Want more practice? Try the following:
-Take post-it notes and start labeling everything in your room in German.
-Change the language of your email account.
-Make a notebook of German found in "daily life," for instance,
directions on shampoo bottles or computer manuals.
-Listen to German pop-music (see links section.)
-Keep a diary or journal in German.
-Clip newspaper articles dealing with Germany.
-Set your homepage to a German-language site.
-Read a German translation of a book or poem you know well
-Do not speak English with your German professor.
-Use web resources effectively (see links section.)
-Read news articles aloud to yourself.
-Go to a bookstore and try to mentally translate the titles.
-Take the time to learn a new word every day.
-Approach homework as an opportunity to improve your vocabulary...
look up words!
-If you are quite advanced, try taking notes for other classes in German.
-Speak German with members of your German class outside of class.
-Teach someone else in your family to speak German.
-Attend cultural events dealing with Germany.
-Find a pen-pal.
-Take notes, ask and answer questions, and pay attention.
-Take advantage of all opportunities to read or speak German,
in and out of the classroom.
-Come to German Club on Fridays!