Another Important Step in Learning German.
Like most married couples who have been together for more than one year, we have our power struggles choosing the TV schedule ! For us, one year was more or less the end of the " honeymoon " phase and the emergence of the " real " us. For my part, it used to be " whatever you would like to watch is fine with me, honey ", while slightly cringing inside at the prospect of watching more sport ! For Bob, most likely, he saw far too many romances in our first year of marriage ...But all this is in past !
Saturday evening, one of Bob's favorite movies was on TV ( albeit dubbed into German )...Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
About half an hour before Bob's movie started, I changed the station onto the right one for Bob. The News ( in German ) was on. I was in the kitchen making our supper and Bob was chatting to me about various things he saw on the News. A curious and funny thing about sound ( for me ) is, that while I am sitting in front of the TV, it seems too soft and I turn up the volume often. Yet in the kitchen, it seems extremely loud.
As I was chopping and stirring the food, I listened to the News and so knew that Bob had really understood most of it ( Bob's been learning German for a year now ). All over sudden, I could hear Bob talking unkindly to the remote ! Finally he asked me, " Schatzi ( my artistic licence ) What channel is my movie on ? "" Bob, I already had it on the right channel. You were watching it just now. " To which Bob replied, " It wasn't the right channel. I have been watching the News in English, and the movie is on a German channel. "
Yeah, Bob is already processing German as if it was his native English ! Of course he did not believe me at first, but then when he realized that he watched German but thought it was English, he grinned from ear to ear...
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