This morning, I got some vocabulary help from mein Deutscher in Ireland. (He’s the one who bought me the ticket to Dublin for New Year’s…nothing like a little f2f Deutsch practice.) It was good to have a native speaker explain some things to me. It really made me see how this might’ve been easier if I’d had a tutor or if I’d taken it in a class. My progress might have been slower, but my retention would have been higher. I hope that this stuff starts to gel with him.