I had my first German class today. I mean, first in my life! One might wonder how on earth could a theology student have survived without German. Well, I am a living proof that it is possible. In addition to German, I have not studied French or Latin either. Instead, I studied six years the world's most useful language: Swedish (in Finnish Pakkoruotsi). Thank you Finnish schooling system - they say you are the best!
There are nine students in my evening class; one from Brazil, one from Poland, one from Russia, one from Slovakia, and few from the US. It appears that I have more prior knowledge about German than some/most of the other students. All the gratitude goes, not to the Finnish schooling system, but to the 'Korkkari' (engl. Commando) that I read in my youth, and learned the essential vocabulary. Also, because of my theology studies, I could pronounce correctly the word 'Geschichte'.
I am pretty sure that German will not be the last new language that I will be learning. However, in addition to learning German from the scratch, practicing one's Greek and Hebrew, and studying in a foreign language (English) will get hard. But hey, that is why we are here for!
Ps. What a terrible tragedy that the first link in this quasimodo-academic blog points to Wikipedia!!!
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