Nov. 5, 2020
One year later
Today marks a special occasion. Exactly 365 days ago I started a language learning journey, without exactly knowing where I was heading. I decided to really get serious about learning German, so for me this meant writing as much as possible in order to reinforce things I knew and to get better at topics I had yet to learn.
A couple of years ago I had the idea to do PhD exchange program in Germany, so I naturally wanted to learn the language. The problem here was, that I had little time to attend a proper intensive course, so I took a semi-regular German course for about a year. The course was not very effective and by the end of it I estimate that I was around A1 or A2 (based on the CEFR). Some time after that I was able to come to Germany for six months to finish my PhD studies. During this time, I was very much unable to properly communicate with natives but was able to manage with my A2 level German on a day to day basis. Since German was not necessary for my PhD studies, I also lacked the motivation to continue to learn it.
Fast-forward to today. I currently work at a German company where English is widely spoken and used. Fortunately, the company offers German courses free of charge, the pressure there is however non-existent, there are no tests and doing homework is not something you are expected to regularly do. So, this means again, that some amount of self-study is necessary.
So, what did I learnt after writing every day? Sometimes you don’t feel like it, sometimes you are tired and sometimes you just want to quit altogether. What stopped me from quitting then? The progress I was seeing, not wanting to give up on my streak and mainly all the positive feedback I was getting from all the wonderful people here in LangCorrect.
My English probably got a lot worse, since I write considerably less. On the bright side, I am sure I will get lots of helpful corrections on this entry 😊.
Here is to many more years of learning together!
-Rom
One year later
Today marks a special occasion.
Exactly 365 days ago, I started a language learning journey, without exactly knowing where I was heading.
I decided to really get serious about learning German, so for me, this meant writing as much as possible in order to reinforce things I knew and to get better at topics I had yet to learn.
A couple of years ago, I had the idea to do PhDa Ph.D. exchange program in Germany, so I naturally wanted to learn the language.
The problem here was, that I had little time to attend a proper intensive course, so I took a semi-regular German course for about a year.
The course was not very effective, and by the end of it, I estimate that I was around A1 or A2 (based on the CEFR).
Some time after that, I was able to cocame to Germany for six months to finish my PhD.D. studies.
During this time, I was very much unable to properly communicate with natives but was able toproperly but managed with my A2 level German on a day to day basisdaily.
Since German was not necessary for my PhD.D. studies, I also lacked the motivation to continue to learn it.
Fast-forward to today.
I currently work at a German company where English is widely spoken and used.
Fortunately, the company offers German courses free of charge, the pressure there is, however non-existent, there are no tests and doing homework is not something you are expected to do regularly do.
So, this means again, that some amount of self-study is necessary.
So, what did I learnt after writing every day?
Sometimes you don’t feel like it, sometimes you are tired, and sometimes you just want to quit altogether.
What stopped me from quitting then?
My English probably got a lot worse, since I write considerably less.
On the bright side, I am sure I will get lots of helpful corrections on this entry 😊.
Here is to many more years of learning together!
-Rom
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One year later
Today marks a special occasion.
Exactly 365 days ago I started a language learning journey, without exactly knowing where I was heading.
I decided to really get serious about learning German, so for me this meant writing as much as possible in order to reinforce things I knew and to get better at topics I had yet to learn.
A couple of years ago I had the idea to do a PhD exchange program in Germany, so I naturally I wanted to learn the language.
In my experience it's more commonly worded this way
The problem here was, that I had little time to attend a proper intensive course, so I took a semi-regular German course for about a year.
The course was not very effective and by the end of it I estimate that I was around A1 or A2 (based on the CEFR).
Some time after that I was able to come to Germany for six months to finish my PhD studies.
During this time, I was very much unable to properly communicate with natives but was able to manage with my A2 level German on a day to day basis.
Since German was not necessary for my PhD studies, I also lacked the motivation to continue to learn it.
Fast-forward to today.
I currently work at a German company where English is widely spoken and used.
Fortunately, the company offers German courses free of charge. However, the pressure there is however non-existent, there are no tests and doing homework is not something you are not expected to regularly do homework.
Modified the last part about homework to make it less redundant
You could also write:
Fortunately, the company offers German courses free of charge, but the pressure there is non-existent, there are no tests and you are not expected to regularly do homework.
So, this means again, that some amount of self-study is necessary.
So, what did I learnt after writing every day?
Sometimes you don’t feel like it, sometimes you are tired and sometimes you just want to quit altogether.
What stopped me from quitting then?
The progress I was seeing, not wanting to give up on my streak and mainly all the positive feedback I was getting from all the wonderful people here ion LangCorrect.
My English probably got a lot worse, since I write considerably less.
On the bright side, I am sure I will get lots of helpful corrections on this entry 😊.
Here is to many more years of learning together!
-Rom
Feedback
Congratulations!!! I noticed that you have the highest streak on this platform and I admire your dedication to learning German.
You write very well. The first time I read through your entry nothing stood out to me! I went back through and reviewed it more closely to suggest corrections to minor details. Great work and congratulations again!
Dec. 8, 2020
Thanks for the corrections!
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