Study German at least 5 minutes every day

Well, after a good solid year of neglect, I’ve decided to pick up my German studies once again. This time I have the added inspiration of a potential trip to Switzerland next year, so maybe I’ll do better. I’ve also found a chatroom where I can actually interact with people, thus providing more motivation. The past 3 days have been good, but I know I always tend to start strong (obsessively?) with my goals then fizzle out :( Unfortunately, due to the long time I’ve neglected my German, I have to re-learn all my adjective endings, irregular conjugations, etc. Not to mention all the vocab I’ve forgotten. Ah, well, learning is fun, and perseverance will allow me to reach my goal :)

I spent about 20 minutes on German last night before I went to bed. I listened to a podcast (in German) about French loan words and (I think) different dialects that have a heavy French influence. It was so interesting, especially since I took two years of French in high school. It was fun hearing a recording of the same thing my mind does all the time (mixing French and German, that is).

I worked a little on passive yesterday. I can’t really reproduce it comfortably yet, but I can understand it. I think I spent about 30 min.

I studied twice my goal yesterday! It was mostly just listening to a podcast in German, but at least I had some contact with the langauge for a change.

I thought putting such a small goal would make this relatively easy, but I was wrong. What with Hebrew to study and a sorts of reading for my other classes, I’ve already gotten in the bad habit of pushing this goal off to the side. I guess maybe I’d better go study some German right now, since I’m thinking about it :)