Monday, July 3, 2006

German, the language you already speak

I saw this poster at the college where I started taking German, it said "German: The language you already speak!" It had a picture, for example, of a bed (das Bett), a bus (das Bus), a dog (das Hund).

Then I got to Germany and found that in fact, I do not already speak German.

A few days ago I was chatting (in German) with my friend and I wanted to tell her that something "seemed to me to be..." But instead I alarmed her by saying: "It is looking at me." She was like, "What is looking at you? Something in the air? Is "it" all around? Does it always watch you?"

Es seht mich an, folks. What can I do?

3 comments:

Could-be-a-model said...

Ich bin nicht mit der Deutsch!

Tom said...

uh oh. CBAM's using some sort of code to disguise her message. Perhaps she's an Al Kai-ee-da operative. Someone contact the NSA.

your small american said...

I think she thinks it's unseeable forces that live in the air and watch people. Or, that seemed to be her implication.