Advanced Lessons in German

Wow.. I really studied German in advance. A friend of mine (Pate.. Thanks to her.. Clap! Clap!) taught MJ and me last Tuesday about some basic rules in reading and writing Deutsch. (Well actually, we had no lesson yet for two days so we are just eager to know different German words.)

1. In writing German, all nouns are capitalized. Yup! Weird enough. Even in the middle of the sentence, all nouns even only common nouns are capitalized.
2. In speaking. “V” is pronounced as “F” and “W” is pronounced as “V”.. (But “F” is not pronounced as “W”.. Haha.. It’s not even a cycle.. ^_^) So a good example is Volkswagen pronounced as “Folksvagen.”
3. There are two umlauts that I learned that day. One is “ü” pronounced as “UE” and the other is “ö” pronounced as “OE.” (BTW, you can use ALT+148 for "ö" and ALT+129 for "ü")
4. Also in speaking, “Z” is pronounced as “TS” and “SCH” is pronounced as “SH.”
5. The letter “R” is always pronounced as a schwa if preceded by “E” and “I” and pronounced as “Bad Romance” if preceded by “A”, “O” and “U.” You’ll get it if you know the song. Haha…

I really had a good time with that conversation… I felt that I have a severe malfunction in speaking because I had to repeat saying “OE” and “UE” many times before I get it correctly.. Haha… I really enjoyed learning a new language especially when we studied about numbers.. (The next thing I did is count all of the things around me in German, even all of the people in EEE VLC… ~ Very Large Classroom, odd name for a room really...) Haha.. That really made my day especially that our teacher did not show up..^_^ He’s in Germany at that time by the way… Maybe I’ll talk to him in German when he comes back.. Haha..