Story - Hartwig Distler

08.02.2008
Car signs
Car sings can in Germany be used very well to learn the differences between numbers and characters. We take e.g. NEA - ZA -NEA. "NEA" is
the region from which the vehicle comes. By this you know from where the vehicle comes from. Other examples are "M" for Munich, "B" for
Berlin or "F" for Frankfurt. "ZA" are one or two characters in random order (at least to my knowledge). And then a number, in this case "123". I
have and I learn thereby still letters and numbers together. It is still difficult to me to learn the difference between characters and numbers and
reverse. The beautiful thereby is that the whole is not purely randomly. First the shortened name of the place where the car comes from, then
purely coincidental characters and then a combination of up to four number digits.
That was a perfect thing as long as we lived in Berlin. At the beginning I had to remain standing before each car and then it took some time
until I got all the information I needed. By now it goes already with normal foot speed. But now we life on the country and it is a bit difficult to
"find enough cars". But as soon as I come to a city, I do it again.
Another good exercise is the indication of the date. Thus e.g. 27.04.1967. First you have a number of one or two digits, then a ".", which is
relatively difficult to me. Then again one or two numbers, then again "." and then again four numbers. I is a quite good thing to check an
encyclopedia, which gives a good variation of numbers. And you still can have some variations in e.g. doing the month written in full numbers,
thus e.g. "April".
10.02.2008
Images and Names
I almost forgot this. But I spent a year on this. I spent nearly one year on this to see pictures and to name them. First I say the picture and then
I tried to find the correct name. Since I did not know how to write at the beginning, my wife wrote the names of the pictures on the rear side of
the pictures. At the beginning it was really like I did see the picture, but I couldn't name it. That has taken again very long. After a certain time, I
viewed each day 600 pictures. I can't remember how long it took, but at the end of doing that it took me about 30 minutes to see and correctly
recognize all pictures. Here a pair of examples: