Back from Berlin on Wednesday 10th March after a week that I will never forget. Michael and I went together. It was Michael's 40th birthday in February, so we went away together as a celebration of that
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It's truly amazing. I am enchanted by the whole feeling of Berlin. Do you speak good German ? I did it at school, 27 years ago, for 6 months, and I was able to manage the language really well. I'd like to improve my German now.
ok-ish... I understand a lot of it, and speak enough to get by. I still remember some from school which is useful. I find it's an easy language to understand as a listener, much harder to grasp the grammar as a apeaker though!
They don't even teach it at the girls' schools - it's Spanish and French only these days, and even then very few pupils choose to take them after the age of 14. M is learning French at an after school club because there wasn't enough interest even to run a GCSE class.
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They don't even teach it at the girls' schools - it's Spanish and French only these days, and even then very few pupils choose to take them after the age of 14. M is learning French at an after school club because there wasn't enough interest even to run a GCSE class.
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