Aine's expectations of learning a new language

My expectations for learning a new language weren't very optimistic all I thought about was being left behind,not understanding,it being too hard.Honestly I was scared that I would say a word wrong and people would make fun of me . I was wrong I wasn't left behind, I did understand ,it was difficult at first studying a language but I did what miss told me to do ,play games ,talk to my self in german for an entire week whenever I walk up stairs I would count everyone around me could here "eins ,zwei ,Drei "and so on . I believe that is what helped me . If I said a word wrong the teacher would correct me and that was it the next time I'd say that word I'd say it right . Here I am 6 months on and it's easy ,simple I don't know what I was worried about.my favourite thing in german is learning the origin of words and reading words and knowing I understand them. I'm not going to lie german is hard accents aren't something I've ever been good at but I try and soon I'm sure I'll get it . If one was to ask me what my favourite German word was I would say without a doubt Erdmännchen little man of the earth or meerkats .