Learning German

[jackjanderson]

I was posted to various places in Europe when I was in the RAF and I picked up a smattering of lots of languages - I've got a little French, Spanish, German, Italian and at one point even a little Polish but I can't remember any of that any more.

lucymorningstar introduced me to a website called Duolingo which she's started using because she wanted to learn German. After some practicing of my various language skills and what I remember of them, I've decided to join in as well.

I've signed up for the website (https://www.duolingo.com/JackJAnderson), I've downloaded the app. I've found my old German dictionary and I've got two notebooks (one for vocabulary and one for grammar) and pens for colour coding (masculine, feminine, neuter). Lucy is laughing at me because she's literally just using the website but I know how I learn so lets see how this goes.

Wünsch mir Gluck?

Comments

[catness]

Good luck! I used to love Duolingo, it's a fun way to learn a language. But upon completing the skills tree (I had completed two trees - German and Swedish) there's not really anything to do, because it forces you to repeat the same lessons ad infinitum, which is really boring and tedious. And it leaves you still very far from being fluent... one has to move on, to more advanced studies, but so far I haven't found anything as fun as Duolingo. :(

Recently the devs have revamped the site and added more exercises, but apparently it's just more basic, repetitive stuff.

I think you'll be fine though, if you treat the learning so seriously, with the notebooks and all... at least it gives you the base, and then you can continue with the textbooks or something. They do provide some grammar info, btw, at least in the web version (not in the mobile app), but they don't really "teach" it, you have to absorb the rules from the sample sentences.