Progress Report: Learning German with Anki

After reading numerous articles on Hacking Chinese, I decided to dive into Anki. Anki is space repetition software. It lets you create any set of flashcards that you want, and then helps you review your deck daily in a more efficient manner. Thanks to the iPhone app,...

Dem Tweet könnte ich verstehen!

»Der einzige Weg, ein wirklicher Meister zu werden, ist, immer ein Schüler zu bleiben.« – Zen-Weisheit #anfängergeist — Marcus Raitner (@marcusraitner) June 9, 2014 Today I saw a retweet from one of my German friends. At first glance, I spotted bits and pieces I could...

Duolingo makes learning another language a hoot!

I’ve always wanted to be conversationally fluent in another language. I studied three years of German in high school, but that was 25 years ago. At one point in my life, I purchased a German newspaper and a German-English dictionary, hoping to go through it word...