What tools/methods have you found the most helpful?

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).

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Valerie 1 point 3 years ago

Hello. This is my first post to Feddit.

I was born in Cambodia but speak English well enough (C1) to have taught it as a substitute teacher. I've recently begun trying to learn German on the cheapest possible budget with the help of Creative Commons materials like "A Foundation Course in Reading German" and a used copy of Routledge's 2004 "Basic German grammar and workbook." I also downloaded the free and surprisingly comprehensive bidirectional dictionary app QuickDic from http://quickdic.org/index_e.html. My goal is to be able to read conversations on German-only tech forums and on Mastodon with a fair level of comprehension. I used to enjoy reading the /German subreddit before the recent "troubles" there.

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RULES

Make sure anything you plan on asking has not already been answered.
No harassing someone over their level of the language of German. Everyone starts somewhere.
No harassing period actually. Obviously no bigotry falls under this category.
In general, no low effort posts or spam. If you ask a question and it didn't receive much engagement, don't go on to ask it again immediately, at the least remove the original copy.
No NSFW. This rule has its loose limits and some exceptions (i.e. commenting on German "dirty talk" and whatnot is alright).
Mods are the interpreters of these rules, and have jurisdiction over other cases where a rule isn't explicitly mentioned here, but it is a common sense rule.
This community is largely for English speakers learning/discussing German. Other languages aren't outright banned yet, but expect minimal support. If other communities arise for German help in other languages, then those languages will be barred from this community in favor of the new one.

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