I have like a month and a half left to pack all our things and ship them to Europe. I hate it! Not Europe but moving in general. I hate the stress that accompanies it. I hate leaving a place (I meant our flat, not this country) and people I know and became friends with. I hate starting from a scratch somewhere where we don’t know anybody. Fine, Austria is a small country and Marcus’ parent’s place can’t be that far but still, we will be in a new neighbourhood with new people talking new language (for me at least). Sure, I can already catch some sentences when I am watching movies in German but I have a difficulty understanding Austrians. You see one funny thing about Austrians is the fact that even if they are able to speak high German, they refuse to and I don’t know why. If I asked my husband to talk to me in high German, he says something like “Alright, but only to you.”
I hope that it’s not that difficult to get them to talk in English.
Hi – just found your blog!
I lived in Germany for about nine months, and have visited Austria before. Don’t worry – you’ll pick up day-to-day German pretty quickly. At least, I did, and I have absolutely no head for languages. And while Austrians don’t exactly speak Hoch Deutsch, I didn’t have much trouble understanding them when I visited (and I had been living up near Hamburg, where the accents are very different). It all gets a lot easier when you’re living in the country.
(And if worse comes to worse, a LOT of people speak English just fine.)