Thanks to all the people here and for all the encourging words I went and tried again to have a chat in my target language and it went well! :)
Thanks to all the people here and for all the encourging words I went and tried again to have a chat in my target language and it went well! :)
I managed to pick up a crime novel off a free pile this week. I’m not able to read it outright, but the percentage of the prose I’m getting is about 60-80%. That’s a huge win for me.
In more formal practice I’m nearing the end of translating book 95 of Die Drei ??? Kids - Geheime Zeichen (secret signs). I’m thinking about getting another one of those since the vocabulary level and prose difficulty are about right for me at this point.
I did manged to order food a few times during the week entirely in German, though I bailed when trying to describe how much of a cheese wheel I wanted to purchase.
Wow that’s pretty amazing, you seem to be pretty far in your language learning journey!
Purchasing cheese can get pretty stressful if it’s anything like here at the farmer markets lol.
Thank you. It’s helping that I’m more immersed in the language than ever before. Actually living in Germany makes it much easier to start learning, and re-learning, the language. I’m around Berlin, so English is quite pervasive, but I do try to erste Deutsch in conversations.
That’s the way to go. I mean sometimes it’s nice that you have the option to use English if you really feel like it’s a bit much at times. I take advantage of this as well in Vienna. Sometimes I’m just too tired to form a German sentence.
But yeah I also try to communicate in German as much as possible to get comfortable with the language :)