Sean Mountcastle
Coding, tech, living abroad, travel, hiking, vintage plastic bricks
For the past six weeks I have been taking super-intensive in-person B1 German lessons. I studied A2 German for two years from Fall 2018 through Spring 2020, but then COVID came and I also became incredibly busy at work (first with BlockFi and then with Y Media Labs). I did an online test prep course in the Fall of last year (which helped me pass the A1/A2 language test that I will need to apply for permanent residency), but that was just a refresher and didn’t cover any new material. So it had been three ye
When I found myself suddenly idle at the beginning of May, I realized that I had been granted an opportunity to continue my studies. I decided on a so-called “super intensive” German course that would cover the entire B1 level of German in just six weeks (with three hours of class every weekday). The language school location was not the best for me, but the closest schools offered nothing comparable. So for the last month and a half I’ve spent three and a half hours each day commuting to and from the langua
Sean Mountcastle