90 - Day Challenge, Day 2

First disappointments and how to deal with it.

Hello Dear Reader.

Today I had been working with the first chapter of the languager Course from Cornelsen. I copied the first dialog down to my notepad. I translated every single word and noticed some really interesting things in the Turkish language. The grammar is completely different. For example have they got a question particle.

Engl:  Is there Bread?

Turk: Ekmek var mı? (Bread there-is "question particle")

90 Day Turkish Challenge - Day 1

90 Day Turkish Challenge - Day 1

Collecting Material.

Hello dear readers.

Today is the first day I am learning turkish. So far I started collecting material for learning it. First of all I went to the local library and borrowed two courses. First there is "Haya tatile! - Türkisch für den Urlab" (turkish for vacation) from the "Hueber"- publisher. Secondly there is "Lextra - Sprachkurs Plus Türkisch" by Cornelsen. Both are made for beginners.

90 Day Challenge

Announcement: The 90 day turkish challenge.

Hello dear followers.

I have decided to learn a new language from almost scratch: Turkish.
In chose to learn for 90 days to reach fluency. My goal is to have a decent conversation, to understand most of the radio, to read easy novels, to go shopping at a turkish market.

I chose 90 days because three months are a period of time where your motivation is very high. It shrinks naturally after those three months, so you will have the most succes within those 90 days. The inspiration for sharing my progress with you was given to me by the great Youtube-Polyglot Steve Kaufman. He did a 90-day Korean challenge and in my opinion that is so damn fantastic! Like him and many other Youtubers and Bloggers I want to do the same.

Language learning, doing sports and playing the Piano

Good noon, dear reader.

I say: Learning a language is like doing sports.

Certainly you are a bit confused now, but I will explain this statement later on.

First of all I want to say thank you to everybody who is reading this blog. When I started it, I did not expect so many readers and followers, thank you!

Duolingo - What I think about it

Hello dear readers.

Many of you might have heard of Duolingo, a completely free language learning app. It became quite popular in the language learning community and there are many reasons therefore. I personally did learn with Duolingo and therefore am going to analyse this website. Let me first introduce it to you, how it works, what services it provides to you and later on I am going to tell you what I think about, whether I would recommend it to you.

How to start using the language properly.

Hello dear reader.

If you want to learn a foreign language, your goal might be using it. For communication purposes. That is why humans developed language and what we use it for. But there are different sorts of communication and different ways to deal with it.

There are many problems you have if you want to start communicating in a foreign language. Take Swedish as an example. It is spoken by arround 10 million people mainly in Sweden and parts of Finland. So when you travel to the north and visit Sweden, you may be able to start some conversation in the bakery, the supermarket or with people you meet. But is that your goal? Maybe, but not always. So where else are you able to speak Swedish?

I will give you a few examples in the following article.

Assimil - Swedish with ease

Hello dear readers.

It has been a few days since I published my latest article since I was quite busy within the last days.

Today I am going to talk about the Assimil Swedish with ease course. I bought it about a month ago and studied quite a bit with it. I will tell you about it in three steps:

1. How it works.
2. What I personally think of it.
3. How to integrate it into your learning progress and combining it with other methods.