My "German for Reading Knowledge" course began yesterday and I've already spent many hours cramming German verbs and grammatical structures into my brain. It'll be a challenging course of studies, I reckon, but I am pretty confident that my ability to read German will increase exponentially over these next few weeks.
I haven't any idea as to how often I'll be able to update this blog. I'm going to go to California this weekend to play at a feis, so I need to be very diligent with my German so that I can lose two days of studying in order to travel/play. I hadn't planned on attending this feis but the organizer is down a musician and can't find anyone else to play. So, I'm going to sacrifice myself by going to LA for a weekend. It's a rough life, I know.
7 comments:
Too bad you didn't take Dr. Ray's Reading German class at Fordham -- it was one of the best classes I ever took, any where!
Am I losing my mind? Did I not read a long post from you written in Peru? Surely I didn't dream it.
Please tell me I didn't leave a sarcastic comment on the blog of some other Jesuit scholastic. And if I did, then quick, tell me who is in Peru!
p.s. I'm in L.A. Where are you going to be????
Hi Karen!
You posted to a post I wrote last year - June of '06.
I'm playing (I think) in Irvine. There's an Irish festival/dancing competition that week.
To the above poster: I don't know that Dr. Ray teaches it any more -- there was a different professor running the course last year. I heard they hired someone else to teach it for this fall?
Can you recommend a good book for learning German grammar?
I really can only suggest April Wilson's "Learning German Quickly" as it is the only text I have used.
thanks for the book rec, I'll see if I can find it. I've been trying to learn German, but it's difficult when mired in things that must be done.
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