Well today was raining a lot! Rain all the time is a bummer, but I still made it into deutsch kurs as I was feeling better today. Something hard about learning in a group is feeling that everyone is learning faster than you or that you are getting left behind. Because I have ended up missing quite a lot of lessons, this has happened to me on occasion. When there are particular words or grammar rules that everyone else seems to know apart from you. But I think its also important to remember that there are some exercises that are easy for some people and hard for others, and that this tends to even out. I know that there have been some exercises that I’ve found very easy and that others have struggled with, and equally there are times when its taken me a really long time to understand and other people have understood immediately. My advice is to not worry about this too much and if there is something that you find particularly hard, don’t be afraid to ask the teacher to explain. If the teacher is good they will explain it to you until you understand. For me that sometimes means having it explained in English. What I have liked about my current teacher is that she is happy to explain things as many times as you need :)