Author: Dietrich

Really, I’m a bit slow in up-take. Now I’m using ANKI for pushing forward my English competence because I noticed that my vocabulary is rather weak. Only if I’m in a flow I’m able to grasp for words never have … Lies weiter

It was a quite day. I decided not to take part at our big family meeting in Spandau. My body was full of pain when I went out of my bed, gymnastics was possible but didn’t help as much as … Lies weiter

A gap of some days between my last entry and today, no reason for this gap – besides having pain in my leg and especially in the whole hip area, has been pressing my self-confidence in speaking and listening English.  … Lies weiter

I’m not giving in.
I’m pretty desperate.
I’ve got no ideas left.
Every time I head out, I just wanna turn back right away.
I’m giving up all my plans.
I had to cancel our flights.
We had to skip … Lies weiter

Here am really executed translation game, played with Fabian.

Original

Word ate through the town. The easy wheels of local business ground to the kind of stop that left Main Street dying as they gathered at the edge of the

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Do you want to learn my new game? It’s translation. You can learn a lot if you play this game. What variants  are there? The first one is: translate it by yourself, then put it away. Second, look for a … Lies weiter

I picked up a lot of vocabulary during my reading, and I wrote many of the words down in this book. Naturally, without repeating them, it’s in vain. Now, when I look at the words in this book, I’m often … Lies weiter

Today I used my earphones again for the first time in weeks during my daily walk. Of course, not to listen to German podcasts, but to practice English – to protect myself from losing the fine things I’ve learned over … Lies weiter

Sometimes I’m afraid I’m losing my English because I don’t have time to practise every day.

I neglect pronunciation, I neglect listening, I neglect writing, I neglect struggling with different books, different sentences, and phrases.

All these things happen because … Lies weiter

I have intensified my requests to ChatGPT. I asked it to create a child theme for designing a new header. It only partially succeeded. Refining my prompts might help, but I fear that doing it myself might be quicker.

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To elaborate a new web design for Hus Halligblick, I had to recall all my forgotten knowledge, especially with regard to CSS programming. The lack of knowledge forced me to put in way more hours than I wanted. But after … Lies weiter

Not the best day ever. Being tired from a bad night’s sleep, finally finished off by a nightmare.

In the morning I started trying to solve the problems with the Contact Form 7 plugin on hus-halligblick.de, and in the evening … Lies weiter

After  a day of relaxing, almost a day of laziness, I decided in the late afternoon to have a short walk. I was afraid and curious how it would work. Might the pain start again after some steps, may I’ve … Lies weiter

Why is my English learning process so slow? If  any.

Why is my self-confidence in speaking decreasing? Yeah, 6 months ago it was better.

Why should I be exercising pronunciation every day without progressing? Obviously, senseless.

Why don’t I understand … Lies weiter

Some teachers are very ambitious to teach their pupils a lot of idioms, making is feeling that speaking English without idioms isn’t speaking English at all. This takes away from our self-confidence and makes our effort almost senseless. I’m a … Lies weiter

After the dread of a possible inflammation of the TEP area had vanished, I have started a program for relaxing my thighs, my thigh muscles, massaging away the tension in my thigh muscles. To do it, I used a rolling … Lies weiter

The sword of Damocles over my head has vanished. The examination has taken place, and the result was medically negative, which means it was positive for me: no inflammation takes place in the area of my hip. I was exhilarated, … Lies weiter

I suppressed a little the shock form yesterday by having a new chat with ChatGPT. I asked what about my blood markers for inflammatory after having these problems about one year  without changing that marker and one marker has a … Lies weiter

Thursday I had a X-ray examination with a shocking result. There is the  suspicion that a sneaking inflammatory in the near environment of my TEP takes place. Of course it’s a suspicion but my feeling says the probability is very … Lies weiter

Fabian told and taught me that I shouldn’t try to be the best speaker, to have the best pronunciation. Everybody speaks differently and my goal  should be to get understandable on the one hand, and on the other hand speaking … Lies weiter

I asked ChatGPT give me verbal phrases for “to improve” but this question was totally misunderstood and so it developed following discussion.

