I have always planned to learn more languages – but have been stalled at my French plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 You get to a certain point with a language and it’s really difficult to advance.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve forgotten most of my ancient Greek, even the alphabet.\u00c2\u00a0 But with the approach of our trip to Europe, I felt I should get a handle on German.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like it’s important to at least make an effort to learn the native language of a country.<\/p>\n
So with this goal in mind, I put a video on hold at the VPL called “Lerne Deutsche.”\u00c2\u00a0 I knew I was taking a bit of a risk, borrowing a video sight unseen.\u00c2\u00a0 And as the German youth in Speedos frolicked on the beach during the opening orchestrated anthem, I knew I was in for more than a dip in a cultural experience.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that this video is from 1983.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the side-splitting highlights (or borrow it and see for yourself – it’s good medicine):<\/p>\n
1. Parts of the body – 30-second, zoomed in 360 of a person’s chin<\/p>\n
2. Colours – Young boy holding a series of square pieces of cardboard that he had coloured on with markers, but all of them look white and you can’t see the colours.<\/p>\n
3. The sheer randomness of the video – switching from months of the year to a phrase like “the butterfly in the garden” and “doing a summersault” (with a 19 year old in a Speedo, of course, doing a summersault on the beach).<\/p>\n
4. Ridiculously sensual shots of people in Speedos acting out\u00c2\u00a0emotive actions\u00c2\u00a0(crying, singing, laughing).<\/p>\n
5. Teenaged male putting on talcum powder.<\/p>\n
Somehow, I’m starting to feel more comfortable with the 19-letter words and the pronunciation.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully by March I will be able to competently read words out of a phrase book or off of signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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