Well, I've finished my first legit German book. I've discovered one has to make a tough choice when they come across a new word. I could look it up, write it down, put it in my flaschcard program, learn it to death, and run the risk of getting bogged down as I try to read, or I can just, guess what it means and keep going. I've been leaning more toward the latter approach. It makes reading much more fun, and apparently I will learn it after I've come across the word a few times. I know that this method works, I probably learned more than half of my English vocabulary through my reading, but there does seem to be a difference between learning new words when you know >95% of the words and when you know only 75-85% of them.
Oh well, I'll just look up words that I know I've come across before, and still don't know
I feel like I should begin a list of side-effects of studying German, so let's do it:
-The Desire to capitalize every Noun.
-Unconsciously adopting German spellings for words that are similar in Englisch.
-Adding a lisp-like effect to all words that begin with sp, st, etc
Shönes Wochenende!
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