Wildlach in Tomato Soße

Now that I am getting a better grip of communicating, reading and writing in Deutsch, I have now my dear old friend English left behind more and more. I swear to you that its taking me much longer than usual to form a simple English sentence, needless to say, getting my grammer, spelling and what not right. Today, or rather this week, my head had been filled day in day out with old and new Deutsch words - of which some are similiar but had a slight variation in spelling, and its grammer, its grammerrrrr still haunts me whenever either of my teachers bestowed me a simple grammatic question.

I, or shall I say the WHOLE CLASS concludes that ...

• Deutsch grammer is super complicated. When its past tense or Perfekt (as its called here), the grammer position changes, the spelling changes (acceptable coz English is similiar) and additional words are added to confuse you. In English, the only thing that changes are the spelling of the verb. Let me give you a simple example; Ich essen in der Cafe (means I eat in the Cafe, and I think Cafe is Masculine hence der application) but when its Perfekt, it became Ich habe in der Cafe Gegessen. Why can´t it be as simple as I am eating in the cafe and I ate in the cafe. If the verb that demonstrate an action of going from point A to point B, such as walking, running, flying .. than use Sein, which is like English´s I AM. There´s a few exception of course. But if its other verb, than use English´s I HAVE.
• Deutsch has this superb way of applying Masculine, Feminine and Neutral to every thing except verb and the only way to get it right is to REMEMBER IT. Don´t ask me why Lippenstift (lipstick) is Masculine, Auto (car) is Neutral and Strasse (street) is Feminine. God knows!
• There are some Unnessassary Words but everyone uses it to confuse new learners like me (words like Doh, Ja, Mal, etc)
• Don´t even get me started on how long can the words get or how difficult can the pronounciation get.
• Deutsch likes to Join Few Words Together to make it as long as possible. And some words don´t make sense at all eg Hand (hand) + Shuhe (shoe) = Handshuhe (glove). Bah.
• There´s 3 Additional Vowel in Deutsch ON TOP of English´s usual 5. And the 3 vowels with the cutesy Umlaub are as difficult to pronounce as any Greek names. My teacher taught me a method of `think another vowel in head, but say what´s suppose to with mouth!` For example, to pronounce Ä, think of O but say A.
• A is pronounced as AAAAAAA, E is pronounced as English A, and I is pronounced as English E. How fabulous is that!
• A verb changes as to whom its applied for. For example NEED is Brauchen. Ich (I) brauche, Du (you) braust, Er/Sie/Es (he/she/it) brauct, Wir (we) brauchen, Ihr (you all) brauct and Sie/sie (you but Formal/they) brauchen. And so, I have to memories 6 differentiation of a single verb. AND, the rule of shortening the verb to include only e, st, t, maintain -en, t and maintain -en does not apply to all verb.

My exam is due in two weeks time and I´m overwhelmed by the amount of revision I have to do. To make things worst, we have been given double the amount of homework everyday, I have to fully understand the 5 missed lessons when I was in KL, and remember ALL THE ABOVE.

Stressed.

Wish me luck please!

Leaving you another simple recipe, again.

• Poached a piece of 200 grams Salmon in pot of hot water. Season with some salt.
• In a pan, sautee half chopped onion with some oil for a minute or two.
• Place a handful of brussel sprouts in, and let it cook for two minutes.
• Pour half cup of tomato pulp in and let it simmer for 5 minutes, under slow heat. Season with some salt.
• Drain the salmon and place them onto a plate. Assemble the brussel sprouts and its accompanying sauce as you wish.

Guten Appetit!