When you first start out in the beginner phase, you can only say things like “Ick heisse John. Ick kann sprecken Deutsch.” At this point you sound like a moron, but as your German improves to the point where you can talk about the weather, your credibility as an intelligent human sky rockets and peaks at the point where you realize that when you look up words in the German/English dictionary you shouldn’t always pick the one that sounds just like English because it shares a Latin root. [...] (Nothing For Ungood)

Nothing for Ungood, an expatriate blog “poking a little fun at life in Germany from an American perspective”, gives us a detailed overview of how English speakers advance from the “you sound like a moron” level of German speaking skills to a rather sophisticated one where you know how to juggle your sausage/pig references in routine conversations.

Definitely a good read and worth checking out during the slump season at philafication.com (due to a examination week coming up next week)… Sorry for that.