After over a year of taking German, sitting in class still feels like drowning and struggling to stay above water in a giant, fathomless pool over and over again while everyone else is nonchalantly treading water and pretending to throw floaties at me and having a grand old time sprechen-ing ihren Deutsch. And then when we have oral exams, it feels the same way except with the addition of my instructor shoving my head underwater every time I’m close enough to the surface to breathe.
Anyone who has drowned will understand this. Also, anyone who has nearly drowned, as they are alive and can read. Unless they went blind from being underwater for too long. Or from fear.
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