German lessons

[Old Crank]

I live in Germany so I keep plugging away at the language. Everyday I use Duolingo to learn more things.

I had gone through all the exercises a while back and then they changed the whole thing. That is good but it wiped out a couple of years of progress in their system. I'm plugging away and the lessons, on the whole, are better now. IMHO.

There are now things that are more important to cultural German than before. Learning a language also involves learning some culture. There is a section on Germany and different areas are mentioned, even if it is superficial. This past weekend I got to a new exercise.
It is a section with lesson involving Spargel, asparagus. This is really important with Spargelzeit, asparagus time, being a very important season at least around Munich.
I now have a sargeltopf, asparagus pot, for cooking it. Fun.

[highplainsdem]

1. Good for you for continuing to learn the language!

I'm not familiar with Duolingo, but I'm glad you found it helpful.

I discovered that YouTube's algorithm will helpfully offer you language lessons if you're looking at music videos and interviews or documentaries from artists in another country. So I got videos on German and Germany after I looked at a lot of music videos from Die Toten Hosen, on Dutch after I'd checked out a lot of Golden Earring videos, and on Spanish (including ads in Spanish in other videos) when I was looking at videos from Latino artists. Plus various cultural videos including vlogs from expats living there.