WalkingAlone13 wrote:Hey Jimjam, I just wanted to say that it is great to see a friendly face on the 4k frequency list leaderboards on Memrise! It looks like two weeks in a row within top ten, pretty impressive feat. I hope things are going a bit better for you now.
Viel Erfolg!
Thanks for the message! I haven't really been done too much language study in the past few months but recently I've been getting back into German. I miss both the language and the country a fair bit which had been good motivation to try and get myself back on track with it. I haven't done too much so far, just starting back up with Memrise doing 25 words a day from the 4K list. I did miss some days but I've still been enjoying it surprisingly. I've also been trying to get assimil German with ease going again. I did a very quick run through all of the lessons I've already done (some like 3 times since I just keep stopping and starting the course) and now I'm up to lesson 45. This was where I was up to before I went to Germany. Other than that I haven't done too much with grammar except revising some stuff yesterday. This time I've decided to try a different approach once I've finished with assimil and gone through some more of the core grammar. I ordered a bunch of DVDs from amazon.de such as the complete true blood series, avatar the last airbender, some seasons of the Simpsons, the LOTR and Hobbit series', and I also have the Stromberg box set. I also have a number of German novels so all up I have enough, or almost enough, to do a personal super challenge. I've read about how successful others have been with this approach and I have noticed it for myself on a much smaller scale. I'm hoping that since it's a much more relaxed and entertaining approach, that it will hold my attention easier and I will be able to stick with it for longer. I did test the waters last night by watching an episode of Deutschland 83 which went about as well as I expected (not very
) but I didn't mind that my comprehension was so low. I was extremely tired and my focus waned towards the end of the episode but I enjoyed listening to the German and picking out things I can understand. When all of my DVDs arrive, hopefully in the next few days, I'll probably start by watching the Simpsons as I can already remember most of the episodes and dialogue fairly well in English so my German comprehension should be much higher.
I just remembered what gave me the excitement and determination to follow this new approach; reading Sillygoose1's logs! I went back and read through all of them from the old forum and damn was it motivating! If they can get multiple languages to such a high level of comprehension with a predominately input based method then I should, in theory, be able to do it with only 1 language! I place all blame on them
I apologise WalkingAlone as this was meant to just be a reply to you but it ended up being a full update
I haven't wanted to update my log until I was sure I was going to actually stick to my learning as I've already posted way too many false starts on here but once I started replying to you, I couldn't stop myself. I enjoy having a place to keep track of all my attempts so I can see the successes in the middle of them all.
I'm just going to end it here before I keep on going, and believe me I will haha
