Introductory German, housemate-style

Using German, and being understood, is one of my greatest (small, beautiful, every-day-life) joys. Week by week the length of the interactions I can have all in German increases (from mere seconds to almost entire minutes at a time!). Not fast enough to satisfy me, and I am burning up to start proper German classes, but the glow of successfully making a purchase, or asking directions, or responding to pleasantries, without needing to switch to English- ah, it's so lovely. If I manage to avoid English for a whole conversation I often get asked if I'm from the Netherlands- apparently, that's what my accent sounds like in German.

I am not in school, and I don't watch the television, so the German I learn comes from: housemates, street signs, overheard conversations, and the Turkish Markets (zwei stuck bitte! Ja, alles!).

Some nights I sit in the kitchen and pester my lovely housemates for more words, more sentences, stringing them together clumsily then practising til I get them right. This being a gigantic political housing project in Berlin, it stands to reason that the sentences I learn are 99% beer & cigarettes. I find these phrases scrawled on ripped-off pieces of paper, tucked into my notebooks and pockets.

I just found the post-it notes with my first housemate-German lesson:
"Kann ich mir von dir eine cigarette drehen?"- Can I roll a cigarette from yours?
"Kanst du mir eine cigarette drehen?"- Can you roll me a cigarette?
"Kann ich hier rauche?"- Can I smoke here? Or the more formal: "Ist es OK fur dich wenn ich hier rauche?"- Is it OK for you if I smoke here?
"Alter, mein tabak!"- Gimme my tobacco back!
And the first phrase of German I learned, on landing here back in 2005: "Hast du feuer?"- the social glue of Berlin, I think, is that simple little phrase.

Tonight we covered:
"Mochtest du bier?"- Would you like beer?
"Mochtest du noch bier?"- Would you like more beer?
"Ich mochte ein bier kaufen"- I'd like to buy a beer
Which morphed into...
"Ich mochte gerne bier kaufen, bitte!" (there was some bickering between housemates about whether one was more correct than the other)
and then a lesson on:
"Ich wurde gerne (something) kaufen"- Ich wurde gerne guthaben kaufen! Ich wurde gerne tomaten kaufen! I want to buy something!

Then we got into wanting things (my spelling goes a bit wobbly here, cos we were well into the bier by now):
"Ich mochte schlafen bitte!"- I'd like to sleep please!
"Ich mochte bitte jetzt schlafen!"- I'd like to sleep now please!
There's some scrawls under that about "schaffen"- to work, build, create, "schaff"- sheep, "scharf"- sharp, "schlaff"- hanging, tired, saggy, which leads directly to:
"Ich fuhle mich schlaff"- I feel saggy! As in, god, I feel wrecked.

And then scharf comes out to play, cos when we really really really want something, we're totally sharp on it:
"Ich bin scharf darauf tanzen zu gehen!"- dude, I am so keen for a dance, you have no idea.
"Ich bin scharf darauf meine haare zu bleichen!" Hell yes my hair needs bleaching!
"Ich bin scharf darauf schwimmen zu gehen!" But it's -2C out, so maybe swimming isn't SUCH a good idea.

For anyone tempted to try to learn German from these transcribed notes, please be aware that there are several dozen crimes against umlauts in the above as I haven't figured out where the umlaut key on my netbook is hiding.