Today, we continued to learn the different countries and their languages and locations. We found out that Germany has at least 9 different neighbouring countries. Munich is actually like a melting pot of nationalities with people from all over the world. You can tell just from all the peeps at DeutschAkademie, all the English signs everywhere and in the architecture around the city too. Apparently one of the monarchs back in the day, married into the Greek ruling class and so there are many greek mythological statues around the place. You can see many of them at Schloss Nymphenburg.

It seems like things are coming together too with the language lessons too. Yesterday, we got our results back from the test and I did quite well with only a few silly mistakes (like forgetting full-stops – yeah, they do have that here too). Many of us in the class did well too and so we are all feeling more confident now. Notably, our comprehension is growing and our teacher announced that we therefore need another test – tomorrow!!! We are already on Unit 4 so will be doing another on Monday as well. I guess we are really away now.

In light of this we were enlightened with “past tense” and how to apply possession to an item. Welcome to “Akkusativ & Praeteritum”. Yes, it has begun, the wonderful world of German Grammar.

We all seemed to be picking it up quite well but then our teacher advised that the Akkusativ is only for certain verbs and changes only masculine bestimmt & unbestimmt Artikel word endings. OH MY WORD!!!! Can it be that I am actually getting the hang of this. Check out that lingo?!!??? I guess the test will tell next week… or maybe sooner. Tomorrow night many of us are getting together with other international students for dinner in a Tapas bar. It should be quite fun – so watch this space!!!!