Very little language learning happening, just small bits of German from time to time. I am overworked. Today was my "weekend" after more than 60 hours in the five days before that. And now four more days before me. The last weekend work days here were really good in the sense of making me feel much less sad about leaving
Regular schedule will be a relief now. And will allow me to work more on my languages.
I see more and more tempting job offers in German, and one or two in Italian keeps appearing on the job hunting servers. Really, why is the francophone part of the Switzerland the hardest to get the needed category of job in? I could get one of the great jobs next year, if only I get my German to solid C1!!!
1.I've decided to try once again Italki even for conversation practice. To improve languages, and also to get to speak about more varied stuff more regularily. It is hard to find non-work friends as an adult with horrible work hours. I am of course signing up for the normally expensive writing teacher, I'll try her out. But I am looking for some cheap tutors too. Just to get excuses to speak, and regular contact with my advanced langauges, Italian, and "advanced" German. I've signed up with the now used email adress. And I am immediately second guessing my decision
-the searching mechanism still sucks. Enormously. The labels are mostly missing what I want, such as "advanced". I also need to do a personal second filter based on the generic profiles. I already have a sort of list of keywords, that really turn me off.
-a sort of a "lie" in the price filter. It searches based on price, including the sample lesson price. So, it includes mostly people that are actually above my desired limit
-a lot of spam. I need to look into turning it off. Italki is really sending a lot of advertisements and some of them are "hilarious". Such as finding a tutor that should "really suit my needs". Yeah, sure. A lady, that describes herself as specialising in beginners, and who prepares for the Duolingo language exam.
Did she pay for the advertisement? Or do their searches tracking cookies just suck?
Well, I found one tutor under ten francs per hour, who looks ok. No grammar bashing, she simply doesn't teach it, because she is not a professional teacher. She says she corrects speaking and writing. And she doesn't sound dumb in her video, or as if she expected me to be dumb. She clearly says she expects people to learn outside of her lessons, good.
I'll try her. If she is not good, then I'll move on to some under 15. and so on.
Btw the teacher I had been excited about last year, before I gave up due to horrible work hours? No longer there, doesn't exist on Italki any longer. I found nobody else teaching medical German
2.Regular writing is a must. I am sooooo frozen, whenever I need to write anything. Even scared, perhaps due to some stupid perfectionism and fearing my text will suck anyways. So untypical of me!
3.Regular reading and tv shows. I'd recently given up, due to lack of time, and the tv time being shared with husband. And a few desires to connect a bit with my Czech part, not just my European part.
I've remembered, that I used to read like one book in French per week (or half a long one per week), during most of the B2-C2 progress time. And I watched hundreds of hours of tv shows. And I have an SC to complete.
So, I need to start reading one TL book (German/Italian) a week. Starting next week.4.During the 6WC and AI6WC discussion, there was the idea that too advanced people could participate in the 6WC, just only in the total learning part, not the specific target language part. Sounds awesome. I can sigh up for the May one! Just need to sign up with something I don't intend to study. Perhaps Klingon? Or Czech? Since I won't log in a single minute, it doesn't matter.