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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • The history of the Fehrensehturm is fascinating. The guy who got it built basically lied and embezzled government money to make it happen.

    He also wanted to surround the Alexanderplatz park with Commie Block housing. They only got two of the buildings built (fortunately). His full plan included tearing down the Berlin Cathedral, Marienkirche Cathedral, and the Humboldt Forum. Those are all Berlin icons today.




  • I visited a museum today. They had audio guides available. I found they had a guide in a “easy” version of German.

    I am so happy they had the easy (leicht Sprache) guide. I managed to understand about half of the sentences and got some nice in-context listening practice.

    I also started listening to some B1 German YouTube conversational videos and I’m doing okay at times.

    I’ve also got a Scratch Programming book in German. It’s written to elementary school level and it’s great for simple technical language, which is a speciality that I’m going to need soon. Very nice stuff to work with.