by andrew | Jun 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
I hated these at first. There are a million of them and they seem so hard to distinguish: davon, dafür, darüber, damit, danach, dazu, dabei, dadurch, and on and on and on oh lord. I confused them constantly, I didn’t even really understand what they were for, I...
by andrew | Jun 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Deutschlandlabor is a TV series whose title literally means “Germany Laboratory” (Deutschland means “Germany” and “Labor” means “laboratory”). It’s put out by the Goethe Institute; from Wikipedia: The...
by andrew | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hi guys, I’m going to share with you today a resource I’ve been using to learn German for a couple of months and which I really enjoy: Slow German. It’s a (free) podcast by Annik Rubens. She’s a German journalist from Munich. What she does is...
by andrew | Aug 19, 2016 | Free Tools and Resources Reviews, General Language Learning, German, Language Learning Resources and Tools
Anki vs Memrise People have bugged me about Memrise for years now and, although I’ve used it a fair bit, I’d never gotten around to writing a proper review of it, so I thought I would by comparing it with its obvious rival and answering a question many...
by andrew | Aug 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
The tool in question is ReadLang, it works with any website in a variety of languages, and makes the process of learning new words from online text much easier than it was before, saving you massive amounts of time and effort. You click the word you don’t know,...
by andrew | Feb 14, 2016 | General Language Learning
I just wanted to quickly talk today about a common misconception I see amongst beginning language learners, and that is that native speakers make good teachers of their own language. Imagine trying to teach someone English (or whatever your native language is). See...
by andrew | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve been wanting to write about the culture in other countries for a while now but wanted to wait until I actually started traveling to do so. I’m in Spain at the moment and have had just a ton of observations and interesting little insights into Spanish...
by andrew | Apr 21, 2015 | Product Reviews, Uncategorized
The worst thing that can happen to you, and it happens to thousands of newbie language-learners every year (I’ve met several of them), is that you just don’t know how to start off so maybe you try this, that, and the other random method or resource and, of...
by andrew | Feb 15, 2015 | General Language Learning, German, Product Reviews
As I’m fond of saying: You learn to speak a language by trying to speak it, poorly at first. What this means is that you learn by making mistakes which are then corrected, the corrections being where the actual learning takes place. Previously, I had...
by andrew | Feb 8, 2015 | General Language Learning, German, Product Reviews
I’ve tried six different tutors at this point (5 professional, 1 “community” tutor which is just someone who doesn’t teach the language as their day job and does online tutoring on the side), kept four of them (the first pro was flat out bad,...
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