like when i'm doing the dishes or whatever yeah great podcast and it's really great because they have this big long text and you know you kind of catch some of the text and then they go through it advanced yeah it does get advanced but i like that a lot because it gives me a chance to try and listen what the one thing though that's interesting with the free ones is that you get pretty good at reading and you get pretty good at understanding but you don't have a lot of chance to speak right and so right now i can understand quite a lot but formulating those complicated sentences and getting the right word order and getting the right articles right you know i'm i you know it sounds pretty ugly when i talk but i can usually get my my point across but definitely i understand a lot more than than i can speak at the moment it's sort of like you get what you pay for yeah like i'm getting that with lingoda i'm getting the speaking practice and i have a teacher that can correct my pronunciation correct my word order correct my grammar and yeah with free apps you're not going to get that yeah but it's still a great addition to that or if you're doing nothing at all doing something free is better than doing nothing and now i mean what i do a lot is you know communicating with the teachers communicating with people through businesses through email or or whatsapp and so a lot of what i do is like the hockey team there's a whatsapp group for the hockey team and so i'll read through it and see if i understand everything and i'll copy and paste it into either google translate or depot and then i'll uh usually i'll write what i want to say in english and have it translated but then i'll look at it and so i'm always doing that multiple times a day and i learn a lot just by doing the translation and copy and pasting the stuff and and so that's how i'm doing a lot of my progress of course when i'm out and about and talking with people you know do that too but uh it's a lot of just correspondence with different people that's where i'm doing most of my german now i also like the dw app they have nico who uh is like what is he spanish i think and he comes to germany and they have these little videos where there's conversations in german and then they have all these questions about it in german seeing if you understood the conversation so it's very real life conversations they also go through grammar and teach you vocab and it's totally free and it's i mean it's a heavy duty app it's really good and i want to thank one of my friends katie for recommending that app to me she lives in the black forest she's an american and so thanks katie for that suggestion that's how she has learned german actually is through the dw app and it's really interesting nowadays there's so much everything's on the internet and everything you know i work in high tech and you can learn about artificial intelligence or whatever stuff there's so many free resources on the net on the internet and so if you want to you can go and find them and sort of curate them
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN like i'm getting that with lingoda i'm getting the speaking practice and i have a teacher that can correct my pronunciation correct my word order correct my grammar and yeah with free apps you're not going to get that yeah but it's still a great addition to that or if you're doing nothing at all doing something free is better than doing nothing END_SPONSOR_TOKEN