{"id":532,"date":"2012-01-13T23:18:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T04:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2012-01-13T23:18:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T04:18:54","slug":"german-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/532\/german-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"German Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"position: absolute;overflow: hidden;height: 0;width: 0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xn--h1aafme.net\/%E8%EA%EE%ED%EE%EF%E8%F1\">&#1041;&#1086;&#1075;&#1086;&#1088;&#1086;&#1076;&#1080;&#1094;&#1072;<\/a><\/font>This week, Jess pointed out to me &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2012\/01\/learning_german_online_for_free_the_amazing_courses_by_deutsche_welle_.html\">An Invisible Woman Taught Me German<\/a>&#8220;, a story in Slate about German Language learning via the Deutsche Welle organization.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote: &#8220;It\u2019s basically a Teutonic Scooby-Doo, with overt sexual tension among the young mystery-solvers. They investigate weird occurrences like crop circles, Beethoven\u2019s ghost, and a Hamburg shark. (As in Scooby-Doo, you\u2019ll see the ending from 1.6 km away.) When they get stumped, they query their talking computer Compu, who has impossibly advanced speech recognition, yet for some reason still whirrs and clicks like a 1970s adding machine. Sometimes a spooky talking owl named Eulalia lends a hand, flapping in on a cloud of horror movie sound effects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How can you beat that for foreign language learning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#1041;&#1086;&#1075;&#1086;&#1088;&#1086;&#1076;&#1080;&#1094;&#1072;This week, Jess pointed out to me &#8220;An Invisible Woman Taught Me German&#8220;, a story in Slate about German Language learning via the Deutsche Welle organization. My favorite quote: &#8220;It\u2019s basically a Teutonic Scooby-Doo, with overt sexual tension among the young mystery-solvers. They investigate weird occurrences like crop circles, Beethoven\u2019s ghost, and a Hamburg shark. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}