#deutschalsfremdsprache

Finally some language aesthetics arrived:

I've been busy with preparation for my exam on Friday!!! 😱😱 That said, I always have time to bake some blueberry oat cookies. 🍪

Hope you all have a lovely day. ☺️

soo it’s not gonna be a useful post for language learners and stuff, I rather want to summarize the progress I made in my German studies. I think it is necessary to look back sometimes: we’re keeping ourselves busy with looking to our goals and focusing on the distance that keeps us apart from these goals - when in reality there is a more positive side we should focus on. Yes, you did some progress too. 

So basically I started learning German back in 2013 in High School - I had like 4 classes a week, or three? nevermind, but I was learning the language until 2016. Then university started, I was focusing on my english studies and I just forgot.... everything. I remembered some words and some phrases, I could introduce myself in German (meaning I could say “Ich heiße Rebeka und Ich wohne in Ungarn” and some other basic sentences), and I remembered the perfekt past tense and maybe the verb conjugations.... but otherwise, complete blur. I still have my high school notes, German grammar books, and it was even surprising to see that I learnt about conjugations of the adjectives, passive voice and future tense, also we learnt the subjunctive form of some verbs like darf, müssen, sollen etc, but I forgot almost everything. I even forgot the fact that I learnt these stuff. 

Throughout my University studies, I had 2 german grammar seminars: one in around 2018, and one last semester. But they did not really add to my knowledge.

In September, 2019, however, I jumped into the middle of it. I started to relearn everything. First it was actually bad, like it felt bed to relearn stuff I remember I knew once. But now... let’s see where I am. 

I’ve been learning German the whole summer, I have a tutor I had private classes with in Uni, she is amazing, and we have a class almost every 2 week online since the start of the pandemic. Besides that, I’m doing that extra mile.

WHAT EXACTLY I DO

I read two books in German - Andre Klein’s Dino lernt Deutsch series made for beginners in German. I rewatched the first two season of Dark before season 3 came out, paying extra attention to the language, the grammar and the vocab. And I also watched S3 as well. I have started to revise my High School notes and books. I did a loooads of grammatical excercises on my own.  I started to create flashcards in Quizlet and studied them. I have a 31 days streak in Duolingo, I also use Memrise and Drops at the same time.  I am watching YouTube videos in German (made with the purpose of teaching the German language) whenever I can. I have different grammar books - I try to go through all of them. When I did the placement test, I went through my mistakes, collected them into different categories and now I know what I have to focus on. I’m listening to podcasts in German - one of my favourite is Coffeebreak German, you should all try it out.

AND WHERE I AM KNOW...

According to a placement test I took online, I am around level B1 which feels unbelievable - from almost nothing, from a huge blur, I could manage to get that result. I did some reading, listening and grammatical tests in B1 level - I barely have any mistakes. I can talk about the topic eating|Essen, so I am coming up with the second part of that post. I can understand the language sooo much better. I’m getting used to grammatical forms, sentence types which felt weird/unnatural a few months ago. I can talk in German about basic topics in basic sentences. I understand and can use the conjugation of adjectives which I found extra hard in June. I can read basic texts and guess the meaning. I read the very first chapter of Harry Potter in German. It took almost a half an hour but I read it.

so, you may be wondering, who’s this girl that came out of nowhere on my dashboard? well hello, let me introduce myself. I’m Patricia, they used to call me Pats, and I had a studyblr, like, three years ago, while i was still in High School.

Since then, a lot has changed on my life. For starters, I no longer live in Venezuela, my home country. I moved to Germany in January, and have been learning german ever since. Currently I have a B1-B2 level, but I’ve been feeling myself a bit behind and I want to start applying myself more and more. When I was doing IB and needed to do the same, studyblr really helped me, so I figure I would give it another try! That’s why I’m here.

I'm learning german cause I want to study here. I've lived in Konstanz and Berlin, both while attending to a language school that offers accommodation. Till now I've really enjoyed this experience, and i want to share it with you guys too. I hope you stick with me for the ride!

21.10.20 // Day 3

Today was weird because my partner was working from home today so I didn't have any access to my work space, which i guess I didn't mind too much because I'm feeling a bit under the weather, so working in bed ended up actually being nice. ☁️☕

I did lots of self care today and started working on my TestDaF preparation! 6 months to go!

Lots of tea today and taking it slow. ( ◜‿◝ )♡

Kennen Sie irgendwelche deutschsprachige Youtubers, die ich schauen könnte?

Ich lerne Deutsch seit fast sechs Jahre (Englisch ist meine Muttersprache - Entschuldigung, wenn es Sprachfehler gibt!), und ich möchte meine Sprachkenntnisse verbessern.

Ein paar Themen, die ich sehe gern auf YouTube, sind:

Universitäts- oder Schulleben

Kunst

Bücher

'Ästhetische' Youtubers

Lässige Vlogs im Allgemein

Ich würde aber anderen Themen auch schauen!