News in spring

A long time has passed, since I posted into my blog. But today I have time, and I just seize the chance to inform you about my experiences during the last weeks:

First of all I had the english vocabulary test in english, which I luckily passed successfully, but here I have to say something: I was sitting 2 days learning english vocabularies again, which I did years ago the last time -- and it was hard. It was really hard, and I recognized, how many vocabularies in the english language exist, which I do not know (what an awareness;-)) ! Although I beleive -- or better: I beleived -- that I know plenty of vocabularies. I also recognized, that I use a lot of vocabularies at speaking, whose exact translation into german I do not know, which was quite funny to learn then. And an interesting experience as well... Vocabularies are, sadly, the basic of a language, and it is especially then sad, if I have to learn them, and then recogizing that there are still a lot more to learn -- and it is not ending. But on the other hand: There also exist a lot of german words, which I still do not know... watching this fact, english vocabulary learning gets more friendly again! :-)

Then I had to visit Amsterdam again (a visit for and with my company) and it was a funny trip again. Although I went out the night before our "working-day", I was speaking -- or maybe: because of this fact?! -- quite good english; the netherland people are very hard with the english language: Nearly all of the netherlands speak english fluently. TV in Netherland is on english, and only some channels have subtitles in dutch (but still: the spoken language is then english). Also in school many subjects are in english. This is the reason, why nearly everyone speaks good english -- and also many people understand german as well. Some people also can speak german, but in any case: most of the netherlands understand german. So they always know, what a german person wants to say, and then they hear the english translation. But Amsterdam visits are always a good training!

After this trip I had my last tests for my first semester (it was a very stressy time for me) , and I passed all of them and I am really happy now. On the day I noticed this fact I was running around with a BIG smile during the whole day! And I was a little bit proud, that I accomplished this barrier at the end of the first semester!

For today I finish my update from the last weeks, it got long again. But soon there are coming more news...