GreenEye Wire

I’ve started to learn German. Then I stop. Then I start up again. Then I get bored and stop again. But I’ve found a site that I think will inspire me to learn German once and for all. (Shameless SEO link right there…but these guys look to be cool, so they get one.)

Give boring German the middle finger: Pukka teaches popular German idioms, the best slang words, funny German sayings and useful German phrases.

No idea how good this site is, but the finger on the front page gave me a good laugh. Although don’t Germans use two fingers instead of their middle one? I’ll have to ask my friend Boris if it is two fingers or it is the middle one. I love Boris because he’s a German guy who looks American. And since I’m the American who looks German, it makes me smile when we walk together and strangers in Germany speak to me, not him.   And, Boris is a hell of a guy…genuinely a good person.

There’s also a very active ‘Speak German’ meetup group here in the Dallas area, so if I learn enough ‘clever sayings’, I might have to go test them out.