin. I bet all of you have sweet memories of that… for me, this time it was a bit nostalgic – when I finished the University, I thought I’d never sit and listen for hours like that again – and I still didn’t, ‚cause this is something completely different. We have a great group with 9 other people from different countries and cultures (Bolivia, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Denmark, Canada, France, Sweden) with the age from 18 to 51 years, and each of them is interesting in a way – that’s how our first task, to get to know eachother with asking basic german starting questions lasted a bit longer than our teacher expected.. It was also a surprise for me that I could still talk in german (it was a few years back that I last used the language, as a surf instructor), and it was really exciting. We spoke a lot, which was great, and I’m not as bad at it as I expected. Anne, our teacher is very helpful, and understands if we have issues with grammar, although she always corrects the spoken mistakes as well, which is a great way of improving.

Before the first day at the Academy we spent the weekend looking around in Berlin, and found a great lake (although it didn’t happen by chance, since I saw it from the plane when we were landing), which is called Müggelsee. Before that I couldn’t imagine a city to have an entire lake with sailboats, sandy beach, pine forests on the shore – it’s just amazing! I took some pictures (including this one in the entry, which was taken while I stood in the ice cold water), if you are interested, visit my Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/liebergabor/BerlinMuggelsee#

That’s for today, see you next time!
Gabor

M1(2)

Hallo.

Ich habe einen Monat Pause gehabt.

Heute beginne ich den Kurs m 1(2). Ich habe eine neue Klasse und einen neuen Lehrer. In meiner Klasse sind vier Leute mit mir. Eine Frau aus Russland, eine aus Korea, ein Mann aus Spanien und ich. Wir haben heute eine Lektion Organisation und Grammatik. Ich habe diesen Kurs m 1(2) um 12 Uhr bis 15 Uhr.

Vor der Schule bin ich zum Jopp gegangen. Nach der Schule esse ich mit meinem Michael Mittagessen. Wir haben heute Wienerschnitzel mit Kartoffelsalat.

Guten Appetit euch allen :-)

Hanna

Monat Vier Deutsche Klassen

Heute beginne ich meinen vierten Monat in der DeutschAkademie. Freitag bin ich mit meinen Klassenkameraden in das Hamburger Museum gegangen. Während wir im Museum waren, habe ich mit meiner Lehrerin über mein Deutsch gesprochen. Sie hat mir einen Tandem-Partner empfohlen. Am Freitag Abend habe ich eine Anzeige auf der Website der TU geschaltet. Am Sonntag habe ich mit meinem Tandem-Partner getroffen! Wir werden uns zwei Mal pro Woche treffen. Ich kann nicht glauben, wie viel es hilft.

Die Adresse der Website ist:
http://www2.tu-berlin.de/fak1/skb/php/start_engl.html

Introduction

Lieber Gábor

Hi all! My name is Lieber Gábor – and I know, but this sounds funny only in German.. So, I’m a fresh student of DeutschAkademie, and also a new author of this blog. As I noticed, almost everyone writes here in German,  still I’ll begin in English. On one hand, I’m not that good in written German (that’s the main reason I took the course), on the other hand, for the readers and possible students of the Academy it may be better to read information on a language they can already understand (I know I found it hard to read the entries of this blog first).

So, I come from Hungary, and I’ve only been in Berlin, Germany since the 1st of April. I came here to be with my girlfriend who got a great job at an architectural office beginning in March.

Besides from learning at the Academy, and trying to explore this beautiful city together, I still have some work to do for my ex-firma (I worked as designer for civil engineering projects back in Hungary), and in the rest of the day I usually keep looking for job advertisements online and in local newspapers.

As for starters, I can say that it’s quite exciting just to live here, and I’ll try to post my photos and new experiences regularly here, so that you can get a taste of my point of view.

See you, Gabor

Der Letzte Tag?!

Heute ist der letzte Tag in meiner Sprachschule in Berlin. Ich habe den Kurs 2A beendet. Ich fühle, dass die Zeit manchmal sehr schnell vergeht.

Ich bin jetzt glücklich und auch traurig. Katharina hat heute den Kurs sehr interessant gemacht, obwohl wir viel Grammatik lernen müssen. Ich habe das schon vielmals gesagt, aber ich muss es noch einmal sagen: sie hat alles wirklich deutlich erklärt. Beide, sie und Wiebke, haben den Unterricht sehr lustig gemacht. Man muss glücklich sein, wenn sie die Lehrerin ist.

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Bis zum nächsten mal! ;)

Toi toi toi!
Jian

— auf Englisch —

ps: It has been a real pleasure learning German here, though i have to admit that it really is challenging, even more so that I am not having full time dedication to the language. Also hope that my mistakes throughout this month of blogging here will not be too critically criticized. 8 weeks of German could only get me this far. Please also excuse some of my „Quatsch“ sometimes. Not too sure on whether I would be blogging for the next month as things is getting very piled up now, and i have to say that it really did crack my head a little to come out with these few sentences, in German.. Anyway, thanks very much for reading and till then… alles ist gut~!