Just back from a two-week holiday in Sicily. I was surprised that even my very limited Spanish was helpful at times for understanding Italian. A nice little bonus!
GermanI was able to get very little reading done during the trip (or even TV watching), but I did manage to finally finish my 1980s German-translation of the Australian scifi novel
Quarantäne by Greg Egan. I realized after finishing it that it's the first book I have read in German since February, and only the second this year. Shame on me!
I have now started a new book by Wolfgang Bauer,
Bruchzone, which is a collection of essays he's written as a reporter in various conflict zones for
die Zeit over the last ten years. The German publisher Suhrkamp makes beautiful not fiction works.
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I am really liked his earlier reportage,
Über das Meer, which followed a Syrian man's attempt to find refuge in Europe during the crisis in 2015.
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Check out his books here:
https://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/wolfgan ... tlichungenI have also started listening to the second book in the Expanse series
Calibans Krieg. I have trouble at time following everything that is said but it's certainly useful practice. Heyne is the publisher to checkout if you want scifi in German.
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In addition I watched 20 German "films" (=Netflix series) in September.
Berlin Babylon has just become available here on ARD so I might have a look at the series soon.
Spanish For Spanish I continue to use two Anki decks, which take me about 45-60 minutes per day. The first is just words/expressions, for which I have just passed the 2500 mark; and a second deck composed for sentences from the first Harry Potter book. So far I have worked through the first chapter. I finding it really helpful and very satisfying. Now that I am back I'll start adding new sentences; before the holiday I was adding 20-25/day. This takes a little while as I also add unknown words to the first deck.
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