learn german

I’m up to der siebzehnte Lektion in mein Büch. Es haben dreißig Lektionen.
I hope to finish it by the end of the year. By then I should be able to read at basic level… YAY!

hahahaha! Now I’ll see how good my beginner’s German really is! But my tutor thinks I’m good enough for a trip over there, but now I’m learning “touristy” stuff like ordering food, reading signs, etc.

I went to see a new tutor, and he’s really good. Helped me a lot with my pronunciation, I can’t imagine how I really sound to a native German speaker, LOL.

meeting a new tutor on Monday, need to catch up with my own studies and review since Christmas made me lazy

my tutor was ok… I didn’t like the loose structure, I’ll find another one soon.

seeing my tutor on Saturday. I’m bringing my text so he can see what I’ve been doing so far

Yay! I got ‘em right before Thanksgiving. It’s so much fun when listening… that’s really weird… I’ve never thought listening to language tapes would be fun. I remember when I got Japanese audio for my textbook like 2 yrs ago, it wasn’t fun at all. But then I listened to the Japanese CD again (after I did German, of course)... and… it was fun!!! YAY!!
Honestly, if you’re not having fun when learning something you want to learn, then it’s so much harder to learn. Take a break, do something else, then come back to it.

Oh, I have the usual excuses for taking like 3 weeks to do a 5 page chapter…too tired/pissed/sleepy/waiting for job interview results/video games…blah blah
on to chapter 5!! I ordered the pimsluer tapes used from someone on Amazon, should be here this week.

so I’m on lesson 4 in my book, things are getting a bit more dense… no, that’s not the right word… more COMPLEX! Oh yeah! dieser, dieses, diese… it was confusing at first but honestly I do not care. I wanna gobble up everything!!
gotta get those pimsleur tapes!

gah! I fell behind… I have a cold, um slight cold rather and I’m all stuffy… grrrr, I’ll resume next weekend.
I think I’ll buy the Pimsluer tapes I used to borrow from the library since the catalog says it’s either lost (ie stolen) or someone has it out and it’s way overdue.