AMD #1

For my first AMD, I decided to read the article titled "In Germany, Wild for Winnetou." This was a very interesting piece that touched on a German fascination with the American Wild West. This struck me as funny. It was all because of a con-man who hadn't even met a Native American until much later in his career decided to write about Western life. Karl May immensely shaped German views on American culture, and not in a positive light. German people sympathized with the Indians. Do Germans still read his publications after finding out that it was all made up? This is similar to the novel "Go Ask Alice", which was an anti-drug publication that initially claimed to be an anonymous account of someone addicted to drugs but turned out to be anti-drug propaganda. Was this anti-American work?

AMD 1 - Scott Aldworth

Für meine erste AMD, I played FIFA 13, a Fußball videogame, with adjusted settings so that the commentators spoke in deutsche. It was difficult to make out entire sentences for the most part because sie sprechen schnell und passionately.  There were however, phrases and words that ich verstehe and other words that I could decipher using my knowledge of Fußball. I figured out that "Treffer" and "Tor" are the words for a goal, "halbzeit" is halftime, and "Mittelfeldspieler" is a midfielder. I went on to look up Deutsche Fußball terms and words and learned many more from just a little bit of research. A "Sonntagsschuss" is a difficult shot, usually from a long distance. 
I chose to only use Bundesliga teams and the german national team while I played so that I heard primarily deutsche names, which helped with my pronunciation. Hearing names like "Mesut Özil" und "Bastian Schweinsteiger" that I already know help with my mastering of difficult German pronunciations. Overall the experience was interessant, educational, und lustig! 

AMD 1

For AMD 1 I changed the language on my Facebook page over to German for and hour. Many of the words were still in English because my friends still wrote in English and the advertisements didn't change. However, when I did start reading the German words on my page I had no idea what they meant. I started looking at where the words were located which tell me what the words meant. For example, I know Gefällt mir means like. Kommentieren means comment. Geburtstage means birthday. While I don't know the meaning of all the words, I have enough experience with Facebook to navigate it in German and understand a decent amount of what I was reading.

Andrew Kim AMD 1

So for my AMD I was initially thinking about watching Southpark in German, which still sounds fun and interesting to do. However, at the last second I was talking with a friend about his favorite films and how his favorite director happened to be Quentin Tarantino. When Inglorious Basterds was mentioned, it dawned on me that I had a very good chance to review some German while at the same time watching a Tarantino masterpiece. I spent my Saturday night watching Inglorious Basterds on my friends projector in Deutsch. Needless to say, it was a good two and a half hours spent. Having only watched the movie once in English, watching it in Deutsch with subtitles was almost the same as watching it over again because I was trying to keep up with the dialogues and new language. It was fun, educating, and honestly just time well spent. I'm glad I decided to start my adventures in Deutsch with this film because it is and will be one of my more favorite films.