German words of the week:
Prima – Great, the best
Ausgezeichnet – Excellent

I am in the process of habituating myself to using these words instead of ‘toll’, which I was taught in highschool to mean ‘great’, but I looked it up yesterday in the Random House German-English dictionary, which gave its meaning as ‘bodacious’. So when waiters have asked me in restaurants ‘Hatte es ein gutes Geschmack?’ (Did it taste good?) as they are wont to do when they take your plate, I have been answering ‘Ja, es war toll, danke schön’ (Yes, it was bodacious, thankyou). Ha! It’s quite good, really.