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July Newsletter Recap
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Willkommen zum Recap vom letzten Monat (Juli).
Welcome to the recap of last month (July).
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If you don't know what this is yet... every month, I send a sort of summary newsletter where I tell you what lessons and quizzes I posted and what updates and upgrades I shared.
If you're not interested in this, just ignore it, you're not gonna miss anything new... well, almost nothing :)
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But quite a few of you do like these overviews because newsletters age faster than milk on a window sill in a thunderstorm and the recap helps you stay up to date and maybe get back to lessons you were interested in but didn't have the time at the time.
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I started out with sharing my new practice tool for reflexive verbs, which now joins the case drill, location drill and verb and preposition drill and the case chart memory game as another cool tool to hone a specific area of German.
You can practice true reflexive verbs as well as those that are just used reflexively and you also see those that can go either way and you have to decide whether or not you actually need a reflexive.
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Like all tools, it comes with an explainer for each answer, so you can build understanding of what's going on and how reflexive works in German.
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Then, we had a lesson on the word schief and its family. We explored what schief means, how it's different from schraeg and other similar words, and we go over the cool fixed hrasings with schief like schieflaufen or schiefliegen.
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If you like exploring where words come from, how they related to each other and what parts they are made of, my word family explorer tool is something you might really enjoy.
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The upgraded version lets you walk up and down a family tree and explore connections and new vocabulary in a really smooth way.
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I explain it further in the article. It's really cool, so do check it out.
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Then, we had a new episode of Prefix Verbs Explained, this time with the verb ausschließen, and we talked about when it means to exclude and when it doesn't and how the two verbs are more similar than they seem.
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And then, last week, I had a new round of the quiz series on German idioms and expressions, where you can try to guess idioms from context and find out why they mean what they mean.
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And then...
I became a dad :).
For real.
Little Mia joined us on August 6th, a lion with a full mane already (seriously, she has so much hair). She is sleeping right now next to her mom right now and it's the absolute cutest, nicest and friendliest baby I have ever had. Which is... one. I only had one.
But yeah, I'm super duper happy, I feel like I already deadlift more, swim faster and can walk better, simply because the relaxation in the body that that baby has rubs off on me.
So the coming weeks I'll change a lot of diapers, cook plenty of food for mom (I'm quite the cook, actually) and I'll do lots of cuddling.
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And when they sleep, I'm at the gym, out for a swim or I'm going to be right here at the computer working to make German easier and more fun for you.
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Can't wait for any of the above, but for today, I'm out.
Gute nacht und bis bald!
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