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February 21, 2007
Instant German
I've been working through my well thumbed copy of "German in Three Months" for about 15 years now (nearly half way through!) but this relies on a goodly chunk of time to sit down and actually study the book (hence the limited progress). However when I was helping a friend move some furniture yesterday I stumbled across a Free CD that had dropped out of a copy of the Independent (Newspaper) many moons ago, it's called "Instant German" and I have salvaged it.
Now this is even more optimistically titled than my book but I figured as it was CD based I could at least 'instantly' learn while washing up or the like.
So .... tonight while tackling Mt Washing Up I fired up the CD player for some 'Instant' Learning. It turns out there should be a booklet (presumably this is in the long since lost copy of the newspaper) but I gave it a go anyway. I particularly liked the very practical advice in the introduction to chapter one.
"Please open the book at 'week one' so you can follow along; but if you are currently behind the wheel of a car or jogging I wouldn't advise you to do this!"
I also enjoyed their suggestion of pronouncing a certain vowel combination (and I quote) "like the letter 'i' in the english word 'fly' " ?????
Anyway I've learned a bit more vocab (as well as a new way to spell 'fly!')
It was also today that I spotted an advert for a Youth work job in Germany! Very tempting BUT I may need another three months of Instant learning yet.
Posted by ian at February 21, 2007 6:54 PM