Signed up for German at my local community college. It’s a non-credit German Discussion course. I’m hoping this will help solidify my skills to something that can be lined up to an actual German class level.
It really seems like Community College is one of the best opportunities for learning language. Check your local community college for summer semester (or fall semester if you wanna plan ahead a bit).
Actual self study has very much slowed down. It’s harder to be motivated now that I have no trips planned. I joke with my friends that I need to spend money on a German vacation to motivate myself again lol.
I still do Anki each day but my Grammatik aktiv work has slowed considerably.
I will say that I’ve upgraded my level of effort on Anki cards. I now consider myself at the level where all verbs must be checked with infinitive, 3rd person present, 3rd person past, and 3rd person past perfect (lassen, lässt, ließ, hat gelassen). That has increased my error rate dramatically and wore me out a bit. But I don’t think that I’ve worked as hard as before yet, even if I’m still studying each day.
My overall focus is to get my speaking up even if I’m going to be stuck at A2 a while longer. I know my speaking is lagging behind and I’m willing to put effort and focus on this problem rather than continuing to my B1 stuff.
I do have enough understanding that I’m beginning to enjoy German VTubers. But it’s not a complete understanding of what they say yet… More like I get the overall gist and only with ample hints (exaggerated cartoon faces, meme images and other such context clues). I’m unable to just understand the native level German on its own / isolated.
Signed up for German at my local community college. It’s a non-credit German Discussion course. I’m hoping this will help solidify my skills to something that can be lined up to an actual German class level.
It really seems like Community College is one of the best opportunities for learning language. Check your local community college for summer semester (or fall semester if you wanna plan ahead a bit).
Actual self study has very much slowed down. It’s harder to be motivated now that I have no trips planned. I joke with my friends that I need to spend money on a German vacation to motivate myself again lol.
I still do Anki each day but my Grammatik aktiv work has slowed considerably.
I will say that I’ve upgraded my level of effort on Anki cards. I now consider myself at the level where all verbs must be checked with infinitive, 3rd person present, 3rd person past, and 3rd person past perfect (lassen, lässt, ließ, hat gelassen). That has increased my error rate dramatically and wore me out a bit. But I don’t think that I’ve worked as hard as before yet, even if I’m still studying each day.
My overall focus is to get my speaking up even if I’m going to be stuck at A2 a while longer. I know my speaking is lagging behind and I’m willing to put effort and focus on this problem rather than continuing to my B1 stuff.
I do have enough understanding that I’m beginning to enjoy German VTubers. But it’s not a complete understanding of what they say yet… More like I get the overall gist and only with ample hints (exaggerated cartoon faces, meme images and other such context clues). I’m unable to just understand the native level German on its own / isolated.