Like ein Dumkopf I signed up for Deutsch II at the last minute. First class was last week. I don’t know why I’m doing this. The game of it, maybe? Self abuse? Some stupid dream of traveling to Deutschophone countries and sweet-talking everyone I meet? I don’t get it. I took the first course last …
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Endlich
Took my Deutsch I final this morning. I don’t believe I did well. Probably 50%. It was oral with another student over Zoom. We each were given separate facts about a fictitious person that we had to ask questions about, and we had to answer in full sentences im Deutsch. My vocabulary is bad, because …
Der Dummkopf – The Fool
This first week of German class has not gone easily. I’ve never done distance learning, so I’m climbing uphill to figure out these learning management systems. The first assignment found me misreading the actual task, and I kept getting the answers wrong; I got distracted with learning the laptop’s Alt-Gr keys (so I can do …
Anfange!
Yay! My German class is now beginning! Ah fick! Meine Duetsch klasse beginnt. Ich jetzt muss lerne.
Streakhalten
Speaking of daily slogs, at some point I will give up this continuous streak on #Duolingo (I’m “learning” #German). I’m currently at 447 days of streak, which sounds impressive, but I’ve burned up many streak repair “tokens” to maintain that (namely, when sick, or traveling, or whatever). Really, this Duolingo streak thing feels like a …