My dear friends, I need your thoughts about how to learn 2 languages together. Your experience, your guesses, and everything you think about this. The reason I ask is that I'm starting to learn Spanish on my own, without a teacher. And my German course is also over and I don't know whether I'll be doing it next year - it depends on far to many ( Read more... )

What do office dwellers do when Internet is down for the whole day ( Read more... )

I've got an amazing present from my "Elephant"! A book by E.T.A. Hoffmann called "Nachtstücke". It's in German and it's said that it's the unadapted edition! That means that it's actually the original text! Adapted text sucks. Now I have another stimulus to do well in German:0) Thank you very much, my Elephant ( Read more... )

My groupmate at German course sent me a link to a video of "why is German so hard to learn". Laughed out loud and even scared Eugene by this:0) But what is described in the video is so alike us in our learning process!
Enjoy (it has English subtitles) http://www.youtube.com/watch

I have 2 different German course books and both of them have CDs to listen to texts. And the content of these discs puzzles me much. The problem is pronunciation. Our teacher told us that "in classic rules" the letter "r" is not pronounced as firmly as it mostly is in Russian and almost Russian pronounce it speaking German. In particular she said ( Read more... )

It turned out that I will not have to learn that impossible to pronounce word meaning hobby in German as they successfully use the English "hobby". Love Germans, thank you guys!:0)

Yesterday I found out that it was no need to be disappointed that there were no links to new NCIS episodes of the 7nth season. Because it's on on Mondays only and not ( Read more... )

And so I returned! The driving was very good despite being caugth in the jams and later in such the rain that I could hardly see the road. And I'm not talking about some mad drivers. Though there were quite a few of them on my route. And I was not stopped by the police, so the "my-first-policeman" experience is still ahead;0) And I must say that's ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my first German lesson. And it was fun:0 ( Read more... )