Imagine you are writing a postcard from your city to GermanPod101. Post the text here!

Liebe Judith und lieber Chuck

Ich werde später schreiben weil ich nun keine Zeit habe.

Entschuldigung.

Liebe Grüße

Peter

PS: The conditional tense? In a beginner lesson? I am not sure I know what the conditional tense is in English, let alone German! Howeer, I am sure I would know if you were to teach me. This is just like studying Advanced Mathematics at school and going on to study Elementary Mathematics at university, isn’t it? Anyway, I have a question. I think “Ich möchte” means “I would like”. Does “Ich würde mögen” mean the same thing?

PPS: To type an Umlaut I copy from the Character Map and paste into my comment. Typing Umlauts is a real fag. Do you know a way that is only a fake fag? I have tried pressing the Alt button and typing a numeric code but that doesn’t seem to work. I have looked at the German keyboard in the Control Panel but all the letters are in the wrong place. Zu Hilfe, bitte! (NB: I do not have a master’s degree in Computer Science!)

If you are using a Mac, you should press “alt/option” (the key beside the apple) + u, then the letter you need to be “umlauted”

If you are using a Windows:

alt + 132 = ä
alt + 142 = Ä

alt + 148 = ö
alt + 153 = Ö

alt + 129 = ü
alt + 154 = Ü

alt + 225 = ß

I don’t know whether there is another way of doing these symbols in an American keyboard, but I hope this can help