Personal Narrative: Moving To Germany

Moving to Germany I am a military child. Since my dad is in the Marine Corps, my family moves around a lot. In fact, I have moved about six times since I was born. One of the most recent places that I have lived in is Stuttgart, Germany. I lived there for two years, and then transferred to Maryland the summer of 2015. That was a great experience for me and my family, so now I’m going to share my experience with you. Since I lived in Europe, my family thought that it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so of course we traveled 27/7. We took day trips, weekend trips, and even two week trips. This really paid off by letting me have the chance to see 18 different countries in the short time period I was there. The weekend trips we took

This really helped me pick up the language quickly. In this class, we had to take vocabulary quizzes on the words by spelling them and writing what they mean. This class also required me to take dialogue tests by speaking the language to my teacher, Mr. Topacio. The last kind of teats are the language tests; this included things like grammar, rules, and such. There are many tricky rules for German. For example the different words have different articles such as der, die, and das. This can make learning much more difficult. I could also learn German from my grandma because she is originally from Germany. Because she has family there, in order for them to be able to talk, my grandma has to keep up her German, so she would try to practice with me too. This is very fun because I can hear her stories from growing up where I lived. This way was kind of difficult though because it was hard to teach and learn over the phone across an ocean. She sometimes visited thought so I could talk to her during the visits. Another way to practice is talking to German people, and asking questions when we went out to the store. This helped me because I would try to speak German first, but then if I didn't know a word, or if they couldn't understand me, then I could just ask them if they spoke English. Finally, I could read street signs, advertisements, and I could watch or listen to German T.V. This was useful because this taught me to process the language quicker. Overall, there were many ways for me to learn German, and they all paid