Learning German (and the Power of Twitter)
I've been slowly learning German over the past few years using all manner of audio courses, getting German magazines to read, etc. Progress has been slowwwwwww. So I thought it would be good to find a German tutor to help. All my searches found no one locally that does German tuition.
I even took to following people that posted in German on Twitter. Sometimes I understood the Tweet, but mostly I didn't 
Then, <fx: drum roll> I saw the German Tutor on Twitter and followed them. A little while ago, in a reckless move, or so I thought, I replied in German to one of her tweets. And got a reply!! We had a Twitter chat, and Angelika agreed to ask around to see whether she could find a German tutor in my area. A few days later she reported that she had found not one German tutor that could help. :-(
We had a chat and agreed that we'd have a chat on Skype and if that worked we would try German tuition via Skype! Isn't technology wonderful?
So the day came, Angelika contacted me on Skype and put my meagre German to the test 
Angelika obviously thought I had potential so we agreed a schedule of one hour a week on Skype.
Yesterday, Friday 2 October 2009, was the first of these sessions. Was I nervous? Not sure now as we had a couple of technical glitches that we had to address, but after that everything went well and the hour flew by. I think I learned something. I certainly had fun. And Angelika has found a new way of giving German lessons!
So, if you want to learn German and can't find a tutor locally, look out for the German_Tutor on Twitter or visit her website.
Posted 10 months ago
by Robert Killington
