Voon-der-ful!

Okay, so if you read the last post, you heard that I'm sans- tv, which means that I'm relying a lot more on the radio for background noise at home. And I'm actually starting to pick up a little German along the way. And by a little, I'm talking one word a week. (Hey, that's not so bad! That's like, 52 words a year! I'll have 104 by the time this is over!) ANYWAY, since I've been listening, I've picked a couple of German words that are among the best or funny sounding...usually I will hear a word in particular that I like over and over and over on the radio every week. So, what's the word of this week, you ask? Well, the one that I keep hearing over and over this week is "wunderbar". It's pronounced voon-der-bahr... it actually sounds a little like something that Willy Wonka might produce at the chocolate factory, I guess. But I digress. After hearing it for about the tenth time from callers-in on various radio shows this week, I finally broke down and asked my German-speaking Dutch assistant (I know, I know...it's complicated) for a translation of vooon-der-baaaaaah. It means, simply, wonderful, and has surpassed last weeks word ("genau", which means "exactly") to become my new favorite. What the heck, might as well give it a whirl! Have a wunderbar weekend!