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Taking the Captain as my role model once again:

I'm not fond of whiskey but there are plenty of other possibilities at hand....
„Since the presentation on Friday is in English, I will sit down and improve my poor linguistic skills.“ so she said and opened the new tab on the bookmark 'Archive of our own'. Because English used in fanfictions has almost the same vocabulary as in any scientific topic. Especially when it comes to sigmatropic rearrangements. As if.
(But: If I get a cent each time I say 'homo' during my presentation, I'd be a rich girl by the end of the week. Too bad it's mostly just the highest occupied molecule orbital.)
Also, why do I keep saying Wodehouse instead of Woodward? P.G. Wodehouse would have never written such ridiculous rules...
The problem is: As much as I love tutoring my students or talking without drawing a breath about my current obsession or just having a nice chat with my friends about any topic you name (even the ones I have nothing to say about)... I just lose all of my charm when you have me standing in front of a big audience, when noone cares about what you are saying. Well, except for the examiner of cause. Who happened to be the one who once gave me the worst mark of my life in an oral exam. Lucky me.
Let's hope my English will be so bad, he wont even understand me and will have to pretend the presentation was alright and he has no further questions.
Who am I kidding?..
Back toreading fanfiction learning.


I'm not fond of whiskey but there are plenty of other possibilities at hand....
„Since the presentation on Friday is in English, I will sit down and improve my poor linguistic skills.“ so she said and opened the new tab on the bookmark 'Archive of our own'. Because English used in fanfictions has almost the same vocabulary as in any scientific topic. Especially when it comes to sigmatropic rearrangements. As if.
(But: If I get a cent each time I say 'homo' during my presentation, I'd be a rich girl by the end of the week. Too bad it's mostly just the highest occupied molecule orbital.)
Also, why do I keep saying Wodehouse instead of Woodward? P.G. Wodehouse would have never written such ridiculous rules...
The problem is: As much as I love tutoring my students or talking without drawing a breath about my current obsession or just having a nice chat with my friends about any topic you name (even the ones I have nothing to say about)... I just lose all of my charm when you have me standing in front of a big audience, when noone cares about what you are saying. Well, except for the examiner of cause. Who happened to be the one who once gave me the worst mark of my life in an oral exam. Lucky me.
Let's hope my English will be so bad, he wont even understand me and will have to pretend the presentation was alright and he has no further questions.
Who am I kidding?..
Back to

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Date: 2012-06-09 12:19 am (UTC)Ha, bet he would have come up with something infinitely more ridiculous. I want Jeeves to come and organize my life.
Viel glück bei deiner präsentation. Ich denke, dein Englisch ist sehr gut ... viel besser als mein Deutsch. :)
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Date: 2012-06-11 05:37 pm (UTC)But, yeah, having Jeeves as your personal PA would make life so much nicer. Even with the reduced wardrobe and a few occasional engagements to keep his mastermind busy.
Too bad, I still won’t be up to his required standards...
Danke schön! Die Präsentation lief wieder Erwarten gut.
Das ist lieb von dir :) Aber ich mache immer noch so viele dumme Fehler. Es ist leider schon sehr lange her, seit ich das letzte Mal Englischunterricht hatte (feel free to point out any recurrent mistakes in my English.)
Seit wann lernst du denn Deutsch?
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Date: 2012-06-12 12:18 pm (UTC)I never thought of that! Jeeves would probably take away my Danier yellow motorcycle jacket too. In fact, Jeeves wouldn't let me have anything yellow at all.
Ich studierte Deutsch seit einem Jahr in der Uni, aber das war vor drei Jahren. Es ist meine Lieblingssprache, aber ich bin nicht sehr gut darin. Ich muss mehr üben.
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Date: 2012-06-13 10:02 pm (UTC)Du kannst gerne mit mir üben, wenn du magst :) Bisher fand ich dein Deutsch aber sehr gut, ich hätte nie gedacht, dass es bei dir nur ein Jahr ist. Es klingt absolut korrekt, nur ein bisschen vorsichtig, wie bei einem Tänzer, der die Schritte schon kennt, sich aber noch nicht ganz traut loszulegen ;)
Spitzen Leistung!
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Date: 2012-06-15 07:43 pm (UTC)Ich mag!
Es war nur ein Jahr, aber ich lernte viele Stunden in (während?) dieser Zeit. Ich wollte, nachdem Uni nach Berlin zu bewegen. Ich hoffe immer noch, für eine Weile in Deutschland zu leben. Im nächsten Sommer möchte ich einen Kurs am Goethe-Institut nehmen.
(Aggh, sorry, I think I've messed up the word order, and I don't know where to put the commas.)
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Date: 2012-06-18 11:16 pm (UTC)in/während are both allowed. I, personally, would prefer 'während' for this construction.
'Es war nur ein Jahr, aber ich lernte sehr viel während dieser Zeit.'
'in' would stress your achievement a little bit stronger (like in a completed action), not the time spent learning. But the difference is really not that big and it would sound perfectly right if you use the other one :)
Ich wollte, nachdem Uni nach Berlin zu bewegen.
Better would be:
Nach der Uni wollte ich nach Berlin fahren.
('move' translates in this case not as 'bewegen' but as 'ziehen'. If you want to indicate, you are going to stay for quite a long time, it's 'ziehen' as in 'umziehen', 'der Umzug'. If you only intend to visit the city for a short stay, it's 'fahren nach [...]')
Ich hoffe immer noch, für eine Weile in Deutschland zu leben.
a comma is not necessary but it can stay if you like :) due to the New Spelling Reform both versions are correct. No objections to that one!
4) Im nächsten Sommer möchte ich einen Kurs am Goethe-Institut nehmen.
I'd rather say 'machen' instead of 'nehmen' but it sill sounds fine.
Das sind gute Nachrichten! :)
Warst du schon mal in Berlin? Oder in einer anderen deutschen Stadt? Berlin ist wunderschön, aber recht laut - eine typische Hauptstadt halt. Dafür hat es die Museeninsel, was vieles entschädigt.