Me; I’m very disappointed of you. Up to now, you understood everything what I spoke to you, but … Lies weiter

Again a new app, you would say — but be sure, it’s the most important one in the last 10 months. I’m talking about the Daylydictate app. It gives me a basic knowledge and training in comprehension across all kinds … Lies weiter

In the beginning, some short remarks about yesterday. After a long time, I started again to walk a little longer. The last time, it was very difficult for me to walk, so I almost stopped completely. But I was doing … Lies weiter

The dagger under my clothes bestowed power on me, but made me fluster nonetheless. I was sitting astride stool before I was gingerly going to my enemy. There was a lot of guys who would bear me out since I … Lies weiter

What do I think about the topic of my daily writing? It’s so simple. I read a book every evening and mark some words or phrases I didn’t know until now, or have forgotten, for checking them in the next … Lies weiter

It’s a long way to find the right pronunciation. I have to move my tongue into some extreme positions. A couple of them I have never used until now. There seems to be a big difference between tongue movement in … Lies weiter

I have the impression that, lately, I’ve pushed away my efforts to write diary articles. One of the reasons for this is that my health state is not the best. It has diminished in the last days, especially after my … Lies weiter

Let’s talk about the BoldVoice app again, because I’ve bought it now—not just the restricted version, but also the full one. I was really convinced by this app because its pronunciation correction has been quite good, and over the course … Lies weiter

Let me speak about yesterday. Let me speak about my health condition. Let me speak about the political situation. All these things are passing through my mind. But at the moment, I don’t have the strength to write everything down … Lies weiter

If I look at my Komoot recordings, I get the impression that I had made a good development from the beginning of June up to June 16th, with its peak walk of more than 5 kilometers at a speed of … Lies weiter

Some months ago, I installed the Woodpecker app and have used it occasionally but didn’t take the time to get familiar with it. Now I’ve found that it’s a good app for training comprehension. There are short videos of all … Lies weiter

I want to write fluently, but not fast. I will care about grammar and idiomatic, while I am writing. And afterwards, I will check it for good English and correct it to a better English, or only paraphrase it. As … Lies weiter

Fluently writing about music cannot be simple, because it’s not simple in German either. Neither do I have suitable vocabulary for it, nor a well-founded knowledge of music at all. Today we have again a concert evening with Joana Malwitz … Lies weiter

What’s the difference between fluently speaking and fluently writing? I think it’s obvious. Nevertheless, let me philosophize about it. Let me ask:  where are no  differences between them? Both mean doing something without stopping, without looking for vocabulary, without long … Lies weiter

Certainly, it’s a great challenge to speak fluently about a subject, about a topic, which I didn’t work out before and I didn’t prepare any vocabulary for it. My topic today is to speak about the situation in the Near … Lies weiter

Let me talk about the sentence “You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall back to the level of your system.” If I try to interpret this claim by itself without any context, then I can come

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My walk yesterday was accompanied by my grandchild Lea. It was a long walk, but not as long as the walk before. I was a little exhausted, so I was afraid of a long walk. All the time we were … Lies weiter

The best way to train is to forget yourself.
Don’t think about what you have to do every day, what’s happening, or what problems you have.
Forget yourself — but only think about yourself. Don’t think about everyone else either. … Lies weiter

Very early in the morning, I got up for my first official training in my new rehabilitation center for recovering from my hip problems. I tried a lot of equipment there, which I was already acquainted with, but also some … Lies weiter

Today I managed again a very big round of about five and a half kilometers. And in contrast to the former round I had already done, it was much faster. I was going at a speed of five kilometers per … Lies weiter

Today I want to speak about the Russian-Ukrainian war. The war started in 2022, on the 24th of February in the morning, and began with a lot of attacks by airplanes and rockets, and so-called wide-ranging rockets. But after some … Lies weiter

During the last day, I’ve been a little astonished that I’ve been stucking in my English learning process. I found out that I have got difficulties not only with understanding, not only with deliberately listening to the text and understanding, … Lies weiter

Today I was looking for a new possibility for physical exercises to build up my muscle power, stabilize my gait, and put me in a state where I can walk long distances without tiring or exhaustion. My hairdresser told me … Lies weiter

I explained to you in my last entry my difficulties understanding casual English. That means my pronunciation isn’t the best, and I told you that my grandkids were able to understand everything, while I was only able to understand half … Lies weiter

It has been a long pause since my last diary entry. There are some reasons for it. I have been spending a lot of time on pronunciation exercises with Rachel. Rachel is an excellent teacher, but I am a little … Lies weiter

I want to talk a little about monolingual dictionaries. The background of this discussion is, of course, the method of the book Fluent Forever. That’s on the one hand, on the other hand, it’s my behavior looking in a monolingual … Lies weiter