So Thursday morning at 830am, I started an intensive German course at the university. There are two different classifications of students that are taking part: the exchange students [like me] and those students who are coming to St. Gallen from another country to get their masters here. And we are all in this intensive German program together. We are divided into 3 beginner groups, a pre-intermediate, intermediate, and then advanced group [so 6 groups total]. Each beginner group had about 40 people in it. We meet from 830am-12pm and then 130pm-3pm for 7 days [Thursday, Friday this week; Monday-Friday next week]. So…here we go [Dad, this is for you!!!]:
Grüezi! Mein Name ist Amelia. Ich bin sechsundzwanzig Jahre alt. Ich bin verheiratet. Ich komme aus Austin, Texas. Zur Zeit wohne ich in St. Gallen. Meine Hobbies sind reisen, lesen, und kochen. Ich studiere das international recht aber ich interessiere mich auch für Politik. Ich spreche Englisch und ein bisschen Franzosisch, Russisch, und Deutsch. Tschüs.
[so the Germans capitalize a lot of random words, its not just me being crazy]
Oh, and I’m not going to translate that. You have to do that part. But know, its nothing ground-breaking and almost an insult to the sheer amount of information our teacher has given us over the last two days. But at this point it’s a lot of grammar rules and vocabulary, as opposed to true sentences, but that will come more and more. For now, I have been trying to use what I do know when we go out, and it is really gratifying to be able to do so!
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