Was kann ich de speaken?

So, after 4 weeks and 8 lessons, what have I learnt?

Well, for 1.. You were right. Everyone was right. German is hard!

Here are some things I am now trying to learn, recall and use more often.

Past tense with gegangen and gearbeit n all those ge words (not so hard, but many variations on verbs). The hardest part is working out haben or sein for past tense.. I habe gesagt I have said

Ich bin aufgewacht I woke up

Prataritum (past) Ich hatte, du hattest, er hattetet and all those tricky variations like ging instead of gegangen and war instead of gewesen.

Konjunction II (future?) form 1: würde + infinitive … Ich würde das Filmsehen (?) Ii would like to see the film.

Form 2: es könnte sein It could be. Wir sollten schwimmen We should swim.

But you have to know prat. to transfer words into kon. form2.

Nominative, accusative, dative and genetive forms for der, die and das as well as plural forms for each gender. Uses of an, auf, in, zu etc. based on question to workout a response in the correct form.

And on top of all this grammatic, I have been expanding my vocab.

The good news is that I’m learning German better than the Germans like all those foreigners that correct the locals.. That could be me some day!

2010 will be the year of deutsche. I think my new years resolution will be to only speak German to German people for as long as I can!

Wish me luck! Oder viel Glück!