https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh en-us 2018-11-01 04:51:54 UTC 2018-12-07 17:43:47 UTC hello@padlet.com adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/299245930 05.10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-e4cXgmEy4
I watched this German alphabet video through; it is about 5 minutes long. I practiced pronouncing each letter and then made sure I could do it all by memory. The video also reminded me that "buchstabieren - to spell" can be used instead of schreiben. Afterwards I tried spelling some level names from video games, such as "Space Colony Ark", "Chemical Plant Zone" and so on. One thing I had to remember was the difference in pronunciation between "e" and "i" and also between "ß" and "z". I will try to spell common signs and names I come across while walking to and from university, such as "Students' Union" "Hicks Buiding" etc.]]> 2018-11-01 04:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/299245930 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/299251405 12.10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuXxNSj_y5w
I watched this video about the Akkusativ form, it is about 10 minutes long. It helped solidify my understanding of the basic Akkusativ form. This was something I had found very confusing when I studied German years ago but it seems simple now. The fact that only the masculine article changes in the most basic instances of the form makes it easier. I thought there might be more to learn, so I found this page https://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Nouns/accusative.html and read it to learn more. This presented some more complicated concepts but I am understanding them decently, although I need to revisit and read more to cement the knowledge.]]> 2018-11-01 05:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/299251405 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076096 17.10
https://german.tolearnfree.com/free-german-lessons/free-german-exercise-87905.php
I used this page to try translating some larger German numbers, as this trips me up from time to time. I struggled at first but quickly understood the rules of how numbers translate and got them all right. Numbers generally seem easy but I noticed it can take a while to figure out how to say a long German number out loud. I decided to work more on my speed so that I could pronounce a number much more quickly when I saw it.
https://www.random.org/ I used this random number generator and tested how quickly I could say each number when it appeared. My speed improved.]]> 2018-12-06 23:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076096 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076196 27.10
There is a video game called The Walking Dead Season 1 whose plot I already know inside and out through repeated play. It is majorly a dialogue-based game which means a lot of reading is required, and the player chooses what to say for each situation from a list of responses.
I played a couple hours of it again with the language setting changed to German, and so was able to read things in real time and with the English audio playing. This meant there were times where I was comparing what I was reading to what I was hearing, but also times where I had to use my own memory of a dialogue option to figure out what the German options were. Certain repeated words and phrases such as "vielleicht" and "bitte" have stuck in my head as a result, and I also have gotten a better grasp of how German might work in everyday speech and be affected by colloquialisms.]]> 2018-12-06 23:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076196 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076241 5.11
https://www.random.org/clock-times/ I used this random clock generator to test myself and practice telling the time in German. Telling the time seems pretty easy when you know the rules but I would sometimes mix up which hours to use, for example, "halb sieben" is 6:30 not 7:30. I also indirectly was able to practice the use of "vor" and "nach". I will retain this knowledge by telling the time in German whenever I check it. I also looked at my university timetable and recited the lecture and seminar times in German.]]> 2018-12-06 23:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076241 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076420 7.11
I decided to experiment a bit with using German in real life, and tried to organise a night out with friends purely using German. This caused some frustration to say the least. For the most part I could get my friends to understand what I was planning through context, so the learning experience was more about me comparing how I knew to say things to their grammatically correct English counterpart. For example, at first I thought "Wir gehen in die Kneipe" would be the correct thing to say, but that translates to "We go to the pub" rather than "Let's go to the pub," and so on. Since then I have been thinking more about the phrases that I use every day to interact with people, and looking up grammatically similar German translations for them.]]> 2018-12-06 23:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312076420 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312186745 15.11
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zgkhfrd/revision/1
I used this BBC Bitesize page to revise modal verbs. There were 10 pages going over different examples, conjugating modal verbs such as mögen and dürfen, and going over how to use the negative with modal verbs. I took notes and compared them to my class notes to see what gaps in knowledge I might have had. There was a test to do after reading these with 10 questions. I made a few mistakes at first but eventually got them all right. I have written down the conjugations of modal verbs and will revisit them to remind myself.]]> 2018-12-07 12:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312186745 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312194911 24.11
I made a list of all the things I had eaten for the past week, including cooked meals, and translated each one into German to practice my food vocabulary. When it came to full meals, I decided to split them up into recipes and translate those. I have decided to note down what I eat throughout the next week and do the same exercise again afterwards. Aside from helping me realise my diet is not very healthy, this has expanded my knowledge of food vocabulary in German; some things I was struggling to remember before became cemented. This also helped a bit with understanding certain compound words, such as "Schinkenbrot".]]> 2018-12-07 12:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312194911 adamavandy1 https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312197572 4.12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC1kWsL_Azo I watched this video on the perfect tense, and also did this quiz on separable verbs https://german.net/exercises/verbs/separable/
It took 4 tries but I got them all right. Then I wrote down the verbs used and tried to re-conjugate them in the perfect. This was a bit hard as for a lot of them I struggled to figure out what auxiliary verb to use. What helped me with this was looking back on my notes to find the "sein" would be used for a change of state. To finish off I did this perfect tense quiz. https://german.net/exercises/tenses/perfect/
The perfect tense has fairly understandable rules; sometimes I also make mistakes with certain verbs which don't require a "ge" at the beginning of the conjugation, such as "Ich habe fotographiert". I have made a list of a few of these in my notes to remind myself.]]> 2018-12-07 12:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/adamavandy1/xt4f186wuzoh/wish/312197572