On Thursday we had a special visit of two Easter bunnies that came to the DeutschAkademie with chocolate eggs to wish to my classmates and me a happy Easter “Frohe Ostern”! This was a sweet present of them.

Then a question came up, why eggs and why rabbits? Nobody knew the answer so we started talking about which are the Easter traditions worldwide, as we come from different countries and cultures around the world, as in some of them Easter is not celebrated we change the topic,  also following our book, to different traditions during the year. Everybody was talking about their own country so was a productive class learning German and diverse cultures.

In the third lesson of B1.1 my teacher gave to my classmates and me some important rules and tips to study German. First of all, and one of the most important rules, the verb is the “König” and the preposition the “Königin”, what it means? In each sentence which determines if you use Nominativ, Dativ or Akkusativ is the verb, then the article. Second, as you need to remember it, while you are learning the verbs add to the word, the translation to your mother tongue, the präteritum, and the case Dativ or Akkusativ, in my case I use flash cards, I show you an example of it.  On the other hand always that you are memorizing a noun add always the article and the plural form, so for instance, the flower – die Blume, die Blumen (Pl.)

My classmates come from different countries, Nigeria, China, Ukraine, Brazil, Palestina, Irak, Bosnia, Italy, Venezuela and me from Colombia, all of us are agree with the same reason of why we are learning German, even we could say at the same time “to work” if you want to live in Germany, to have a job or to interact with Germans, first step learn German.

A friend that has been living here in Germany for almost 10 years added a couple of things, like learn German, see Tatort every weekend, learn German, use sandals with socks in summer, learn German, go at least once per year to Mallorca to holidays, learn German, eat Schnitzel (at least in Bavaria) and learn German. And finally she added, then you will feel that you will start thinking as a German, so as you saw the most important thing here is speak German, doesn’t matter the reason, it could be for joy, to study, for a job, to travel, anything, find your motivation and Learn German.