So, back to improving my German vocabulary. While I have managed to vastly improve my passive vocabulary in the last year, I really need to start making those words an active part of my speech. Today’s Word of the Day is: glaubwürdig: (adjective) credible or believable. Example sentence from the Goethe Institut: “Zum einen erwarten …
Tag: Word of the Day
Monday, Monday
It is Monday after a three-day weekend, and boy, was it hard to get out of bed this morning. Especially since I spent all of yesterday in my pajamas and never left the apartment (it was unbelievably rainy and miserable), instead opting to sleep late, shop for a wardrobe (meaning a closet, not a new …
Today
…my head hurts. …it is cloudy and rainy. …I craved coffee at the morning break, but there was none to be found. …we talked about using the passive voice and about something called Zutstandspassiv, which as I far as I can tell is something I already use but didn’t know the name of. Even if …
Word of the Day: Anstarren
To improve my sorely limited vocabulary, each morning I will choose one new word to integrate somewhere into my spoken and written German — either in class, in my homework, as a blog post, speaking with mein Schatz — it doesn’t matter, as long as I use it. By using the word once or twice, …