by Lily Mae Martin
Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German.
“Du brauchst dein Licht nicht unter den Scheffel stellen” = “you need not hide your light under a bushel”. Licht by Lily Mae Martin, whose exhibition “Brutally Beautiful” opens this Saturday (May 5th) at Neonchocolate.
As you already know, we’re really trying to learn German. What started as a vague desire not to be the expats with the shittiest Deutsch became one of our New Year’s Resolutions… and along with our new puppy, came a new goal: to be able to speak to six year olds in their own language about how “klein” and “süss” she is. But even with the Daily Deutsches and the weekly tutorials, we still find it hard to get regular practice. That’s where Duolingo, language learning software with a difference, is helping:
If you want to find out more about the story behind Duolingo, scroll down for founder Luis von Ahn’s presentation at TEDxCMU. Aside from his unique mission – using language learning to get 100m people to translate the web into every major language for free – I’ve already been impressed by the private beta version of Duolingo’s German program.
It’s simple, social (connecting to both Facebook and Twitter), works all your passive and active language skills – listening, reading, speaking and writing – and allows you to learn in manageable chunks, marked by a real sense of achievement. Plus, it pulls in real online content which is inherently more interesting than the usual textbook scenarios – so far, I’ve translated texts about Jeff Bridges, Ghostbusters and Nazis! Best of all, it’s totally free!
Duolingo are still gradually inviting new users – sign up over here.
by Barbara Hovens
Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German.
Fernweh by Barbara Hovens is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licence.
by Michelle Last
Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German. Art by Michelle Last.
Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German. Art by Josh Bauman, who draws an daily comic about his life in Berlin, called Caffeinated Toothpaste.
text is a bit faint James!
I think that was a design decision on the illustrator’s part… have you got your specs on?
Yes, that was the idea. It says “Wanderlust (noun) — Untranslatable — A melancholic desire to wander off, Fernweh. A longing for another place, another Epoche, another epoché.”