{"id":44,"date":"2005-02-10T12:51:32","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/blogs\/ein2\/2005\/02\/10\/german-giant-not\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T17:51:32","slug":"german-giant-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/2005\/02\/10\/german-giant-not\/","title":{"rendered":"[German Giant. Not!]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I studied four semesters of German at university and then I lived in Switzerland for three years. I almost didn’t learn any German at all while living in Switzerland, because I was too shy to speak German with people I’d see more than once and people always wanted to practice their English on me. I never really lost my intention to improve my grasp of the language, though. To facilitate being successful at improving and retaining my German, I purchased the CD versions of beginning\/intermediate German using the Rosetta Stone<\/a>. This software presents everything in the target language, using audio, video, and text. It’s supposed to simulate the way people learned their first language. I actually quite like it, even though it’s a little on the expensive side.
\nI’ve had “improving my German” on my list of goals in LifeBalance<\/a> for over a year. My goal was to do at least an hour a week. Since purchasing Rosetta Stone<\/a> in November of 2003, I’ve completed two entire units at level one, comprising 22 total lessons, and I’m a quarter of the way through a third unit. Given that each lesson takes about an hour and I’ve had at least 54 weeks, I obviously haven’t been very successful at doing the hour a week. I’d like to improve my consistency at working on my German and then expand my skills to being able to read things at a Reader’s Digest<\/i> level.
\nSee more progress on: improve my German<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? I want to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,174],"tags":[223,242,81],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e1n","category-learn1ng","tag-german","tag-language","tag-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}