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29
Jun
2009
The German Language
German is easy!
What is the most difficult language in the world? The German people say it’s Chinese and there’s a clear proof for that: According to a German proverb, if you hear them say “I just know Chinese about that”, which doesn’t actually mean they can speak Chinese but that they know nothing about it. So through this you see how they fear of the Chinese language. But German is not easy either. Personally I’ve already learned German for like three or four years, but comparing to the English language, it’s so hard that until now I still make a lot of grammatic mistakes and sometimes you get so frustrated as well due to the many slangs and accents. And you get somehow confused by the reverse oder of the sentence organization and just forget about it is an usual thing and also practical for you to relieve the pain^_^ One German friend adviced me to get really melted into the daily life, but what the hell does that account when I already live with 8 German guys? He then answered: “Don’t always talk about study and academical crap, let’s also talk about some interesting things like computer games, alcohol and Bars cause learning a foreign language requires you to stay relaxed first.” I then agreed and got to their modern way of learning. Later after that we even built a learning group as they also showed great interest in learning Chinese. I still remember in our first class we started with dirts words in both languages and it is really a good beginning. No kidding, there are so many things in common to show how people all over the world think in the same way and my German learning becomes accelerated too, meanwhile I’m also proud of being able to have a bunch of German pupils!
29
Jun
2009
Football! (Part II )
Celebration for becoming world champion!
The strongest team of the world: the Women’s football team of Germany! Sexy but definitely offensive! Talking about football, surely that I can’t help thinking about that of our country in China. And you can have my words that it would be easily destroyed by the German girls! A friend of mine who lives at the moment in the South Germany tells me that along in his small city there have already been 16 football clubs for women. Fortunately I also had a chance to watch the training of a women’s football team in the near and I wonder, whether people here train them the way they train a guys’ team. There have been so many strict requirements they have to meet such as finishing a distance of 5,000m within a certain time and strength training. They’re simply “monsters” in my eyes and my friend made joke to me that I’ll also be finished if I marry a girl in that team^_^ But there remains a same problem with the women’s football game: fair treatment. Fair support from the federation, fair pay and fair rights. So it won’t be the short way to make large amount of money, the girls are fighting more for glory, of their own, and of the country!
29
Jun
2009
Football! (Part I )
For what do we live in the world? Germans would say: Drinking beer! And for what do we drink so much beer? They would say: Watching football! Every time at big football events such as World Cup or European Championship Cup and so on, you will surely see masses of people gathering together in colourful costumes and make-up to support their football team. They make up passionate songs and mottos as well all by themselves and shout out loud all the way to draw people’s attention to join them in the revelry. Once the fans of the opponent side of a match are also there, then there begin very funny quarrels and sometimes even big fights. But football hooligans are rare, the most people still hold the bottom line cause they know they come to enjoy the game but not mess things up as a support for their beloved team.
Germany almost became world champion for quite a lot of times and they surely belong to the first-classic teams of the world. You never know how many football clubs there are in Germany and how much they’ve invested into it. People just love it! We watched live shows at home with friends, when the German team shot a goal, there was a loud “hurray!” not only in the chamber but everywhere and when the kickers lost a good chance, there arose a thundering “Schei……sse” all over the city at the same time! Germans turn to kids in front of football and that’s one lovely emotional side of precise German people with whom we are familiar with.
Surely this helps you better understand the fun football brings than Balack, doesn’t it^_^
29
Jun
2009
Graffiti and doodle
the smart anti-spying way
In Germany everybody can be an artist to draw! Cause every cement wall is your palette to work on and express your mind, without any worried that you’ll be punished under the excuse of spoiling publish infrastructures. In many countries this action would normally be seen as foul and related to a mess, thus strictly prohibited, but Germans conceive a more tolerant mind toward it and consider that merely a way of outlet of personal opinions and also artistic talent. I never have once understood those lettered doodled on walls or surfaces of trains or ground, wherever, but I do think without these graffiti works the city would have become boring and less vibrant. I once asked one doodling guy who was going to pay for all the costs for paints brushes and so on or whether they were hired to do this, they said they paid everything all by themselves and they wanna to that because creating a more colourful world is their responsibility! What a cute argument!^_^
But I guess you won’t be very happy to find out the front door of your house is messed up with paintings when you wake up. there are indeed many people as well, who really hate this and simply go mad and even call a police. According to a research, alone in the region of Rhein-Ruhr in 2003 it cost already € 30 million to wipe the graffiti clean, which obviously would last not long till the next “attack”. So people begin to set cameras in public places and try to fight back, which did have received good results. But Graffiti and doodle still go on, constituting an amazing artificial scenery of Germany, which I do love very much^_^!
a very famous grafitti in the Cold War time on Berliner Wall
a gorgeous three demensional Doodle art