nope, I had to call her to tell her that my dad was in the hospital and I was telling her in very broken German from the translator. She got the gist, obviously, but it was very difficult because she was asking me questions in German and I couldn't even decipher them to put into the translator. It was absolutely horrible telling her that he died - literally "dad dead".

I really do wish my dad spoke to us in German as children, at the very least we would've had the capacity to understand spoken German if not speaking it ourselves. I'd like to learn it, I think it sounds really cool, but it's a really difficult language to learn.