Hallo und willkommen zu meiner Frage!
Title says it all, I’ve been taking my Deutsch seriously for just under a year and have found some good tools that I find helpful for learning, I’m sure everyone will have encountered these before but hey — we’re a new community and it’s good to get discussions started.
A book that I’m going through at the minute is called: German Grammar Drills by Ed Swick — recommended by elyssespeaks auf YouTube.
I’ve been using LingQ for a few weeks now and I think it’s such a simple yet useful tool for boosting vocabulary, it makes it enjoyable to read in another language.
Anymore for anymore, currently I’m trying to escape being on three different language apps (looking at you Duolingo, Memrise, Speakly).
This is awesome! How have you found Clozemaster? I ended up uninstalling it yesterday, it presented itself as something different but really it’s just a very simple version of some of the other apps I’m using.
The DW videos are great, so well produced for a language learning ‘show’ — i’d definitely say stick with it because listening to Germans talk IRL is soooo much harder.
I need to book my next iTalki, it’s the hardest thing to do but there’s nothing quite like putting all the vocab you’ve learnt to use and being somewhat articulate!
I liked Clozemaster for a while, but now it’s only worth it if you get the paid version, otherwise you can only do 30 sentences a day. I did find it helped to see vocabulary in context.
The DW videos are OK but I’d rather watch real input if I’m going to work with speech. I really enjoyed a Netflix film “Offline - das Leben ist kein Bonuslevel”, and a DVD of “Frau Muller muss Weg”. The Netflix Criminal Series were good too.
I’m giving italki a miss for now, because talking to Heidi is much more fun. (She the friend of Angelika Bohn that I mentioned earlier.)