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Feb 12, 2024
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From time to time, I’ll be posting my thoughts on the German language, its history and how best to learn it here.

Being new to this style of platform, I’m not sure whether it will be possible to integrate reader commentary but once that is up and running it’ll be nice to get some input.

I hope I’ll be able to get a lot of people excited about their language learning journey as I share my insights from more than a decade of instruction.

Bis bald!

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Maurice Gonzales

Feb 12, 2024

Looking forward to your posts.