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| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5146 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 73 of 116 26 January 2013 at 11:11am | IP Logged | ||
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@BAnna: Yeah, the class is really great! I can't believe how much I've learned this
past semester. When I first started, I had forgotten everything! Even the word 'vergessen' - to forget, so I couldn't even explain to my conversation partner that I had forgotten all the words! :P Now I can converse (although not in a great way) and I can write texts. I'm really looking forward to seeing how much I can learn within this semester! I've been working a lot with vocabulary lately. I finished the course "1000 words of Elementary German" on Memrise and am going to start on the course "5000 German Words". That will keep me busy for a while ;) We had a discussion about the book "Kleider machen Leute" by Gottfried Keller, but I still haven't finished the book. The next book, "Bahnwärter Thiel" should be finished by Monday and I still have a lot to read. I really need to step it up and finish those books! The language is so much more difficult than the other German books I have read, as the language is very old and sophisticated. I found a lot of old dative endings, such as "im Bette" and old words. Even though the books are difficult, I'm enjoying them. I think it's very interesting to read old books because of the way they are written and the way the characters speak. The language really is beautiful! Next week I'm going to Austria for a week to visit some friends that I meant during my exchange semester in Hong Kong. I probably won't be speaking much German though, as some of my friends don't speak it, but maybe I'll get some opportunity to practise anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5880 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 74 of 116 13 February 2013 at 8:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Are you back now? How was your trip to Austria?
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| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5146 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 75 of 116 20 February 2013 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry that it took so long for me to update. I'm back from Austria, and I had a lot to
do to catch up with my school work. The trip was good, it was great seeing my friends again! Week 7 - 10,88 hours spent on German I've been reading a lot lately as part of my school work. I've finished reading Kleider machen Leute, Bahnwärter Thiel and Homo Faber and am currently halfway through Effi Briest. All in all I've read about 500 pages for the last month. All but Homo Faber were written during the 19th century, so they were a bit tricky to read, but also great practise! So far I've enjoyed all the books, except for maybe Effi Briest, which is very slow at times. I've also been trying to catch up on my flashcards since the trip, but I still have a lot of words to go through, especially in my Cantonese deck. I also need to get started on Memrise again. Hopefully I'll be back on track by next week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5146 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 76 of 116 02 March 2013 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 8 - 11,5 hours German
Jetzt werde ich zum ersten Mal meinen Beitrag auf Deutsch schreieben. Letzte Woche habe ich das Buch Effi Briest von Theodor Fontane fertig gelesen. Es handelt von einem Mädchen, das, als sie sechszehn Jahre alt ist, den zwanzig Jahre älteren Mann Baron von Innstetten heiratet, weil es der Wunsch ihrer Eltern ist. Sie muss ihre Heimat verlassen und in sein gruseliges Haus einziehen. Dort fühlt sie sich sehr einsam, denn Innstetten kümmert sich sehr viel um seine Arbeit und ist oft weg. Später trifft sie den Major Crampas und sie haben eine Affäre zusammen, aber Effi liebt ihn eigentlich nicht. Einige Jahre später wird Innstetten befördert, und, zu Effis Glück, müssen sie nach Berlin wegziehen, und sie verbringen sieben glückliche Jahre dort. Eines Tages erfährt jedoch Innstetten über Effis und Crampas' Affäre, als er Briefe zwischen ihnen findet. Die Frage ist dann: was soll er jetzt tun? Soll er ihren glücklichen Zustand zerstören, um sein Name zu verteidigen, oder soll er tun, als ob er nichts davon erfahren hat? Ich fand das Buch ein bisschen langweilig, weil in Teilen des Buchs nicht so viel passiert, aber am Ende wurde es besser. Die Sprache war ganz schwierig, weil das Buch im 19. Jahrhundert geschrieben ist, aber es war trotzdem eine gute Übung und alles in allem war es ein interessantes Lesenserlebnis. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4639 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 77 of 116 02 March 2013 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Your German is great! My compliments. I read Effi Briest a few years ago and quite liked it, but I can imagine the language must be rather difficult for a non-native. Congratualtions on finishing it! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4417 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 78 of 116 03 March 2013 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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You piqued my curiosity about Effie Briest, so I looked it up at Gutenberg.de and struggled through the first chapter. I would definitely say reading the whole book is quite an accomplishment. Bravo!
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| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5146 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 79 of 116 11 April 2013 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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One month since my last post, that's really bad! Sorry guys! I can only say that I've
been very busy with homework, which I guess could be a good thing, since I've at least been studying a lot of German. Thanks Josquin and BAnna for your nice comments! It was quite a challenge to read the book, so I'm really glad about having finished it! Seit Effi Briest habe ich noch einige Bücher für die Schule gelesen: Das Urteil und Die Verwandlung von Franz Kafka (beide sind Novellen) und Jugend ohne Gott von Ödön von Horvath. Die Verwandlung fand ich sehr gut! Die Handlung ist etwas seltsam, aber trotzdem denkwürdig und interessant (ich fand es auch teilweise humoristisch, aber manche würden vielleicht nicht mithalten :P). Es handelt von einem jungen Mann, der plötzlich zu einem Käfer verwandelt wird. Zuerst glaubt er, dass es nur einen Traum sei, aber wenn sowohl sein Chef als seine Familie vor im Angst haben, versteht er, dass er wirklich verwandelt ist. Ich war ein bisschen erstaunt darüber, wie einfach das Buch zu lesen war. Ich dachte, es wäre schwieriger zu lesen, weil ich gehört habe, dass Bücher von Kafka schwierig zu lesen sind, aber vielleicht meint man nur, dass der Inhalt und die Botschaft schwierig zu verstehen sind. Jugend ohne Gott fand ich auch sehr gut und ganz einfach zu lesen. Bücher, die neue sind (mindestens aus dem 20. Jahrhundert), sind jetzt für mich nicht schwierig zu verstehen. Dieses Buch hat eine sehr spannende Handlung, und noch mit einer guten Botschaft. Ich kann es stark empfehlen! Ich glaube, das ist genug für diesen Beitrag. Ich habe mehr Nachrichten, und die werde ich auch bald mitteilen, aber jetzt muss ich schlafen! Gute Nacht! Ich werde versuchen, öfter hier zu schreiben und mehr aktiv im Forum zu sein! Edited by WingSuet on 11 April 2013 at 12:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5146 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 80 of 116 22 April 2013 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 16 4,93 hours German
Not much studying done this week. Mostly I've been slacking off with my reading and I've fallen a little behind in my book course. I'll try harder this coming week! These are the things I HAVE done this week: I had a test in German language history. It happens to be one of my absolute favourite subjects, and since I've studied Swedish language history before, which is very similar to the German, it wasn't too difficult for me. That is however the main reason why I haven't been able to read much in my book. I'm currently reading Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink. I'm only about half way through, but so far it's very good and not that difficult! A few weeks ago I started reading Kleiner Mann - Was nun? by Hans Fallada, but didn't have time to finish it in time so I had to put it aside. In this one I'm also only halfways, but the book is about 400 pages so that explains why. We also needed to read Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, but it was really difficult! It's the oldest one we've needed to read (1774) so the language is very different and hard. I need to finish all these books by the 16th May, when I have my oral test about all the books we've read during the semester. I also got the test result back from our test in history of German literature. It was very difficult, there were many long complicated answers and everything was in German of course! We also needed to learn to recognize all of the poems in the book and this is where I failed on the test, but I managed the questions well and got the highest grade (not as impressive when you consider that there are only three grades in Swedish universities - approved, well approved and not approved.) I'm still very happy with the result, as I had struggled and worked so hard preparing for it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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