sometimes you have to make a fool of yourself. i just wrote a short letter in german to a made up newspaper about a made up story. i'm not going crazy or wasting my time; it was for my class.
i know for sure at least fifty percent of the letter is comprised of mistakes, and what is at least written correctly either has no real german meaning, is not really a proper response to the article, or is wrong for some other reason i don't yet understand or remember.
all that aside, i wrote a letter in german. i figure if i write a hundred letters, one of them is bound to be good. hopefully not the forty-third one, though, because that would mean i just pulled through by chance.
i regularly hear people say here that my german is really good. i know most of them are offering a genuine compliment, but if they could only see what i really would like to say, maybe they would realize why i disagree.
tschüss
.jrs.
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