Literally it means 'Do you wanna go with me?' - do you want to be my boy/girlfriend?
During spring break my university offers free lectures for kids. "Willst du mit mir gehen? Wie sage ich es richtig?" was the title of today's lecture. I consider myself lucky to be part of this, because adults don't have access to this event - beside the profs and us. the whole auditorium is taken over by children. chatting. eating. carving their names in the tables. taking notes. screaming or dreaming.
living communication science explained by a prof with the classic boy meets girl schema. Paul likes Paula. What should he do? - one boy suggested a kiss. a girl liked a love letter 'with a lot of hearts on it' better. more notes were taken. another girl underlined, that he really should take care writing the letter. So boys, if you want to pop the question -for your own good- 'borrow' some letter paper with horse prints from your sister.
Afterwards I had interesting conversation with a 10 year old boy.
boy: "the girl I'm in love with couldn't come today."
Alice: "You already have a girlfriend, nice. so how did you handle this whole getting together thing?"
boy: "I don't know, she did everything."
Willst du mit mir gehen? = Quieres ser mi novia/o? Quieres andar conmigo? is what in Mexico guys and more recently girls say if they want to be with somebody (not only used by kids ;) )...call it weird or altmodisch...still we think has to be offical by saying it.
AntwortenLöschenBeing in Europe caused me a bit of confusion....When do you know if you are together or not with someone??? ;) Still wondering and learning about this social code... :)