For our SECOND MEETING, we decided to meet at TAMK, because I already had courses in the morning. We had lunch at the cafeteria and talked about our week and the Stockholm trip. Both of us went to the trip to Stockholm organized by CLINT and we met at the ferry. It was fun spending the first evening together with our friends.
I am going to help Flóra out with deepen her German skills in speaking. She already can speak German very well. At our last meeting, we talked a lot about us, our life in Germany/Hungary and our family. I told her, that I am already in the master’s degree and I am looking forward earning my own money, because my parents paid the largest part of my expenses during my study. While talking to her I used a typical German phrase “jemandem auf der Tasche liegen” which means to live on the expanse of somebody. Flóra told me that she understood what I wanted to say but she never heard it before. So, I prepared some typical phrases we usually use in Germany for our second meeting and explained them to her.
To cite a few examples, Germans use the phrase “den Faden verlieren” to tell somebody that they lose sight of what they are trying to do, e.g. a blackout in a presentation. I think in English you can say “lose the thread”. Or another example is “Ach du grüne Neune!“ which is an exclamation of surprise or astonishment. In English you say “Good grief!“ or „Gorblimey!“.
After I explained Flóra the German phrases we revised the vocabulary I learned last time.
At our next meeting we are going to cook some typical Hungarian food together. We haven’t decided yet which one, but I am really looking forward to it 🙂
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