by andrew | Jul 28, 2017 | German
Each of the following can mean “to move [house]” in German, depending on where you’re moving from/to: umziehen, ausziehen, wegziehen, and einziehen; and one of them can also mean “to get naked”. Which one of the above should you use for...
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 | 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,...
by andrew | Jan 17, 2015 | General Language Learning, German, Product Reviews
I’m currently doing the iTalki 2015 Language Challenge which is where if you take at least 20 hours of instruction via their tutors then you can win 400 ITC (iTalki Credits, which are used to buy lessons with the tutors on there, with ten of them costing $1US)....
by andrew | Jan 12, 2015 | German, Language Learning Resources and Tools
Ok, I’m going to maintain a list here of all the websites where you can watch German videos (of whatever content: TV shows, news, random YouTube stuff someone created, etc.) online with a strong emphasis on free (if it costs money it’s going to have to be...
by andrew | Jan 5, 2015 | Free Tools and Resources Reviews, German, Language Learning Resources and Tools, Reviews
First post ever! And I think I’ll start it out by sharing something useful that I’m actually qualified to comment on, which is not a whole lot right now since I’ve only been learning German for about two months at this point. One of the first things...
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