Genau! Danke sehr fur die korrektur, Kebrel. Yeah, all the German I know was learned vocally, and much of it locally -- I had a week "crash course" in a Bavarian town. Hell if I know how to speak hochdeutsch. Ordering dinners was fun; luckily, I knew the most important phrase:
Sprechen Sie Englisch?
Most everyone seems to speak English in Nuremberg and probably all the major cities, but it's a bit more rare in the countryside, which made for some interesting times.