This year my greatest dream of graduating from English philology finally came true, as I passed my MA defence exam. At the same time, I've begun the German philology in my home city. I first came across German in grammar school, and then I attended foreign language course while studying English philology.This course lasted only three terms. We used the same textbook I have had in grammar school and made very little progress compared to what I had learnt in grammar school. The teacher was not very demanding, she didn't want to burden us with too much material as we had almost all other classes in English. (It was English philology after all!)After three terms there was an exam, I passed and got an A, but it wasn't very advanced German all the same. Suffice it to say that after this course I was aware of two German grammar tenses, namely Prasens and Perfekt. But after the exam I had abandoned German totally, and for five years I haven't read anything in German. The only contact I had with German was moving my old textbooks from one shelf to another ;)
Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to study German philology after all. With so little prior knowledge of German, I struggle with this language, and the teachers have a nerve-wracking tendency to speak more and more in German ;)I worry all the time that the first immediate result of this struggle will be forgetting my beloved English as I have almost no time to read in English as I used to do, I have to work so hard on my German. To prevent this, and to follow the example of many language bloggers, I've decided to document my struggle with German on this blog. I hope I will stick to my decision and the blog will have more than just one entry ;)
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