Re:Ask HN: How friendly is Berlin for startups?
by piva00 on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:49AM
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I'd suggest listening to audiobooks of simple children books instead of shows/podcasts that might be too complex for you now. Also get a German-German dictionary and use it to read simple news websites (reading the definition of a word you don't know in German will help more than translating all the time), listen to radio news as normally the hosts will speak with a more clear intonation and you can pick up words instead of a stream of sounds.
That's at least what is helping me with Swedish.
Realistically if you want to get to at least a B2 level you are going to need much more than 15-30 min daily, even more because you aren't immersed in the culture and German is, frankly speaking, a quite hard language to learn. Sentence structure looks quite foreign if you only know English, grammar is complex, you have 3 different genders, etc.
Not trying to discourage you, much the opposite, go harder and you can do it but be realistic about it.
That's at least what is helping me with Swedish.
Realistically if you want to get to at least a B2 level you are going to need much more than 15-30 min daily, even more because you aren't immersed in the culture and German is, frankly speaking, a quite hard language to learn. Sentence structure looks quite foreign if you only know English, grammar is complex, you have 3 different genders, etc.
Not trying to discourage you, much the opposite, go harder and you can do it but be realistic about it.