TallFatSue
Well-Known Member
Whew! Back at home after a loooong day of travel. I had fun with this newspaper quiz while hubby & I were in Berlin on a business/pleasure trip for an extra-long weekend (it was supposed to be all pleasure but I got roped into some business "as long as I was there" 
). Here's the online version of the quiz:
My German is riddled with mistakes, but the locals said I made better mistakes than some people who grew up there, so I guess that's okay? :doh: I could even carry on halfway decent conversations in German, making small talk. This seemed to help us get better service shopping and dining out than the average foreigners, even though many people spoke excellent English. I only hope my German pronunciation wasn't too exaggerated and I didn't sound too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's long-lost cousin -- but he has an Austrian accent, so maybe that's a good thing?
"Zwei Stücke Sachertorte, bitte." :eat2:
). Here's the online version of the quiz:Several fine points about English I hadn't thought about before!
My German is riddled with mistakes, but the locals said I made better mistakes than some people who grew up there, so I guess that's okay? :doh: I could even carry on halfway decent conversations in German, making small talk. This seemed to help us get better service shopping and dining out than the average foreigners, even though many people spoke excellent English. I only hope my German pronunciation wasn't too exaggerated and I didn't sound too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's long-lost cousin -- but he has an Austrian accent, so maybe that's a good thing?
"Zwei Stücke Sachertorte, bitte." :eat2:
