Current Events > im going to Mexico, UK, and Germany next year for work

(+) Yeah! (+)

well?
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What do you do?
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always mexico
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assassinCrash posted...

What do you do?

internal audit - subset of accounting

Parappa09 posted...

always mexico

hopefully this year i don't end up with diarrhea for 4 days followed by constipation for a week
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do you guys think i can learn german in 10 months completely by sometimes opening duolingo once every few days or weeks
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Where in Germany?

Vamp_Aubrey posted...

do you guys think i can learn german in 10 months completely by sometimes opening duolingo once every few days or weeks

:l
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eschborn (Frankfurt), stuttgart, and munich for oktoberfest

i hope my history of playing return to castle Wolfenstein has caused me to learn enough German to get by
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im planning to go to munich for oktoberfest with a few friends actually
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Parappa09 posted...

im planning to go to munich for oktoberfest with a few friends actually

you know when you'll be there? I'll prob be there the first weekend
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

Parappa09 posted...

im planning to go to munich for oktoberfest with a few friends actually

you know when you'll be there? I'll prob be there the first weekend

not yet, we're going to discuss it and book around march time so i'll let you know. but it'll definitely be a long weekend type deal
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

eschborn (Frankfurt)

Dude, if I found out you crossed the border into Offenbach...

Well, I'll be praying for your immortal soul
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

eschborn (Frankfurt), stuttgart, and munich for oktoberfest

i hope my history of playing return to castle Wolfenstein has caused me to learn enough German to get by

Nice! Cool you get a bit of variety.
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

do you guys think i can learn german in 10 months completely by sometimes opening duolingo once every few days or weeks

you can absofreaking lutely get to conversationally solid level in that time, but you'll have to commit more than a few rounds of duolingo to it.

The faster you can get to reading and listening to stuff, the faster you'll get good. It should take only around 3 months of moderate study (committing to memory about 20 new words a day perhaps) and in that time you should have enough vocab and grammar under your belt to infer through context stuff you read. Doing the same with listening will take more practice but 10 months is plenty of time.

Once you make reading and listening to it a part of your daily life (forcing yourself to keep up with news exclusively through the language, playing games in it, reading most of your entertainment media in it) the rest comes down to time and exposure.

And yeah last time I was in Germany was only 4 months after starting to learn German and I was perfectly fine in like coffee shops/bars etc. I switched to English in restaurants because that was more complicated.

Listen to a lot of German music, play games in German (Bethesda games like Skyrim and Fallout are great, in no small part because of the inventory system wherein there's no L1-L2 translation, just an image and the L2 word).
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ASithLord7 posted...

And yeah last time I was in Germany was only 4 months after starting to learn German and I was perfectly fine in like coffee shops/bars etc. I switched to English in restaurants because that was more complicated.

Listen to a lot of German music, play games in German (Bethesda games like Skyrim and Fallout are great, in no small part because of the inventory system wherein there's no L1-L2 translation, just an image and the L2 word).

Try playing Diablo, with it's antiquated/"High German" language, in German :p
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ok thats a lot of work not gonna lie

teepan said i can get by for 2 weeks with just english
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You should learn spanish, become a conquistador.