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feuervogel) wrote2009-12-22 07:31 pm
feuervogel) wrote2009-12-22 07:31 pm
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Ponder, ponder
So, I ordered the Lonely Planet city guides for Vienna and Budapest a few days ago. They arrived today (I was pretty shocked, actually.)
Reading through the Vienna book makes me wonder if I'd rather go there for a month than Berlin, regardless of whether I can afford it. It's strange. I love Berlin, all the Cold War relics, and the Hohenzollern stuff and the former Prussia and everything. But since I introduced the idea of going to Vienna instead, my brain's tending in that direction. I admit to a rather romantic notion of Vienna, with the coffee houses and Opera and Habsburg relics.
I'm torn.
Reading through the Vienna book makes me wonder if I'd rather go there for a month than Berlin, regardless of whether I can afford it. It's strange. I love Berlin, all the Cold War relics, and the Hohenzollern stuff and the former Prussia and everything. But since I introduced the idea of going to Vienna instead, my brain's tending in that direction. I admit to a rather romantic notion of Vienna, with the coffee houses and Opera and Habsburg relics.
I'm torn.
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The thing is? I haven't heard of the schools offering classes there, except Berlitz, and they're more expensive than Goethe (E637 for 2 weeks!) Lonely Planet mentioned Inlingua as being well regarded, though they're almost as expensive as Goethe (E945/4 wks.) It looks like they have more instructional hours, maybe, and they focus on speaking. Which is kind of nice, because I feel like I can read fine, but expressing my thoughts is harder (whether written or spoken.)
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Goethe sounds very well-regarded, and, well, I suppose you could try to go to Vienna and really devote yourself to vacationing a few years down the road...
...but OMFG! Vienna! ;o;
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