Guten Tag an alle DeutschlernerInnen: Join our Five-Hours-a-Day-in-German Challenge and Track your Progress!
Hello to all learners of German inside and outside our program: Challenge yourself to find out how much time you can spend in language (even if you’re not in Germany).
Our Challenge: Spend at least 5 hours a day ‘in language’ and track your activtities to watch these minutes add up! Feel free to add as many hours as you can.
Here’s what counts:
ST (Studieren = all activities related to coursework)
PC (listen to a German Podcast)
L (Lesen: read anything unrelated to coursework)
F (Film anschauen: watch a German movie (Film)
M (Musik hören: Listen to music with German lyrics)
TV (Fernsehen: watch German TV online)
Hb (Hörbuch hören: listen to a German Audiobook)
Sp (Speaking to the Natives: Sprech-Stunde mit MuttersprachlerIn)
KK (Kaffeeklatschen in Zoom oder im Webspace: catch up with your fellow students and other German learners/speakers via zoom or our webspace in German!)
WW (Writing Workshop w. BabelGuide)
V. (Verschiedenes (all other activities you do in German. By the way: how about Playing Animal Crossing in German?)
If you’re a bullet journal person, you can draw your own tracker – or use this one (non-artistic but functional): Mein Leben auf Deutsch April Tracker
You’re welcome to join our contest for the most hours spent in German from April to end of July 2020 – just send an email to: hfahrenb@middlebury.edu
Viel Spaß beim Leben auf Deutsch – und bleiben Sie gesund!
Mit herzlichem Gruß –
Heike Fahrenberg, Director