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Ah! Der Prater! Ich vergaß diesen Namen. Ich habe eine Abbildung von der ...er... top. Ich ritt auch eine Wasserfahrt. (we'd call it a log flume ride over here...)
I actually started taking German for fun... I didn't need a language for my degree and graduation, but I had a roommate who took upper-level German classes (to the point she spoke German in her sleep after she worked on a hard assignment) and another good friend who had spent a semester in Germany and spoke some. Plus, I've always been interested in German as that is what my ancestry is (my great-great-great grandfather came over from Germany in the mid-1800s). My real last name is actually Ulrich.
I took two classes before doing my five weeks in Austria. While there I took an intermediate conversational German class. Also, the house I lived in was a bed & breakfast (there's a name for it that I can't think of) and I was there with 2 other girls from my group. Neither of them spoke German and Frau Einsel spoke very little English, so I was the go between.
In classes, I learned German German, more specifically, Berlin German as that was where my teacher was originally from. But I did find that I could understand the Austrian German speakers better than the German German speakers while I was over there. Maybe it's a family throwback thing, since my family was from the Alsace-Lorraine area originally and closer to say Switzerland and Austria...
I would love to go back sometime and would even mind living over there if given the chance. I really loved the atmosphere.
My rose icon is actually from a picture I took in Bregrenz in die Alte Stadt that I walked through every day from my trek down the mountain road from the house I was living in to the lower part of the city on der Boden See.
:-)
I actually started taking German for fun... I didn't need a language for my degree and graduation, but I had a roommate who took upper-level German classes (to the point she spoke German in her sleep after she worked on a hard assignment) and another good friend who had spent a semester in Germany and spoke some. Plus, I've always been interested in German as that is what my ancestry is (my great-great-great grandfather came over from Germany in the mid-1800s). My real last name is actually Ulrich.
I took two classes before doing my five weeks in Austria. While there I took an intermediate conversational German class. Also, the house I lived in was a bed & breakfast (there's a name for it that I can't think of) and I was there with 2 other girls from my group. Neither of them spoke German and Frau Einsel spoke very little English, so I was the go between.
In classes, I learned German German, more specifically, Berlin German as that was where my teacher was originally from. But I did find that I could understand the Austrian German speakers better than the German German speakers while I was over there. Maybe it's a family throwback thing, since my family was from the Alsace-Lorraine area originally and closer to say Switzerland and Austria...
I would love to go back sometime and would even mind living over there if given the chance. I really loved the atmosphere.
My rose icon is actually from a picture I took in Bregrenz in die Alte Stadt that I walked through every day from my trek down the mountain road from the house I was living in to the lower part of the city on der Boden See.
:-)