
I'm a simple emigrant and I like the German language
But in my five years here I never really started to learn it properly. Before the move I knew only a few words, and the vocabulary was quite strange. For example, Sicherheitsrat – the Security Council, I knew it because I did the UN model, gesundheit – 'be healthy' – a German friend taught me during our exchange, and so on, a bunch of useless random little words. Then I basically lived in the milieu, putting my microscopic knowledge into practice right away, spoke in a funny and incorrect way, but I spoke. I think my spoken German is now somewhere around B1, and my grammar is below A1. Nevertheless, recently I watched three films in German, two of which I understood completely, and the third – about 30%, if not less. Sharing: Willkommen bei den Hartmanns – a comedy about a German family that takes in a refugee to help with the crisis. A funny and sometimes down-to-earth film, with fairly simple German. Kalte Füße – a film about a thief who turns out to be a good guy inside. A typical cute comedy with a good ending; I even giggled a few times, the German is understandable too. Isi & Ossi – a rom‑com where a girl from a good family, to spite her parents, hooks up with a boxer-gangster. Not particularly understandable German; friends say it’s because half the film was in ghett0 German. All three films I can recommend watching, mainly for practicing German. If you want advice on films by plot, you can check out our friend Yulia's channel Насмотрелась, which talks about cinema and makes cool interactive content (not an advertisement!). What films do you watch to practice the language? #madeinGermany #language