The first lesson in A level German was our teacher first teaching us that this tense existed, and then teaching it in German, and telling us that while we might not find ourselves using it much in our written work (you don't tend to use the bits of a new language that are not common to your own until you have *really* internalised it), we would now start seeing it in work we were expected to translate.

It was a bit of a shock after a fairly easy slide into GCSE (as in, I found all the concepts easy, I just lacked confidence in spoken German).

I did find it an excellent way to get bonus points in essays in German, though.

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