Like ein Dumkopf I signed up for Deutsch II at the last minute. First class was last week. I don’t know why I’m doing this. The game of it, maybe? Self abuse? Some stupid dream of traveling to Deutschophone countries and sweet-talking everyone I meet? I don’t get it. I took the first course last …
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Endlich
Took my Deutsch I final this morning. I don’t believe I did well. Probably 50%. It was oral with another student over Zoom. We each were given separate facts about a fictitious person that we had to ask questions about, and we had to answer in full sentences im Deutsch. My vocabulary is bad, because …
Shelved
Been a bit too bowled over lately to have any sort of downtime for private thoughts and introspection. Too much that I have to / want to do. Most of my blathering goes onto Mastodon for the dopamine points, but on rare occasion (usually the weekends) I scratch out something in my paper journal. This …
Der Dummkopf – The Fool
This first week of German class has not gone easily. I’ve never done distance learning, so I’m climbing uphill to figure out these learning management systems. The first assignment found me misreading the actual task, and I kept getting the answers wrong; I got distracted with learning the laptop’s Alt-Gr keys (so I can do …
Anfange!
Yay! My German class is now beginning! Ah fick! Meine Duetsch klasse beginnt. Ich jetzt muss lerne.