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Hi everyone I hope your day is going well so yay time for a new day log!

Icelandic
Did have of Pimsleurs Icelandic lesson 5 but had to stop because it was information overload going to try it again soon.
Did two lessons in chapter 2 of mangolanguages in Icelandic.
Forced myself through lesson 5 of Pimsleur and will be listening again on the way to work.

German
Maintaining what I’ve learned
Learning 3 new skills
Took a progress quiz and got 76% of the lesson known on it (even though I didn’t miss any questions)

Howdy howdy all! Today is an interesting day as I'm gonna be stuck on duolingo for a hot minute haha.

German
Working on 3 new skills on duolingo.
Maintaining what I have learned so far.

Icelandic
Studying how to write the words I am learning from my complete Icelandic book.
Worked on Lesson 5 of Pimsleurs Icelandic course again.

Woooow I'm getting started really late today. Had a busy morning with lots of errands. So far today what have I done with my language stuff!

German
Today I read some poems out loud to someone out of my where the sidewalk ends in German.
Working on my German Duolingo tree have 3 more lessons before I've completed the full tree.
Looking at iitalki to see about taking a placement test in German that will be official.
Watched German kid shows nad picked up a lot of words.

Icelandic
Listened to songs in Icelandic on my trip.

Pegasusangel wrote:Watched German kid shows nad picked up a lot of words.

I'm curious which ones. Also, are you looking for recommendations there?

golyplot wrote:I'm curious which ones. Also, are you looking for recommendations there?

Kids shows that were translated into German mostly so like peppa pig and things. I also found a playlist of German kids songs I listened to as well. If you have any good German show recommendations I would love to hear them!

I've been a lazy butt all day haha so I'm just in the mood to not do much of anything. However I will log what I do today.

German
Working on Duolingo tree in hopes that tonight I can take the test and get the completed owl.
Also just watching German videos on youtube and understanding so much more then I used to.
Had someone compliment me on how fluently I read German today as well.
I took a progress quiz on duolingo again and got a 4.5 on it which means I've mastered 90% of the tree I was super surprised!

Pegasusangel wrote:Kids shows that were translated into German mostly so like peppa pig and things. I also found a playlist of German kids songs I listened to as well. If you have any good German show recommendations I would love to hear them!

Oh, I thought you meant actual German kid's shows. There's actually a lot of them available online. For example, you can watch every episode of Tiere bis unters Dach online. (The episodes are also on Youtube, but the ones on kindernetz.de are higher quality.)

The great thing about German is that a lot of German public broadcasting is available free online. Just go to the websites of Das Erste or ZDF and check them out. Some shows are geoblocked, but a lot aren't. I'd recommend looking what aired the previous Saturday and Sunday mornings, since that's when they usually put on their kids shows.

For example, this weekend on Das Erste, in addition to TbuD, they aired Anna und die Haustiere (a nature documentary series) and Die Pfefferkörner, a long running kid detective series.

Awesome Golyplot more stuff to watch to learn and practice German with! Thank you so much for all the suggestions you have given me thus far you are awesome!!!

New day new sort of log. Been pretty busy.

German
Read more of "Wo der gehweg endet" and was doing a lot better at understanding words without too much thought.
i worked on the 50 mistakes I have had on duolingo in German in the past month and cleared all of those out quickly.
My sister had a song that she found a long time ago called "Spring Nicht (Jump Not)" and after it was over I gave her the literal translation of the song. Since they released an English version she told me how close my translation was to that. So that was cool.

One other show worth checking out is In Your Dreams: Sommer deines Lebens. It's a comedy series about two Australian teens who spend the summer living in a German castle.

Interestingly, the show was an Australian-German coproduction and was filmed in English but dubbed in German for the German market. So unfortunately, that means the dialog doesn't match the mouth movements, which is a bit distracting sometimes. But I still recommend it - it's a pretty funny show.

Hoi again everyone! Had quite the day and am now back at work but welcome to my language log so far today!

Icelandic
Listened to lesson 6 of Pimsleurs Icelandic course.
Listened to some kids songs in Icelandic.

German
Worked on some skills in duolingo. Trying to get skills slowly to gold before I do the last two skills on my computer.
Read out loud one of the German books I got today (The giving tree) and understood mostly all of it which was awesome!
Also read some of The Lorax in German as well.
Listened to lesson 23 of Pimsleurs German 1 course.