here's my approach so far:
0. have set some language priorities for first three months, and have a 12 month goal1. listen to 1 episode of pimsleur in the morning first thing, while walking to work (these are pretty slow with limited vocabulary but find them good for tuning your ear to stuff)2. jot down any new vocabulary in notes while walking (transfer into anki later)3. if it's raining, listen to coffee break german on the bus instead4. do some self talk while in e.g. shower, on bike etc5. ask partner questions (using german only, to extent possible... not always possible obv) 6. do occassional anki session (max 35 cards per day) when have some downtime at night7. look up things when (if) I think of them8. maintain a diary of words, sentences I've made up, and things I've done during the day etc (this is really basic but just about getting me thinking/narrating in the language)
basically a mix of structured learning and organic (as-and-when things come to me) learning. only scribbling this down for my posterity and in case it helps anyone else
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
that all sounds like... a lot, but most important thing for me is trying to at least touch the language every day. some days I will do a couple of hours of learning (exhausting), others it will only be the pimsleur. and I don't do the pimsleur on the weekends, so the learning activity is a little lighter then (mostly just annoying partner w/questions)
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
Was ist dein deutsches Llieblingswort ?
― ||||||||, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
geil
schornsteinfeger
sowieso
jeweilig
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
find the schlechteste those with hard to pronounce Rs (lehrern). also why is squirrel so hard in all languages
― ||||||||, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
genau is the best word
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Monday, 10 February 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
doch
― seandalai, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
Aztekenexpresszuggesellschaftâ SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:06 (three years ago)
â SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:06 (three years ago)
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
quatsch
― seandalai, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
Ehrgeiz
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
âSchmetterlingâ is underrated imo, the word means âlittle thingâ (-ling) that âbats forcefullyâ (Schmetter-)
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
genau def a hall of famer
new one today which is nice: auĂergewĂśhnlich
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
just has a nice rhythm and balance to it, with a satisfying definitive ending
rein theoretisch
― seandalai, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
still enjoying this ish. favourite thing recently are conjunctions that throw the conjugated verb to the end so sentences become this odd parade of unmoored subjects objects times locations with a wee verb popping up at the end to stitch them all together
― ||||||||, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
like.... Du solltest âGruĂ Gottâ sagen wenn du in Ăsterreich bist....... bist my man wyd all the way out there on your own
― ||||||||, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
|||||||| ist ein Threadnichtaufdemlaufendengehaltenhabender.I donât like the guy who coined the phrase, but âLockerungsdränglerâ is a classic German compound imo.
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
still plugging away doing a little everyday - less structured since we entered lockdown, mostly because my days are less structured and if I exercise I tend to do it w/my partner so doing podcast course would be considering kinda..... antisocial
been slacking on the speaking lately tho - need to up that def
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link
been a little difficult to keep the motivation too when there's no potential for a visit to germany on the horizon at least in the short- to medium-term. always found w french that visting france gave my language skills a little turbo boost over any plateaus and so was looking forward to the same from visits to germany this year but........ the rona
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
yeah I've had that problem too. I keep meaning to work on my German because I might possibly want to move to Germany when this is over, but that seems very far off and hard to imagine.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
I just saw this anglicised map of Germany and now I can't stop thinking about it pic.twitter.com/nbpAwPXy13— Marcel Dirsus (@marceldirsus) July 27, 2020
Slot Newswanston!
― L. Prague de Scamp (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 27 July 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure most of those places exist in England.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 27 July 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Son ellos https://t.co/CPTu3mdG06 pic.twitter.com/k3UmzhQBOh— common white girl (@PlanetaTamara) June 27, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 10:25 (one year ago) link
Don't think there's a proper Germany thread bar this one. Making my way through this rn.
https://jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 09:37 (eleven months ago) link
Phantombildzeichner
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:18 (eight months ago) link
Person who sketches identikit portraits (Phantombilder)
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:20 (eight months ago) link