I haven't progressed past lesson 3 in Perfectionnement Allemand. I think I was shadowing the audio pretty well last night driving home and I was planning to do it just once more to call it "done". That hasn't happened yet. I'm just being too much of a perfectionist! Well, writing this has inspired me to do it pretty soon and call it done :-)
There was some better news when I did the second question of Lesetraining B2 (if you'll recall, the first question I tried didn't go very well for me). I was able to read it pretty well without needing to look up and words and I could answer all the questions pretty easily. I didn't know every word, but I was able to work out any gaps pretty easily, and there weren't many. This might be indicative of the type of question. The first question required you only to match up a short description of a group of students with a list of ads for plays. Perhaps this is deemed easier than the second style of question, which had a few different parts and is probably deemed to need more discernment to answer rather than just matching keywords. And that may be true. It is also possibly the case that I found it much easier because I was already quite familiar with the content about Ötzi the frozen mummy from the copper age. In any case, I plan to add the few words I didn't know to my Anki list and then try the next question. Perhaps not in front of the TV this time :-)
Speaking of that book, I just noticed that the link above has a link to sample pages and listening samples, but when I opened it up I discovered, to my great joy, that it is a PDF of all the answers! How awesome is that! Here I was, thinking I could never know the answers, and they were out there all along. This is going to make the book much more useful! I marked my first two questions and I got all the answers correct, so I'm off to a good start (if I ignore the fact that I wasn't sure/didn't know at all 80 words from the first reading question!).
And just to make it easy for anyone searching the internet for these answers, I'll repeat myself. This link contains ALL THE ANSWERS for Lesetraining B2: Leseverstehen in Progression bis zum Goethe-Zertifikat B2.
One final note - I recently received a long email from my former German teacher in Frankfurt. We correspond semi-regularly, and she has been very helpful, completely out of the kindness of her heart, which I must say I greatly appreciate considering that it's something she normally gets paid for! This letter was quite long, and on a variety of topics, and I look forward to replying to it. One thing she did to be helpful for underline words and phrases that she probably considers to be at the next level I need to learn to progress towards my goal of completing the Goethe-Zertifikat B2 exam, or maybe just more generally to be able to interact in German competently. How nice is that! And all this at a time when her website she uses to sell her children's books, and language learning books, has been hacked by a human from the other end of the spectrum of human kindness. Hopefully she'll get it back online soon, and perhaps some of the readers of this blog will buy some of her entertaining children's books (or any of the other books she sells on her site), to help them get off the ground in German, or to read to their children, etc. Check it out over at Khorshid Verlag (not an affiliate link or anything, and currently still offline due to the hack) and see if anything appeals :-)
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