I'll prepare my things to go back home tomorrow, I'll take as much things as possible. I'll be only for one day in Basel in January, and then I'll go back to continue my studies in my place. God, I'm so happy to go back! It was a very good experience in many ways, but it was not as fun as I expected, and one thing that I deeply regret is that I didn't improve my spoken german at all! I tried to go out with some people here, but they are speaking their dialect, and I don't understand them really well. When they speak to me they speak german, but when they speak together they use their dialect, and I felt a bit put appart... It's not really funny to be with some people and not to understand why they are laughing or what topic they are discussing. So I spoke italian, french, and a lot of english during these month, it's not bad after all, at least I could make a refresh of my other languages!
What I know now, also, is that I really want to stay in the place where I live. I think I couldn't move for the long term in another place, I really have my roots there. I love to travel, but I also love to come back home, I have strong roots there. Not only because of my friends and family, but also because of the landscape, the mentality of the people, etc. And I have to say, although it's purely subjective, that the language spoken here in the swiss-german part, is probably the ugliest of the world... sometimes it's really painful for the ears :D It has something of funny though, and I tried my best to lean a bit of it, but it's really hard. (look and listen to the video under, it's a political debate)
Erik wanted me to go to Zürich to have a coffee next week, I just told him that we would maybe meet another time, I don't really want to ride the train for 2 and a half hour just to have a drink with him... let's say that the motivation is not really the same as in the good old times :)
4 comments:
good for you Darling....
and merry, merry Xmas to you !
love and Kisses from Xico
Hahaha, I couldn't under that YouTube clip at all. XD Then again, I can't understand German at all. :P
Good decision on the Eric part.
Actually, I think that German is really beautiful. It sounds somewhat Italian-flavored to me. :]
And if you think that's ugly, you've get to hear Chumash, lol!
It sounds a little bit like Bavarian dialect. I only caught a couple of words, but the vowel sounds and the rhythm reminded me of Bavarian. Actually, at this point even my Hochdeutsch, which was never very good, is extremely rusty.
It's unfortunate that the semester in Basel wasn't what you had hoped, but at least you did have the experience and drew the conclusions about wanting to continue to live in your home area.
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