Wow, you make me really proud to be a Viennese
Can I ask how you started to get interested in German? I have to admit that I probably wouldn't learn it if it wasn't my mother tongue...
Actually, my very first experience of German was in Austria. I was eleven years old and living with a foster mother in England. My mother said we could take a holiday somewhere and my foster mother asked me if I wanted a winter holiday or a summer holiday. I of course said winter -- I hated the cold and wanted to go somewhere sunny and warm. She thought I wanted a winter sports holiday!
Aaargh! Crazy!
It was the LAST thing I wanted. Nut I was too shy to say so, and so we went to Gaschurn, in Vorarlburg, and I learnt to ski. I ended up having a great time, but it was so weird because all the village children would stare at me and call out Negerlein, Negerlein when I walked past.
I learnt to count to ten in German and to say, "please pass me the dictionary". We stayed in a hotel called Haus in der Sonne. When I returned to England I started to learn German at school by choice, but I didn't like the teacher so I dropped it.
Much later, when I was living in India, I met my first German husband. He brought me to Frankfurt. There I complete an intensive German course and got thorough grounding; apart form that it was a total imersion experience and I learnt it pretty quickly. I actually love the language, even though it isn't as pretty or romantic as French or Spanish.
@ kasapv: you can post in either language -- whatever you like. People who open this thread are usually German speakers, but if not, they know what waits for them here!