Thinking about what it is that I should do in my studies at Brigham Young University, I have struggled for a long time in deciding what it is I should do. For a long time, I thought about being a psychologist, maybe take some music lessons, learn a foreign language, and recently, it was brought up to me by my father-in-law about going into Political Science.
Of course, my wife wants me to do for a career what ever I choose to do. She reminded me of a time early in our courtship, that I had expressed a great interest and desire in learning (ancient) foreign languages, and that I would like to travel abroad.
The language that I want to study is German (Deutsch) Ich bin lernen Deutsch. My wife said that she would learn the language with me, and that we can put our children into a German language training program while they are in Elementary School. Recently, since school's been out and I have no job, I have been going through a German Bible (Die Bibel), and the Book of Mormon (Das Buch Mormon). I have started by reading two copies of the Book of Mormon side by side, one in German and one in English, so that I can more easily understand the words that are written in the texts. I have come to see new words in the German that I had difficulty with before; the challenge is being able to retain what I have read and what I am learning.
I was thinking about possibly taking German along with as either a psychology or political science major, but there is still some pondering and praying that I must do on this subject.
I have learned that in German, that Nouns, because all Nouns in German begin with capital letters. The challenges at the moment, as I mentioned before this is retaining what I have read, proper pronunciation, and genders.
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