An Old Dog Learning New Tricks

An Old Dog Learning New Tricks

I’ve been attempting to get a handle on enough German to see me through our December Danube River cruise. My daughter recommended Duolingo, so that’s what I’m using. It’s a different approach than the way things were taught during my 2 years of studying the language at UCLA. Grammar isn’t stressed. They probably assume (and not so correctly in my case) that with enough repetition, it’ll sink in.

Lessons are mostly sentences which you either translate from German t...