I found a Seagate 2TB portable hard drive that holds a lot of my data from 2008 to 2015. Not entirely sure when I bought it, but let's say it's 10-15 years old by now. The data's been backed up and verified in two separate hard discs and the cloud now, so I formatted the drive. Can I still use it as part of my 3-2-1 backup plan or is it done?
As a young mother with a full time job in a fully German office, taking night classes is causing massive stress rashes and making me throw up.
I now have a weekly meeting with a tutor, but instead of "learning German" the traditional way, her task is to hype me up to have the confidence to prepare my presentations and questions in German by myself, to design journaling self-improvement sessions for myself, and to listen to and initiate playground small talk. Each session is largely held in English with a few focused German moments, as the point is to analyze new strategies and practices to try every week. I'd say her job is mostly about building confidence. It's been working so far as I'm actually participating in the office and am having fun with my poetic writing, but I fear that I'm not actually learning the language anymore, if that makes sense? No new grammar, just slowly picking up vocab as needed, not even studying.
Can this method realistically improve my German or should I go back in to the classroom and try to tackle that bridging course to B2 again?