German

[coccinelle]

When someone asks you Wie geht's? instead of just saying the usual 'Gut' what can you say to say 'not too bad'?
Is this correct? Was hast du heute gemacht?
And what is the german for a park, as in a park you would go walking around?

[KARL]

Gute Nacht bambiagain, ja es ist spät geworden und ich bin auch weg. Tschüss, alles Gute.

CJ242, I should have mentioned that "Nichts zu tun" actually is also a statement of a sort of resignation in the right context: "There is nothing that can be done", as in "No way out" or similar.

[KARL]

Gute Nacht bambiagain, ja, es ist spät geworden und ich bin auch weg. Tschüss, alles Gute.

CJ242: I should have mentioned that in the right context "Nichts zu machen" is a statement of resignation "Nothing can be done", as in "No way out".

[KARL]

Hah, never noticed we were onto the next page - apologies for double entry.

[coccinelle]

Thank you everybody for your last night's answers, just seen them. That's a real german lesson for me to study plus I got more words there than I needed.

[Bambiagain]

Hey, you can never have too many words! I learned a little German at school (too many years ago to remember) and came here having to learn almost from scratch. The memory's not what it once was, so it's not easy, but I now get by most of the time unaided. The vocabulary you learn in formal lessons is never what you need in real life. Hope you can cope with what you need now.

[cc1]

Wie geht's? Geht's so we used to use for a non-commital response not forgetting the ubiquitous OK danke, und Sie?