I was thinking dedicating 30 minutes per day to reading the Mickey Mouse magazine in German. I've a collection of some 70 issues of it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224892473224 On one hand it doesn't help me much. Long gone are the days when I was dreaming of a German salary working in Germany. I make more working in my own city of choosing from my own country. And now that I have the hindsight, Germans suck at software. Like big time. Like they have a strong industry allright but software is an afterthought. And never in my life have I met a German company hiring for finance. Americans, Brits, Swiss, Dutch, French, Russians, Koreans, Japanese. Worked with/for all and made a lot of money all while enjoying the lifestyle of this: https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wolf.jpg With Germans it's about writing software for chainsaws or car wipers. All while they don't even have free coffee at their offices. Only place in the world where I had to pay 50cents for a coffee while at work was in Germany.