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Rose (memoriesofyesterdays) posted an update Wednesday, Oct 26, 2011, 6:31pm EDT, 13 years, 11 months ago
ohhh Sam, Max and Moritz were creepy 🙁
I was in German school when mom met dad, and was taught the proper Oxford English. I constantly argued with the teacher because Dad didn't sound like that and I much prefered his English. I adored him, and wanted to be able to have conversations with him, he always insisted that I try to speak English to him, even though he understood German, because I would some day end up in the US and needed to know the language. Now my German is so rusty I'd be embarrassed trying to have a conversation in German.
Of course when mother was "out of it" during her recent surgery, she reverted to speaking German 95% of the time (something she hadn't done in 40 years). I could still understand it though 🙂