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How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread (Aug 9) (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by emb@lemmy.world to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

While my studies in my textbook progress slowly, I've actually been listening to a lot more German music... as I'm "feeling a level up".

I'm suddenly understanding a lot of songs I didn't think I could understand. "Völlig losgelöst" has been seemingly outside of my level for a while, but today my brain is beginning to understand it. So that's been inspiring me to listen to a lot of music and Youtube videos to try to understand.

Another example: this Plankton short-video was mostly understood by me: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-1SU2j6ggyg

I've been listening to a lot of Plankton videos because I find him funny but "above my level". Today, suddenly I'm watching "with understanding". It took a few rewinds and one or two pause + look up words on Wiktionary... but I actually fully understand this German pun + get the humor.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

The level ups are the best.