I haven't posted for a few days but I'm trying to kept at it. I don't always have something to say. I should go re-read the section in the Polyglot Project that inspired me to do this, to find out how they discovered this technique.
Anyways I think it is working at some level. I do think more about the methods I'm using and whether or not they are really working. It's also nice to see that I have made a lot of progress since I started in the middle of April. I will continue to journal because I enjoy writing about my language learning adventure.
I went on a podcast blitz yesterday, like I did with books over the weekend. I got a bunch from Deutsche Welle but not their "Deutsch, warum nicht?," one because its very slow and two its more English than German. I prefer my input sources to be almost all in German. However I downloaded their audio trainer podcast and its very nice. It gives the English word/sentence and the German word/sentence twice. The episodes are themed and mostly consist of useful phrases. I've been going through the episodes "shadowing" the German speakers since there isn't enough time after the sentence to repeat it. The others are just general podcasts put out by DW that are completely in German. I hope that listening to these will improve both my listen comprehension and pronunciation.
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