Hallo Leute, heute ist Wockenende. Alas!!! I hope I am progressing well. Just for those curious following me very sincerely, I just meant “Hey guys, it’s finally weekend today”. Although, I am showing off my German skills, but I really need to speed up. I lost a game today because of my lack of knowledge in German vocabulary. Yes, we played a game by the end of the class which required quite basic German knowledge and also it’s quite helpful for beginners. May be you guys know about this game, it’s like you have to write name, place, animal and thing starting with an alphabet which is randomly selected and is changing in each round. To make it more interesting and helpful, the instructor added two more columns; one for a river and another for profession. It made the game a bit difficult, keeping in mind we aren’t allowed to write down any in English. Like even the river Danube have a German name which is Donau. So we had to be really careful, thus I lost the game. But this kind of fun games are actually very informative. You learn new things without even having the intention of learning. Apart from the learning part, as we talked about Donau, I must say it is one of my favorite places in Vienna especially in summer. Along the river are lots of things one can do. There are restaurants, clubs, bars, tracks, etc. So if you are in Vienna, you gotta be visiting the famous river. I got some nice pictures clicked!!!

Hi guy… its me again, the Kufstein guy… Or you can call me Shan. By the way today whole day I was wondering how would my name be spelled in German and guess what?? I asked the course instructor ( Kurs Lehrer if I am not wrong) and found out it’s the same. Anyways, today Vienna treated me very nicely as always. Actually I really like this time of the year. Winter is approaching, jingle bells around, Christmas market ( Weinachtmarkt) all gives extra charm to this beautiful city in the heart of Europe. As its my first year in Vienna, I was shocked to see that Christmas markets are already working. That’s quite amazing I must say. Like, each evening from now onwards till Christmas, you have something great to do. If you are free early from work and want to socialize out with friends, I would definitely suggest the Christmas markets. Its almost in every part of the center. Although not all of them have started yet, but one can see the set-up of the markets already. So, I was quite curious whole day to visit one of the market near Opera (Oper). The visit was quite refreshing after the hectic day followed by the German course. Actually, the Deutschakademie is located in center which makes it really convenient to be anywhere in Vienna. So to sum up my day, I really enjoyed today in Vienna because of the activities going on in the city because of new year and Christmas approaching.

I have a picture for you guys. The market near Stephansdom. Unfortunately, I do not have a DSLR 😉

So today is my first day in A1.2 course!!!

Hello all. This is Shan. I am originally from Pakistan. I am living in Austria since 2012. I came to Austria to pursue master degree. I studied in University of Applied Sciences Kufstein-Tyrol. While all my studies and degree was in English, I was always obsessed to learn German language, as it is definitely required if one decides to stay in Austria for good. But being an English speaking student, it was quite a difficult journey to build a surrounding where I can learn and practice basic German language skills. Most of my day was spent in university where I was bounded to use English. As for the social life, almost all my friends were from non-German speaking country and thus preferred English. Though I had few native German speaking friends with whom I was able to grasp some basic language skills of their mother tongue. Outside my social surrounding and academic life, I was obliged to use German language, as the university I was studying is located in a tiny beautiful town of Austria where locals prefer to preserve the tradition and culture, thus it was kind of awkward to use English as a medium of communication. In this way, I learned the basics of the Austrian native language but then I felt I am stuck at one level where I can understand what I want but cannot express my feelings out of the box. I was already able to use the my kind of broken German language in the daily life but definitely that was not sufficient for regular life or a life after passing out from the university. At that level, I decided to opt for a German course to learn the language smoothly.

P.S; In the pictures you can see beautiful Kufstein, from where I started my journey!!!