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Old Jun 02, 2018, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by ArcheM View Post
Yeah, I get the feeling that at this point I'm doing about as well with just looking up my grammatical questions and issues for Welsh, as you with a book + Duolingo for German. Quite honestly, I don't think I've come across anything that I didn't manage to figure out quite thoroughly, and just today I've defeated a construction where a subordinate sentence starting with "the reason why" for some reason continues with a definite article... Well, I guess you can't say I solved it thoroughly, but based on my research that's just how you form sentences like that.

Although I only manage to get through a sentence or two a day... Well, on the other hand, it can take me up to half an hour... I guess there's pros and cons to everything.

However... yeah, at least for Welsh, so far freeform browsing of the internet has performed much better than what I remember of textbooks for previous languages. I feel more motivated, I understand things better... And yeah, I may get frustrated, but I'm never bored, which has often happened with textbooks. But I may be at the right time (not the place, of course). I can imagine that only a couple years ago Internet resources might have been much more sparse... And of course, there's a certain allure to a well put-together textbook. Which extends to bragging material if you've got friends coming over. Proudly displaying Internet bookmarks doesn't really make a lot of sense.
My book is basically for basic things, it's not too in dept (though it has over 300 pages), but it's good for beginning things. Right now I'm on the telling time lesson, and we here in the U.S. only use the 12hr time system, and we break that up into am/pm to avoid misunderstanding, but (and I don't knpw if it's like this for other European countries as well), Germany hses both the 12hr and 24hr time systems, so the book will teach how to tell/ask the time in both systems. I just started the lesson though so I don't know how long it is or anything.
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