In daily life, there is always these instances when you have to make an excuse for either being late or to not show up at all. Some maybe predetermined and some maybe actually true. Whatever the case conveying them in German is important. Don’t let the scary word Entschuldigung scare you, you will get used to it. Also, you could say tut mir leid (I am sorry) but I have heard it less in public.

We learned a lot of new vocabulary apart from the ones which are highlighted on top of the page in the kursbuch. The ones highlighted were regular household stuff like Licht (light), Handtuch (handtowel), Föhn (hairdryer) etc. Especially in the text which in is each chapter there are tons of new words describing a scenario. One of the scenarios we went through was when 2 people got stuck in the elevator and the conversation that followed. Can’t believe an elevator can malfunction since German engineering can never fail so how can this ever happen!

Sudeep