Stahlke Adoption

Monday Before Breakfast

The "German-ness" of the Duesseldorf airport is comfortingly familiar compared with the world of Cyrillic we are about to enter. In Germany, we understand much of what we hear, even if our speaking skills are rusty. Unfortunately, the foreign language part of our brain is getting a little confused:


Jonathan: Guten Tag! (Hello!)

Storekeeper: Guten Morgen! (Good morning!)

Jonathan: Darf man Marks einkaufen? (Can one buy Marks here?)

Storekeeper: Nein, Euros!
(Yes, when we lived in Halle, Germany still used Marks.)

Jonathan: Haben Sie Postkarten? (Do you have postcards?)

Storekeeper: Ansichtskarten? (The German term for postcards)

Jonathan: Tak! (Yes, in Ukrainian!)

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I´m just thankful that he´s willing to do the talking!

posted by Stahlkes @ 2:50 AM