a true hoot
I will go ahead and confess that I may be dropping that introductory German course. Which means I would be dropping my earlier passion to learn the language. It boils down to time, mainly. The textbook (plus workbook plus CDs) is $140 new or $20 used on eBay with neither workbook nor CDs. All the same, a semester of time is worth more to me than $140. I am probably going to need a lot of time this semester, maybe $900 worth of it.
So, with my own dashed hopes out in the open, allow me to reflect on a freshman’s assessment of synonyms when my current German instructor revealed multiple ways of introducing oneself:
“Why is there two ways of saying the same thing?”
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:46 am
But why would you give up the chance to work with such towering intellects?
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Because most of those towering intellects are dead. If I am going to be teaching, then the second language would only prove a fancy. I may never have an application for it, so the effort right now, in the midst of a heyday of academic pressure, would come reluctantly.
Alas.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Nun hast Du es doch schon geschafft! Wie können wir denn jetzt zusammen reden? Vielen Dank Ryan!
August 26th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
English is a start. Other methods are available, too, namely American Sign Language and Twitter.