Progressing through German

 Over the last 2 weeks, I have progressed in my German by using some new tools and continuing with my old resources. I am still following my action plan, although I have added a few more resources. I continued progressing on Duolingo, using a 7-day free trial for Duolingo MAX, which gave me access to AI conversations and unlimited lives. This helped me extend my 30-minute-a-day sessions to around 45 minutes. Normally my time on Duolingo is capped by me running out of lives, but now I can go until I get bored. Below is how much I have progressed in the Duolingo lessons.

Using this AI on Duolingo sparked ideas of what to do when this 7-day trail ends. I can use one of the new additions on chat GTP, which is speaking. I posted this as a source on my online German learning community, and everyone said Chat GTP had a great German accent. I can practice speaking and texting the AI. Chat GTP is like a penpal that answers immediately and provides feedback after my conversation. Doulingo sometimes feels slow and repetitive; because of this, I started asking Chat GTP for a list of definitions to add to my quizlet to accelerate my vocabulary learning. I have also continued listening to podcasts. The one I listened to was called “Kein Kaffee und kein Bier,” meaning no coffee and no beer. This podcast was a harder one, and I couldn’t pick up what it was saying. I feel it still benefited me as I got better at differentiating words. 

The final thing I did was listen to a German music playlist. I was not a fan of any of these songs, and I feel the German language isn’t the best for music as it is a little more choppy than other languages. Here are the few songs I liked out of the 3 playlists I listened to also.

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