Well, 10-hours of actively attacking German have now passed. In short, I’m happy with my progress up until now and have motivation and momentum coming out of my proverbial.
You may be asking though: What have I accomplished? Where have I failed? …And how have I attempted it? Click here to read more.. »
A little bit delayed in posting this, but the 5-hour mark in my German quest is up.
In these 5-hours of active study I believe I have covered a large amount of basic grammar and have amassed a strong foundation of vocabulary through cognates with English. I have been working a lot on pronunciation Click here to read more.. »
Had a silly idea… document a self-assessment after set intervals of study; 1-hour, 5-hours, 10-hours and so on.
So, after 1-hour of study what have I achieved? A rough assessment would be: Click here to read more.. »
As ever it’s a very sporadic update… Apologies.
Work and family keep me busy and I’m never able to post as often as I like. I’m going to attempt to keep a language log from now on as I want to document my progress somewhat.
While I use Korean daily I have limited motivation to write about my Korean adventure as the milestones are few and far between these days. I do plan on sitting the TOPIK exam later this year and will review that when the time comes, but for now I have a more interesting challenge. Click here to read more.. »
Just a short note on confidence builders in the last week.
I’ve been chatting a little with Koreans on several sites (mostly sharedtalk; no link because I don’t really like the site) recently to try to add variety to how I approach some pretty typical topics of an intermediate nature; nothing overly complicated. Things like lifestyles, family, interests, travel, etc. Stuff that you will talk about with people all the time… nice conversation starters, those kind of things.
Anyway, what’s the confidence aspect? Click here to read more.. »
