Quote:I got Rosetta Stone for German last Christmas and started on it but then got derailed by surgery. It's hard to concentrate when on pain meds and muscle relaxers! I plan to start it again. When I lived there I learned enough to get around, order in restaurants, and very basic conversation, but that's been over a decade ago now so I've lost 99.9% of it. The downside to learning over there is once they knew you spoke English they wanted to practice their English with you while you wanted to practice your German with them. Some of the conversations were funny. 

 

Let me know when you're starting it and maybe we can compare notes and speak in code here so people wonder what we're saying. Lol.  :ph34r:

 

As for life.... I don't know how old you are but I'm coming up on 45 in a few months and it's like every time I think I have stuff figured out I find out I don't know jack. Sometimes it's really cool and sometimes it sucks worse than the Jags record during the Gus Era. 

 

We can't speak in code, anyone can copy and paste into Google Translate and read what we're saying. 

 

<span>Ich habe bereits begonnen, Deutsch zu lernen.</span>

 

<span>My wife is from Taiwan, so I tried learning Mandarin Chinese.  I got a little way, but it was difficult.   Our travels led me to learn a little Italian and a little French.  In Italy, they all want to speak English with you.  I finally encountered a little old lady in Rome who knew no English and managed to have a small, very basic conversation with her.  She was very nice.   </span>

 

<span>In France, they will happily speak English with you if you butcher a little French first.  They seem to find that very amusing.  But if you lead off by yakking at them in English, they turn up their nose at you.  I think they're all sick of the Brits coming over and acting like everyone should know English. Yes, I blame the Brits.   </span>

 

German is about the easiest language I've ever tried.  It's closely related to English.  I think you probably just need to refresh it a little and you'd pick it right back up. 

 

Where did you live in Germany? 

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