My German Learning Story: How & Why I Learned German - German Learning Tips #8 HD

In this video I talk about my experiences learning German in high school and college and my trips abroad. I talk about the impact each had on my German learning and what I did to get better in German. Links mentioned in the video Blog about why to learn German https://sites.google.com/site/herrantrimsgermansite/blog/blog-archive/whygerman Stewardson-Strasburg High School Website http://www.stew-stras.org/ My high school track record http://www.sscusd.k12.il.us/Kelley%20Mullaney/track%20page_files/Page651.htm Stewardson-Strasburg High School on a map https://www.google.com/maps?q=stewardson+strasburg+high+school&ion=1&espv=2&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.&bvm=bv.96782255,d.b2w&biw=1280&bih=634&dpr=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=RX6NVafxKYv3sAWMlIK4Ag&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg Stewardson, Illinois website http://www.stewardsonil.com/ Strasburg, Illinois website http://www.strasburgil.com/ GAPP Website http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/gapp/enindex.htm?wt_sc=gapp Breitungen on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitungen Werratal Gymnasium Schwallungen Alumni page (click on “USA-Reise vom 18.03.-06.04.2005” to see pictures of the Germans at my school and some local sites) http://wtg-homepage.alumni-wtg.de/ Website for the school that is now where Werratal Gymnasium Schwallungen used to be http://www.pmg-schmalkalden.de/ Toilet Paper Factory Website http://www.sofidel.it/eng/werraPapier.php Erfurt Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt Wartburg Castle Website http://www.wartburg-eisenach.de/frame_st.htm Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam http://www.potsdam-tourism.com/detail/id/10215/theme/a-z.html Brandenburg Gate Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate East Side Gallery http://www.eastsidegallery-berlin.de/ Youth Hostel in Wiesbaden http://www.djh-hessen.de/jugendherbergen/wiesbaden/?_rc=1 Cahokia Mounds Website http://cahokiamounds.org/ Eastern Illinois University http://www.eiu.edu/ Grocery Store where I worked http://www.martinseffingham.iga.com/ Tutoring at EIU http://www.eiu.edu/success/tutoring.php Stammtisch at EIU http://www.eiu.edu/language/german-activities.php Getting Fluent in a Foreign Language without a Study Abroad http://www.thepolyglotdream.com/do-you-need-to-live-abroad-to-learn-a-language-guest-post-by-jana-fadness/ DAAD Scholarship Opportunities https://www.daad.org/scholarship Improvisation Group “Gorillas” website http://www.die-gorillas.de/ Article About the Film version of the Mein Kampf Play we went to see http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/mein-kampf-adaptation-making-a-farce-of-hitler-as-a-young-man-a-748885.html Canoeing in Berlin http://www.tkv.berlin/ Wartburg Castle Picture https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wartburg_Eisenach_DSCN3512.jpg Photo of EIU’s Old Main https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastern_Illinois_University.JPG German Märchen (Stories): https://goo.gl/6J0Gaf German Songs: https://goo.gl/LUAlou German Resource Reviews: https: