Shortly following that I signed up to the grammar short course by German with Laura to sort out my Grammar after watching one of her videos on youtube. July 27, 2021, I signed up to Germanpod for a one year subscription (but cancelled after about a month).I got held up a bit on books 4 and 7 if I remember correctly, then again at 10 (as there was a big jump in difficulty to each of these), but this really improved my vocabulary too. From there for the next few months I mainly just read through Andre Klein's series of Dino Learns Deutsch books.Started doing exercises and making Anki cards on grammar, but didn't really find this working, so stopped. Week 13, or so I felt like my grammar was starting to hold me back, started searching around a bunch of websites, eventually settled on a book.Read Münchhausers Abenteuer ( A1 level version) from about week 10 to 13. That was a lot of fun, It's a very comical book!.Started reading geregs diary in about week 8.About 2 months in I had a lull and was finding it hard to get motivated to study, so I tried to find a few German bands and songs that I liked, and studied lyrics for a while, that was helpful.Spending 15 mins per night on this it took me about three weeks to get through it. This was super fun and it was great to feel like I was ‘reading' in german. The first book I read was Heidi at A1 level. At about the one month mark, I started trying to do some reading in German.But this didn't last long, because I found it pretty unmotivating, and also the contexts meant nothing to me. About same time as German language exchange started, I started the 4000 most common German words Anki deck, 3 new cards per day.And quickly learnt how to turn my language exchange recordings into flaschards efficiently, and this gave me a really big learning boost, and I kept it going pretty consistently for almost 20 weeks. After a couple of weeks, I set up a language exchange on.This was ok, but I only did it for a few days then ran out of steam with this approach. I liked germanpod because I found out a way to download the audio from the website and make flashcards out of them. For the first couple of weeks after this I played around with a few different websites, then ended up getting a low level subscription to germanpod and used it for ‘sentence mining'.I typed these words out, translated each word using Google sheets using a translation formula, then used a complex method of multiple Anki decks (totally unnecessary in hindsight!) to try to learn these 300 words. Which is five pages of words that Jack suggests provide the keys to quick communication in a new language. My first point of call was Jack Chakerian's ‘Prolist'.I started my German learning in a more serious way in mid 2020, shortly after covid lockdown here in Melbourne stated.20 years old, listened though about 30 Pimsleur German audio tapes.18 years old, went to Germany and learnt a few sentences like ‘One beer please' and ‘How do you say … in German.'.From this, as an adult, I could still remember how to count to about 20, say my name, and say where I come from. The main point of this post is to give a bit of background to the study that I did prior to the challenge starting. This is a short article that details the German learning that I did prior to starting the beginner to fluent German challenge.
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