With our podcast app, we are able to track your listening time.
You can find your Total Listening Time by clicking on:
- Settings
2. Show Profile
Every 100 hours or so of listening time you can expect a noticeable improvement in your fluency and confidence in speaking.
So every 100 hours of listening to our podcasts it’ll make sense to have a “Growth Progress Review”.
This way you’ll be able to listen to how you spoke before and after so you can check in on your progress.
If you listen e.g. for 1 hour a day to our podcasts this might take you 3-4 months or so (100 hours -> 100 days -> 3-4 months).
So every 100 hours of listening time we’ll record a short audio, 1-2 minutes, for your GPR (Growth Progress Review).
You’ll find this “Growth Progress Review” podcast with your recordings in our podcast app.
Here’s how it will work
At the bottom of this page, you’ll find a voice recorder.
It’s really simple, just click the button “Start recording” and leave a “voice message” which will be recorded.
The first time you click on the “Start recording” button you might need to grant access to your microphone.
But before recording anything, first things first.
You’ll find a podcast, where I’ll guide you on what to talk about in your recording.
While listening to the podcast imagine I’m actually really talking to you. I’ll describe you a topic and then at the end make you a question.
After that, as if you were in a real conversation with me, start recording your answer. It should be just a short 1-2 minute answer.
It’s very important that you do NOT prepare your answer, that you start replying as soon as my podcast ends and I make the question.
Why?
Because we want to get a real, honest recording of what you would say and how you would talk in that kind of situation, as if you were actually talking to a friend in that moment.
Don’t worry about mistakes or anything!
This recording is just for you and your coach (me) :-) and to have an honest authentic impression of your current level of German so you’ll be able to track your “real” progress and compare the “before” and “after”.
Note: I know that you might be thinking right now:
“Manuel, this GPR thing sounds interesting, but… I’ll do it later.”
Please, do NOT leave it for later. Something that takes 1-2 minutes, you should not leave for later because chances are, you’re not going to do it later.
Or as famous auther David Allen puts it in his bestselling book “Getting things done”:
“Any action you’ve figured out that you could actually complete within 2-minutes, you’re better off to that right now than to hang up on it, not do it and put it in the backlog or whatever.
It would take you less than two minutes to do it, but it would take you longer than two minutes to look at it again and review it and reflect on it later on. So this is a pure efficiency factor of the Two-minute Rule.
If it takes less then two minutes, do it NOW!”
So, don’t think about.
Just do it! Nothing bad will happen! It just takes 1-2 minutes!
So, first, listen to the podcast below and then reply immediately after, using the voive recorder below.