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 | 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...
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