I’ve wanted to learn German for a while. I attempted to learn it months ago but I gave up because I was too impatient and didn’t see results instantly… so I quit. I now know that patience with language learning is extremely important! I have been actively learning German for the past 7 weeks, I’ve done the first 30 Assimil lessons and a bit of extra listening and reading. Some days I do not do any German, some days (because of school) I spent a couple of hours using Assimil and using Deutsche Welle - Warum Nicht . I can spend at least 2/3+ hours a day on learning German.
I’m going to be in Düsseldorf for 7 days in 5 weeks time - which is quite exciting and motivating!
At the moment, my vocabulary is quite small. I know basic adjectives, adverbs, 60/70 verbs etc… I am starting to understand bits and pieces of German grammar but I’m hoping that by listening and reading I will start to notice the patterns in the language. After I’ve finished writing this post, I’ll probably spend the next couple reading and listening here on LingQ.
I do have a couple of questions about LingQ:
When I am selecting the lessons to go through here on LingQ, what % of the words should be known to me? Sometimes, I choose texts which have 50-60% unknown words because I find them more interesting. I’m starting to wonder if this % is too high and I should compromise between % of unknown words and how interested I am in the content.
Also, should I solely listen and read for the whole 2-3 hours? Would it be better to complete a lesson of Assimil a day and then maybe just supplement it with listening and reading?
Is there ever so much as too much LingQing? So far today, I’ve created 82 LingQ’s in about 30 minutes. At the end of the day it’ll probably almost 200.
Is it possible with 2-3+ hours a day of learning German, that achieving I’ll be able to achieve a B1 level in 6 months?