If you’re going to mooch a book from BookMooch for foreign language learning purposes, it would behoove you to figure out exactly what you’re mooching beforehand. I know; I learned the hard way.
A month or two ago, I was skimming what was available on BookMooch that was 1) in German and 2) available from users [...]
German
Nicholas Sparks? Yuck!
The Lives of Others
One of the things I did in between studying and writing was watch the movie Das Leben der Anderen (released with English subtitles as The Lives of Others). While such a statement from me is problematic due to how few movies I watch, I’ll say it anyway: it was one of the best movies I’ve [...]
You’re never “done” with a foreign language.
A typical language learner come evening time…
Something made me smile a few days ago. I mentioned to my mom that I’m interested in perhaps learning some Russian. She responded, “But you haven’t finished with German yet!”
No, I’m not, nor will I ever be!
I think a lot of people who have never really studied a [...]
A major mistake I made in learning German: I didn’t listen.
As I often word it when people ask me how long I’ve been learning German: “I’ve been learning it off and on for quite a few years now.”
In learning German, I think I’ve come to learn how to learn languages – or at least started to learn how. One of the major points I stupidly [...]
