#study-with-mi

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To my surprise, the Advendskalender I bought this year has quotes on the inside, so apart from a chocolate I’ll have a German advent challenge.

First I’ll try to translate without dictionaries or online translators (I still have moments where I do know all the words and the sentence still doesn’t make any sense) and then I’ll double check it.

Today’s quote:

„Der beste Weg, sich selbst eine Freude zu machen, ist zu versuchen, einem anderen eine Freude zu bereiten“ – Mark Twain

Translation:

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up” – Mark Twain

I mixed up “Freude” and “Freunde” and I didn’t remember what “bereiten” meant, so the whole thing didn’t make much sense.

And I learned the expression „eine Freude machen“ :)

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I have mixed feelings when my brain switches to Denglisch. I mean, it's nice that the language is finally coming naturally at random moments, but "Tuestag", seriously???

(Well, I guess my brain is doing what it can to switch contexts between 3 languages on a daily basis without going completely kaputt)

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These two are my morning companions since last week. I’m 75% through my A2 course, but I don’t feel I have a strong A2 German yet, so I decided to buy this textbook and review A level grammar. Right now I’m reviewing the few gender rules that exists (will I ever get them right?) and practicing adjective declension, because that’s what I’m learning in class.