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In order to better prepare for the listening exam, I wanted to practice listening and found a YouTube Channel which is called Learn German with GermanPod101.com

The videos that I found useful in that were the following. This one uses only basic vocabulary so it is very nice. It shows dialogues in various scenarios, However whether this is relevant for A1.1 I'm not too convinced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npb6sByRUTo

For A1.1, this following video is more relevant, as all the items from the text are fully covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9os9Q6t6Xc

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In order to do something different, I thought I would try listening to German Pop music and learn some of the common words of German by looking at the lyrics. As music tends to be about day-to-day life, it would be wise to learn some basic vocabulary just from the music lyrics

If you are subscribed to Apple Music, just search for "German Pop" and it should start playing from a soundtrack/playlist

Here are some of my favorites from German pop (Please don't judge me, I like the instruments more than the lyrics!)

I found that some singers sing fast, and that can make it difficult to understand the song as a German beginner. Some of the songs that I found easy to listen to are

Modo - Eins Zwei Polizei (it's fast, but should more than help you learn the german numbers from 1-9)

https://music.apple.com/us/album/was-ist-das/1437463681

Roland Kaiser - Alles order dich
This song is very slow and should give you enough time to understand the meaning

https://music.apple.com/us/album/alles-oder-dich-bonus-track-edition/1480355437?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Roland Kaiser sings very slowly and this means that it should be easier to understand the word pronunciations and meanings by just translating what you hear.

And my favorite german party music is this
https://music.apple.com/us/album/alles-und-immer/1464589881

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In preparation for Speaking exam, I thought about using the new Duolingo stories for practising.
Duolingo stories is a feature where one is presented with a story and Duo asks questions about the scenario in English.
I found Duolingo stories very useful in improving my communication and listening vocabulary for German A1.1

https://stories.duolingo.com/lessons/de-der-test

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After learning about the various food items in Germany, again - I found it difficult to keep track of the articles, so therefore I decided that I will make another Quizlet flashcard to store more words. And then I realised that MLTC has amazingly made some awesome flashcards. I felt so dumb as to why I hadn't used this resource earlier. PLEASE PLEASE USE THIS Resource. It is amazing

https://quizlet.com/MLTC_German

https://quizlet.com/465578010/kapitel-6-zeit-mit-freunden-12-flash-cards/

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After doing the Essential Homework Part 1, I realized that the capitalization rules are different from that of English and it is very hard to get rid of the habit of using English style capitalization.

I found the following websites to be useful

https://www.thoughtco.com/capitalization-in-german-4069437

The above is quite wordy, so I would say go through these to more or less solidify your understanding.

https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/37442/capitalizing-of-titles

http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/basics/capitalization-and-punctuation/

However, one can only learn the rules from these sites. If you want to truly test your grammar and get instant feedback as you write, I recommend this website

https://languagetool.org/
Make sure you select the language as German. It should show you the errors - the ones in red are serious, the ones in yellow are grammatical errors for which you need to pay money to fix?

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I realized that after doing the lecture regarding travel, I found it very hard to remember the gender pronouns and articles. So I decided I will make a Quizlet flashcard to remember the genders of various words that I have learned during MLT105 starting from Week 1 till Week 5

The quizlet flashcard that I made can be found here

https://quizlet.com/_7lu5fw?x=1qqt&i=2iptz0

I found that this is a better approach compared to ISR Record 2, as it would be unreasonable to learn an arbitrary set of words.

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After doing the exercise from A1.1 Book where I had to listen to a recording of the alphabets of the name being spelled to another person, I understood that pronuncing alphabets in German is nothing like is in English.

Therefore, I searched online to learn the pronunciations. I found some good websites and some websites that used phonetics, which were not that helpful as one would have to understand phonetics.

The websites that I found helpful were,

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-german-alphabet-1444644
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/german/lessons/german-alphabet

The most effective one was this video from a Youtuber called "Learn from Anja"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-e4cXgmEy4

She helps make the distinction between the Alphabets such as E, G, and I, which are all very similar.

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I wanted to get familiar with some words in English and I wanted to expand my vocabulary in German. The best place I thought to look at was content relating to GCSE Level, as I have never learned German before. I googled for content from AQA GCSE and got the following.

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/gcse/german-8668/subject-content/vocabulary

There are over 1000(!) words and that is a lot and that was overwhelming. So I chose to study the words such as comparisons and connectives and negatives. I wrote some of them down but found it hard to re-call. Next week I shall put some of the words I found into Quizlet flashcard for practise.

Overwhelmed by the source above, I managed to find a list of common german words and phrases, which seemed less overwhelming and more to the point.

https://www.dummies.com/languages/german/common-conversational-words-and-phrases-in-german/

In the above link, I found the sections "Phrases for travel" and references to "People" possibly useful in the future, in addition to "Courteous phrases"