reineke wrote:I now see that you "cheated" with Anki & German. Et tu, Brutus? Brute? I enjoyed Breaking Bad in Br. Portuguese. Not so much in Spanish. The French version was OK, I think. Hello and good luck.
Cheated? I did Anki for a year and got a basic vocabulary before switching to native materials; or actually I switched to native materials fairly quickly (first film in a cinema after four months), but did Anki for a year before stopping.
I've been using Anki for Spanish for the last nine months. So far I've got about 2200 words at various stages of learning (essentially the word lists from my A1 textbook). I find it useful and intend to keep using it while I start to access native materials.
I started reading the first Harry Potter book "Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal" yesterday on my Kindle with a pop-up dictionary. God it's hard. Still I remember my first 200 page German book took about a month to read, but this seems much harder.
And simultaneously I started reading Greg Egan's Quarantäne in German. This fulfills one of my earlier goals, which was to get to a level of German where I could learn simply by buying cheap secondhand paperbacks with lurid covers in flea-markets around Berlin.
I am also working through Season 3 of Peppa Pig in Spanish without subtitles (a show my daughter loved when she was two). My understanding is pretty limited, mostly words, not sentences, but it's good to just hear the language spoken.
For German I am currently watching the second season of Jessica Jones on Netflix.