Snail Mail for Frog II

I picked up a German-English-German dictionary in England so I can communicate with the marina mechanic. He finds it hilarious I can suddenly speak entire sentences in German. He was qutie surprised at the Canadian beer I gave him for Christmas.
He installt meine Postekasten today finally (here we go, another language with eerie similarities to English).


Here's my first piece of mail =>

New German Worten - ich möchte (I would like) bohren (to drill) ein Loch (a hole) - I finally replaced my missing drawer pull. Not sure why German's so much easier to speak than French. Compare conversation at bank, in which I am still learning words like guichette automatique (bank machine) and retrait (withdrawal). Most embarassing part was when I spelled out my name and I had to explain my grandfather was canadien-français.

Oh - and discovered Yannick Noah - je veux ameliorer mon français avec "Charango". Very reminiscent of "The Truth about Charlie" soundtrack which I must also dig up sometime.

(Happy Gurupurab to my friend Karanjeet - today is the festival of the birthday of the 10th Sikh prophet. I think every major religion had something on over this holiday. New Year's Eve was Eid for Muslims, which I spent with my Turkish friends.)

more soon...Christmas, Brighton Beach, Karlsruhe train station pics to come.