Humerusthings log: German & French Log through Assimil 2024

[humerusthings]

German
- 12th Feb - had another italki class, slowly progressing through the new interactive textbook! love the new vocab/conversation/interaction that an italki class invariably brings
- plugging my way slowly through bussu, at chapter 16/30 but keep on skipping ahead randomly to whatever i feel like learning that day
today included pets, buying milk, lol indeed important topics

Japanese
- so i reccently got into final fantasy 14 and joined a japanese server, so the thought of learning japanese popped into my mind! never really -needed- to learn it before this but literally now i DO.
- started learning very basic hiragana on busuu

[humerusthings]

German
- So today I did the Bussu A1 level test (on a long bus ride home) and was pleasantly surprised that I passed! i know it's not actually equivalent to an A1 test but it was still a nice surprise haha. got C (76%) and have a lovely cert that i downloaded. with regards to the actual bussu course, i'm about 70% of the way through it, so hoping to get an A one day!
- Italki - currently have done 4 german lessons in total with this tutor, working our way through an interactive textbook
- listened to half a coffee break german s1 podcast on directions

Slowlyyy getting there with the aim of taking the german A1 test someday... anyone has done it and knows how many months one would need to study? not intensively but perhaps like... an hour a day, some days 30mins, some days 0 mins (sigh it's a pipe dream isnt it).

[jeffers]

Slowlyyy getting there with the aim of taking the german A1 test someday... anyone has done it and knows how many months one would need to study? not intensively but perhaps like... an hour a day, some days 30mins, some days 0 mins (sigh it's a pipe dream isnt it).

Numbers vary: one website says 60-90 hours, another 60-100 hours and a third says 100-150 hours to go from zero to A1. The lower numbers are probably classroom time, without counting homework and additional practice? The problem (or advantage?) for the self-learner is that you are probably not simply preparing for a specific exam, so it would likely take longer studying on your own. Or you could do it in less time if your only goal was to scrape a pass on the exam.