Christian,
It hasn't helped me. I took 5 years of college German and speak less than
the average German 2 year old. Honestly, it's humiliating, because I'm
still in the habit of telling people that I know some German...only to
stumble on the most basic words and sentence structure. I think it would
come back pretty quick, but I don't have the time (or energy) to study it
on my own, and very little opportunity to use it in a practical setting
(despite Hans' brave attempt to try to understand my gibberish).
I still have a large bookshelf full of German classics; someday, someday.
Aaron
> Servus Hans,
>
> I warned Sellam about this but he said he's willing to go ahead with it!
> ;-) The cat's out of the bag now! I know well what it's like to try to
> learn German and after about eight years of periodic, unofficial, random
> self-teaching I can just about speak short simple sentences. If German was
> still taught in the schools around here I would have attempted to get
> tutoring would be much better I think. If he does in fact come to
> understand spoken High German he'll get confused hearing the Bavarian
> tongue though. I know! ;-) Heh heh heh . . .
>
> Bis später, Chris
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> Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
> Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
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Received on Tue Mar 07 2000 - 21:38:11 GMT