Easter 2011
The greeting exchanged three times, and the correct response, which took me several years to say without thinking.
Christ is risen.
The greeting has a fixed structure and I got it wrong for years. One person says the greeting, the other gives the response, and it is exchanged three times. Not once, and not as a general remark to a room.
The mistake a foreigner makes is treating it as a pleasantry, said in passing while doing something else. It is not that. You stop, you face the person, and you complete the exchange.
Somewhere around this year I stopped having to remember it. That is a different kind of fluency from vocabulary, and it takes longer.
A peaceful Easter to your household.
Christ is risen.
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