Well, it´s been a month since I got my arse in gear and typed some words of wisdom onto the old interweb. I am struggling a touch as this is being typed on a German keyboard. Zou probablz don´t have the first idea what the difference is but trust me, zou would be fayed if zou knew. Saying that, the abilitz to tzpe Göethe or Äpfel and Proßer (that´s me) makes it all worthwhile.



Which brings me to German as a language. After a five year break I restarted my German lessons this week. They say it´s like riding a bike, in which case it´s a bloody strange bike. My teacher said I had a good vocabulary but had a lot of bad habits. I was surprised that she knew me so well after only half an hour and during that time I didn´t fart once or pick my nose. Then she explained that my most obvious bad habits were grammatical. That came as a surprise and a bit of a bonus.

What did I learn? Firstly, I can count to twenty. Secondly, I can conjugate the verb Sein and Haben. Thirdly, I have a 33% hit-rate on the Die, Der and Das´s. Finally, I need to put more verbs at the end of sentences.

I have two lessons a week for the next couple of months. I hope as time goes by that I will start to write more and more of this in German and that this lovely new keyboard (attached to a quite wonderful MacBook) will help me with my ÖÄÜ´s and ßßßßßßßß´s.

Danke.