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Jul 17, 2013 - 10:39 AM
Glückwünsche! Of course, you realize that you have completed only the beginning stage of your journey. There are a number of resources available for you to continue. Let me recommend "Das Fenster", which is a monthly German-language magazine produced in the US (they have a website). It will be a bit of a "go" for you to read right now (it's still hard for me, and I lived and taught in Germany), but it will be worth it in terms of your "real world" skills.
Jul 17, 2013 - 11:50 AM
Congrats Chris! That's great! Hope you get to put that hard work into practice. We're raising our glass for you here at the Fluenz Lab :)
Jul 17, 2013 - 10:11 PM
Good job, Chris!
Jul 18, 2013 - 01:07 PM
You deserve to mega brag!!!! I send you virtual congratulations hug.. VERY PROUD!!!
Jul 19, 2013 - 12:54 AM
Thanks for all the nice comments! I do plan on going on to "college" - a fancy way of saying I plan to learn more German. I have a couple of books already - "Hammer's German Grammar and Usage" and "Barron's 501 German Verbs". They should keep me busy for a while. I also found a cool website/app. I don't know if I can mention the name on here - it's the one with the owl. Thanks for the tip, Daniel - I'll be sure and check out "Das Fenster".
Auf Wiedersehen,
Chris
Auf Wiedersehen,
Chris
Mar 30, 2014 - 06:58 AM
That is awesome. So how would you rate yourself compared to High School or even College classes? German 4? German 202?
Jul 12, 2014 - 01:04 AM
Hi warriorfan808:
I considered myself an advanced beginner after finishing Fluenz. After another year of studying German (1 and a half years total), I now consider myself to be at the intermediate level. I've been working mainly on the Duolingo site for the past year. I've recently joined a site called Memrise, so I can continue to learn and improve my German. At some point, I'd like to buy some German-English story books (the simple ones, first) - and gradually work my way up to more advanced books. I've come a long way in a year and a half - it feels "toll".
I considered myself an advanced beginner after finishing Fluenz. After another year of studying German (1 and a half years total), I now consider myself to be at the intermediate level. I've been working mainly on the Duolingo site for the past year. I've recently joined a site called Memrise, so I can continue to learn and improve my German. At some point, I'd like to buy some German-English story books (the simple ones, first) - and gradually work my way up to more advanced books. I've come a long way in a year and a half - it feels "toll".
Jul 12, 2014 - 04:02 PM
I used Fluenz Spanish and have recently begun 20 hours of Spanish classes a week at an accredited language institute. After using Fluenz, my language skills were accessed against the European Common Framework for language teaching as being A1-4 level, meaning advanced beginner. (A1 is broken up into four modules; A1-4 means I have enough knowledge to pass three of four). I think this was the right classification, because Fluenz doesn't teach enough vocab to get me to a stronger level. I do, however, think that Fluenz focuses energy on teaching the most relevant and used vocabulary,and that's the right approach for most people.
Jul 14, 2014 - 10:13 PM
Deutsch Perfekt is a pdf magazine that is good for language learning to build vocabulary. It is not cheap but has different levels. There are also some beginning books on Amazon that also help build vocabulary.