Letter to Rizal
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Letter of Rizal Apolinario J. Katipunan Department of Mining Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Instructor’s Name: Sharon Pangilinan 12 Ludwigsplatz, Heidelberg 20 March 1886 MY DEAR PARENTS AND BROTHERS, Winter is over and this is now spring. Here the changes of the season are greatly appreciated for a great contrast is noted in the change. After the cold of a severe winter, after so much ice and so much snow and so much fog, in two or three days, the sky turns blue, the air becomes moderately warm, snow and ice melt. Men lay aside their wraps and overcoats and the women put on lighter dresses of various colors. The change of seasons is more notable in Germany than in Madrid. Now my windows are open; I hear and see the children playing noisily in the square whose trees are beginning to sprout again. This is so beautiful that one feels like singing. Everybody tells me that I have made very rapid and surprising progress in the German language. Now I already speak it and the Germans understand me; that is, high German or hochdeutsch, for I don't speak or study the dialect spoken in this city or the Heidelberger Deutsch, being a dialect and neither a scientific nor literary language. I hope that before the end of the eight months I have fixed, I shall be able to leave Germany and go to England, or whatever you think convenient. I still have money to live on for 27 days and to pay the house rent. If by chance I don't receive money until May, Luna has spontaneously offered to send me money any time I may need it as he has some, for being a good painter, half the year he is poor and the other half he seems like a millionaire. ... References
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Letter of Rizal
Apolinario J. KatipunanDepartment of Mining Metallurgical, and Materials EngineeringUniversity of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, PhilippinesInstructor’s Name: Sharon Pangilinan
12 Ludwigsplatz, Heidelberg20 March 1886
MY DEAR PARENTS AND BROTHERS,
Winter is over and this is now spring. Here the changes of the season are greatly appreciated for a great contrast is noted in the change. After the cold of a severe winter, after so much ice and so much snow and so much fog, in two or three days, the sky turns blue, the air becomes moderately warm, snow and ice melt. Men lay aside their wraps and overcoats and the women put on lighter dresses of various colors. The change of seasons is more notable in Germany than in Madrid. Now my windows are open; I hear and see the children playing noisily in the square whose trees are beginning to sprout again. This is so beautiful that one feels like singing.
Everybody tells me that I have made very rapid and surprising progress in the German language. Now I already speak it and the Germans understand me; that is, high German or hochdeutsch, for I don't speak or study the dialect spoken in this city or the Heidelberger Deutsch, being a dialect and neither a scientific nor literary language. I hope that before the end of the eight months I have fixed, I shall be able to leave Germany and go to England, or whatever you think convenient.
I still have money to live on for 27 days and to pay the house rent. If by chance I don't receive money until May, Luna has spontaneously offered to send me money any time I may need it as he has some, for being a good painter, half the year he is poor and the other half he seems like a millionaire. ...
Referencesn.d. Rizals letters to Heidelberg (II) addressed to his family in Calamba, Philippines (1886). 23 August
2015. <http://ufreytag.michel-media.de/page19.html>.
