How I self-taught German to C1 using immersion — despite being busy and disorganized
As one reader put it, teaching myself German took “2 years of not really doing much actually”
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Language Diary 3: Now with tracked time data!
Lots of German! Also: I finally found a way to track my language learning time consistently.
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Why I don't like to "gendern" in German — and why I do it anyways
As an English native speaker, explicitly calling out that I’m female all the time feels more backwards than progressive. Many German speakers …
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Language Diary #2: Italian Crosstalk
Welcome back to my language diary. Which is apparently biweekly now with posts appearing on either Wednesdays or Thursdays, depending on how I feel. …
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Language Diary #1: Italian and making short-term language plans
I sincerely hope that future Elise will have a much better idea what she’s doing with this whole language business than today Elise, and with …
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How I Passed the Goethe B2 German Exam With a Nearly Perfect Score
Last week on Monday I officially went from monoglot to… duo-glot? Bilingual sounds wrong. I didn’t grow up speaking two languages. …
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