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78. I didn't study German so much as live it.

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #69)

Thu Dec 17, 2015, 03:34 AM

Dec 2015

Coming to you today live and in color from my home (for once!) in beautiful suburban Düsseldorf. My job takes me to a different country every day. My wife is German and we speak German at home. Any gaps in my Germanic cultural inventory, she makes up in spades. I started with Swedish, which is far easier than German, and have since learned Dutch as well. As we live about an hour's drive from the Dutch border, and I am in the Netherlands almost once a week, it's almost impossible NOT to learn it. Once you know German, Dutch is a snap.

Actually, I not only took Spanish in school, but lived there for a while as a teenager (though in a part of Spain where Spanish is not the main language), and majored in it in college. I also now speak Italian, French and Catalan (lived in Barcelona).

Plenty of German names mean something or other. I wonder of Dan Rather knows his name means he is from another suburb of Düsseldorf (Rath)?

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