About This Learning German Blog
Willkomen. I just moved to Austria to learn German. In high school and college I took a few German classes, but honestly I've forgotten most of it and at this point my ability is rock-bottom pathetic.
So my goal now is to be fluent in German by February 2009. Follow my progress, and you might end up learning German too.
How's this blog gonna work? Here's how it's not gonna work. I'm not just going to list a bunch of words and tell you to memorize them by Monday.
Instead, I am going to bring you intimately into the process of language learning, as it happens to me. That means, for example, that I'm only going to blog about the new vocabulary words that I think are cool. I'll tell you all about how I found them and why I think they're cool.
Now, of course, if you limit your German learning to this blog and only learn the German words that I think are cool, then it's a safe bet you'll end up speaking a pretty strange version of German.
Perhaps even stranger than Austrian.
But that's not the point. The point is, you're not here for the Absolute Source of German Instruction. Rather, you're gonna read this blog for texture, nuance, inspiration, motivation and, sure, a boatload of helpful resources for German students that I will tend to constantly link out to, like essential German modal verbs and their conjugations, for example.
But remember: this isn't a German textbook. It's a blog about learning German.
Which means that even more clutch than the resources I link to are the comments I make about those resources (cool vs uncool), and those resources will be newspaper articles, teevee shows, Youtube videos, new German-language social networking websites, personal anecdotes about living in Austria and notes about Austrian, Swiss and German culture - anything that's mildly interesting and also promotes German learning.
Even travel. I'll definitely post about travel to Austria, Germany and Switzerland, whether it's news about cheap flights to Europe or tips on how to stretch the Euro or Frank on a budget, top 10 beaches in Switzerland (just kidding - or am I?), etc. Because fundamental to language learning is exposure to native speakers, so it just wouldn't be right not to share with you my best advice on traveling to German speaking countries. Right?
Okay, all you have to do now is subscribe to my blog for free, sit back and relax. You'll be speaking German in no time.
Because if you Subscribe to my blog now for free, then you'll be privy to a torrent of helpful and amazing German Learning Blogging coming your way, right away.
So Subscribe now. It's FREE!
So my goal now is to be fluent in German by February 2009. Follow my progress, and you might end up learning German too.
How's this blog gonna work? Here's how it's not gonna work. I'm not just going to list a bunch of words and tell you to memorize them by Monday.
Instead, I am going to bring you intimately into the process of language learning, as it happens to me. That means, for example, that I'm only going to blog about the new vocabulary words that I think are cool. I'll tell you all about how I found them and why I think they're cool.
Now, of course, if you limit your German learning to this blog and only learn the German words that I think are cool, then it's a safe bet you'll end up speaking a pretty strange version of German.
Perhaps even stranger than Austrian.
But that's not the point. The point is, you're not here for the Absolute Source of German Instruction. Rather, you're gonna read this blog for texture, nuance, inspiration, motivation and, sure, a boatload of helpful resources for German students that I will tend to constantly link out to, like essential German modal verbs and their conjugations, for example.
But remember: this isn't a German textbook. It's a blog about learning German.
Which means that even more clutch than the resources I link to are the comments I make about those resources (cool vs uncool), and those resources will be newspaper articles, teevee shows, Youtube videos, new German-language social networking websites, personal anecdotes about living in Austria and notes about Austrian, Swiss and German culture - anything that's mildly interesting and also promotes German learning.
Even travel. I'll definitely post about travel to Austria, Germany and Switzerland, whether it's news about cheap flights to Europe or tips on how to stretch the Euro or Frank on a budget, top 10 beaches in Switzerland (just kidding - or am I?), etc. Because fundamental to language learning is exposure to native speakers, so it just wouldn't be right not to share with you my best advice on traveling to German speaking countries. Right?
Okay, all you have to do now is subscribe to my blog for free, sit back and relax. You'll be speaking German in no time.
Because if you Subscribe to my blog now for free, then you'll be privy to a torrent of helpful and amazing German Learning Blogging coming your way, right away.
So Subscribe now. It's FREE!
Posted by Will at
4:25 PM
1 Comments:
Hey, this is just what I need! I've always wanted to learn German, and I'm applying to grad school in creative writing and really want to take some German when (if) I get in. So I will be following this closely. Thanks!
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