It's interesting... Our lives overlap in someway.
Oh yeah...I can totally relate to your rustiness in German! It actually happened to me during the time I had just written my A2 exam and decided to take a whole 3 month hiatus! Then came the time for me to actually get back to studying for B1 and boom, dative and genetive cases became completely alien to me! Lol, I think the only sentence that really stuck with me afterwards was the gold ol classic : Das Auto Des Mannes ist Kaputt🤣
Learning German (or any language for that matter), requires constant assimilation and practice — WITHOUT BREAKS — UNTIL YOU SPEAK IT WITHOUT THINKING! But fear not, your German might be rusty now, but once you get back on the old horse, alles wird gut! Glaub mir😌
I agree with you, Hive really is a special place for special people. I believe a time will come when it would go mainstream and once it does, the world will never be the same again.
Hmm, I don't know much about Mahler either, apart from his famous Symphony No.5 of course, but this was a treat to listen to while reading your story!
I see... You've come a long way indeed and it's good to see that you're still discovering more about life and yourself. Life's a constant series of growth and evolvement afterall.
Hmm... maybe the pandemic wasn't that bad afterall. Apparently, it was an eye opener for some people actually (myself included).
Cheers for now DeeAnn!
Kaputt gave me so much trouble when I had to understand that gestorben means "[have] died" ... I was not expecting that! German, like ancient Greek, has so many specific words for things.
Dative and genitive cases are totally gone, because it has been 20 years since I seriously paid attention to the study of the language... not much chance to use it, other things came along that demanded my attention ... until Covid-19. But, once upon a time, I could actually think in German, and occasionally - when I am listening to German lieder, for example -- it comes back in big flashes. This is why doing the translation work is so interesting to me on such songs ... my limited vocabulary can reconnect to what I used to know and connect with things I never learned in university.
Indeed! Took me a while to realize Handarbeiten isn't what it's literally translated to be👀...
Woa! 20 years!!! That a lot!
Ah... I see. Back then, you must've gotten a pretty good grasp of the language if you we're already thinking in it by then.
Oh well, good luck again on your journey!
Thank you ... by the way, I have not forgotten your tip on getting further off into the NFT market ... waiting for gas fees to get to a reasonable point (which I realize may take a WHILE)...
Oh awesome! You remembered!
And i see... Sounds like a reasonable plan then. Although, just in case things go south, you could always try the polygon network - no gas fees⛽
You know, I completely forgot I can use Polygon now ... thank you very much ... danke SEHR...
Lol, yeah. Most people tend to lol. Auch keine sorge. Freut mich sehr😌