My experience with German so far has been quite an interesting journey. When we originally talked about moving to Germany in June of 2014, I really quickly realized that because of our timing I did not have time to take any kind of German class in Pittsburgh. Thus, I arrived in Germany having ZERO experience to the point where I didn’t even know how to pronounce certain letters of the alphabet. We arrived in the last week of October (a little over a year ago) and with trying to get things settled (school, house, etc.) my German classes didn’t start until January. I am really happy that as part of Chris’ contract we both got private classes. My original teacher was about as German as you get and I think she did a great job teaching me basic of German but she also had some little nuances that weren’t ideal for me. For example, she had a heavy Hessian accent (area where we live) – it’s kind of like learning English with Pittsburgh accent, yinz! Nothing against accent