|
 |
CheChe’s Attempts at German | ||
Tags: German | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| CheChe Groupie United States Joined 3756 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 25 of 53 07 November 2014 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
|
So what did I get done this week?
Assimil: I finished lessson 29 last night and I'll do 30 tonight. Duolingo: I only made it through the Travel skills, but what that was my weekly goal and I made it :) Essential German: I made it through Lesson 6 which was about more conjugations of verbs in present tense. Also I discovered playing Criminal Case(Facebook Game) in German. I forgot from which person I heard about it. It is really addicting. Tons of vocab I don't know, so I tend to use google translate to give me a good idea of what they are saying or what I need to be looking for. Its fun to put the language to an actual use and I can tell that I am looking up less words each time a play it. Since it is a hidden object game, I wished they put "the" in front of the words so I would get gender more ingrained. Also starting to listen to German radio on spotify and finding a couple singers a like. Though I don't understand much at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CheChe Groupie United States Joined 3756 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 26 of 53 08 November 2014 at 4:31am | IP Logged |
|
And now I am sad, because in order to get to case two in Criminal Case, I need three
friends playing with me :( Maybe its time I look at that one children's book I have downloaded. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CheChe Groupie United States Joined 3756 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 27 of 53 15 November 2014 at 4:15am | IP Logged |
|
Update!
Assimil: Just finished up lesson 37. These lessons are definitely getting longer. Lesson 31 was interesting this week as I had me memorize two jokes. Duolingo: Had fun learning colors in German. The other lessons where Formal You and starting to go through the occupations. Essential German: Finished lesson seven about the accusative case and started lesson eight about the dative case. As criminal case was fun to do, I started to look for more native materials to study with as well. Started slowly trying to read Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivfuehre by Michael Ende (young children chapter book). The going is really slow as I look up most words in the dictionary, so I am still on page 1. At least I am close to the bottom :). Also I took a look at FluentU as a way to possibly watch some videos in German. I don't really like their learn section which quizzes you on the words to get you to know the meaning and had an implementation of srs. But I do like watching the videos on their as they have both English and German subtitles on. You can also highlight over the German word and it shows the definition. But there isn't two many videos available for free. (If anybody is reading this studying Japanese, all the videos are available for free in Japanese as that language is in beta.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CheChe Groupie United States Joined 3756 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 28 of 53 15 November 2014 at 4:20am | IP Logged |
|
Also, I keep on meaning to mention my current goal:
To get enough of a basic understanding that I would be able to play Skyrim in German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes  Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 29 of 53 15 November 2014 at 5:16am | IP Logged |
|
I see that you have stuck with doing an Assimil lesson a day for more than a month now. Congrats! Very nice progress and good job on having plodded on.
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CheChe Groupie United States Joined 3756 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 30 of 53 15 November 2014 at 6:43am | IP Logged |
|
Thanks Gemuse :)
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| csidler Diglot Pro Member Australia chadsidler.com Joined 4613 days ago 51 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 53 20 November 2014 at 1:26am | IP Logged |
|
CheChe how about you check out the 1000 word course on Memrise?
1000 Words of Elementary German 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CheChe Groupie United States Joined 3756 days ago 41 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 32 of 53 22 November 2014 at 9:36pm | IP Logged |
|
A little late this week as yesterday was my husband's birthday and I spent the day
cooking or at that party. Probably should look at the memrise course as it would be helpful, but I am doing enough as is and feeling a little burned out so I am going back to just doing assimil and duolingo. Assimil: Up to lesson 44 now. Next lesson I am supposed to start the active wave as well. Duolingo: Learned about comparisons and qualifiers. Edited by CheChe on 29 November 2014 at 2:58am 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
