One of those subtle ways you can tell you’re advancing in a language is what you talk about to others who are also learning said language during an evaluation. A year ago today, I would have said something along the lines of:

“Hello! Where are you from?”
(Guten Tag! Woher kommst du…okay, no more German)

Today, I managed to have this conversation, which the teacher overheard in the exact wrong moment:

Graeme: So, is your penis the size of a paperclip?
Stole: No…my penis is the size of the table!

Let us not forget the fun we had playing with German profanity, too. Scheiße! Fickst du, ja!