Slowly I am trying to piece together verbs with separable and inseparable prefixes and prepositions. It was easy with english: content, extend, pretend, intend… Now it’s back to scratching my nails on the chalkboard with 3x as many prefixes.
But I saw some results this morning with the exercises. Doloris didn’t bite today, yeah! She’s a pretty hardcore teacher…very traditional in some sense and has a hard time deviating but she is really does try to improve our memorization of the words. She hijacks the copier to give us more exercises that are lacking in our super expensive workbooks.
Inlingua is a business run by a less than efficient administration. One girl in my class was very upset because she paid for 20 hours of class per week but she will lose 4 hours due to the holiday on 3 October to celebrate the reunification of East and West Germany. They won’t let her make up the time.
I am learning that there is virtually no such think as customer satisfaction or service in Munich. This is evident in the post office, grocery stores, and restaurants. Maybe, it’s the local Bavarians that are just ticked that so many foreigners have resided in their city or they just don’t know otherwise to be something other than grumpy and unhelpful. So this is just one of the facts of life you have to face here and find another way to getting what you want. There is usually one person that knows what’s going on and will be very helpful. Apparently this is typical of all the language schools in Germany, but from what I’ve heard from other students who have tried the other language schools, Inlingua is one of, if not the best, language school.
