Another day at Deutsch Akademie!

I like that we use games in the group sometimes…it does somehow make learning easier! I just hope it all sticks. As the course progresses and things get more complicated, I sometimes begin to feel overwhelmed by how much I still have to learn! For a long time my main difficulty was the grammar, so I worked on this in particular. But now that I understand the grammar better I realise that my vocabulary is not so good! So now I need to remember to try and work on both in equal amounts. One of the things I find the hardest to understand is the cases: nominative, genetiv, akkusitive and dativ. This is something that isnt so much of a part of English. I’m hoping that when my understanding of the vocabulary increases and I get used to reading German sentences, that things such as case will begin to come more naturally. At the moment I find myself looking it up in my book to remind myself!

Like I said in my previous entry, everyone is very friendly on the course. My main friends in Berlin are the friends I already have here, and Lukas of course! I met my friends here when on visits and through acquaintances – I used to know a few people from the UK who lived here. These days my friends tend to be mainly French, Swedish, German and American. At the moment I only know 3 other English people in Berlin! My personal experience is that it is not hard to find a sense of community in Berlin, which of course is a very positive thing!