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14/02/2025
Der, Die, Das – How to Learn German Genders & Articles - German Learning Lab - 004 Der, Die, Das. What are genders and how to learn them? How to choose the right article when we speak German? In this Episode, Michael and Alessio discuss different techniques to remember the gender of German nouns and how choose the right article every time. They introduce mnemonic techniques and ev...
31/01/2025
Hot to Prepare for German Language Exams - Language Learning Lab - 003 Alessio and I discuss how to prepare for and pass German language exams such as Goethe, TELC, TestDaF, DTZ, DSH, and ÖSD. We have learned multiple languages ourselves and taken many language exams, but most importantly, we have prepared hundreds of students for German language exams. In this third ...
17/01/2025
Shall I Move to Germany to Learn German? - Language Learning Lab - 002 In the second episode of our German Learning Lab podcast, Alessio and I are discussing whether it makes sense to move to Germany in order to learn German faster or whether it is wiser to get to a certain level of German before moving here. What is your experience? Did you move here unprepared or to....
06/01/2025
The Perfect Learning Method - Language Learning Lab - 001 What is the best method to learn German? The two professional German tutors Michael and Alessio try to answer this question in this first episode of the German Learning Lab podcast.
02/01/2025
The Perfect Learning Method - Language Learning Lab What is the best method to learn German? The two professional German tutors Michael and Alessio try to answer this question in this first episode of the German Learning Lab podcast.
01/04/2024
Everybody's distracted by the legalization of Cannabis so nobody noticed a much greater change in Germany: Bavaria's fight for independence - Bairisch dialect now official language in administration, educational institutions and churches. Read more here:
Good Bye Hochdeutsch In a surprising move Bavaria has announced to abolish Hochdeutsch (standard German) as its official language (Amtssprache).
If you ask me, AI is massively overrated with one exception: Suno AI. See for yourself.
The music and the vocals are 100% AI generated. I just put several pieces together a bit. And the lyrics stem from my brain. An AI doesn't know what's a useful phrase for the purpose of learning German just yet. Give it another 10 years ;)
The idea is to get everyday phrases stuck in your memory with a catchy melody and boy, did the AI go to town on this one.
This is the first of 25 songs I'll release over time. Making the videos takes up the most time. Such a song only takes 2-30mins and costs 30 EUR/month. I used to pay a lot more for my music and was limited to the artist's style.
Now I can create as many of these songs as necessary.
If you have suggestions for useful phrases share them with me in the comments. And behave. AI tools can't even handle words like A***h or Scheiße yet. They are still in their infancy ;)
I started teaching because I was young and needed the money. My professional education as a civil servant promised fame and riches, yet I already felt there must be more to life than money and attention so I started using a skill that was almost born with: the ability to speak German. That mental single-cell organism grew and grew and from need a virtue arose. Yet, it wasn’t the language alone that fascinated me, it was the other one’s struggles and joy that drew me in so deeply that I dedicated already nearly two decades to the question of how to make language learning a rewarding and deeply satisfying experience.
Get rid of all the ballast. At first I stripped everything away that was redundant especially in the beginning. The load on my students’ shoulders lightened. Then I created a highly efficient learning structure for the remaining information and finally added quality control the learner could perform herself.
Increased speed is a collateral benefit. While this approach put to its max led to ridiculously speedy results (We reached B1 in 14 days twice), I realized that speed is rather a collateral benefit when working smarter. A language is pretty much like a five course menu which you want to enjoy bit by bit and feel the sensations fill your whole body. Nobody boasts himself with the achievement to have eaten all five courses in less than 5 minutes. Well, if one feels like that, no objection here, but I wouldn’t subscribe to such an approach anymore.
No force needed. Like with excellent food, my approach is filled with love, experience and a secret ingredient, that makes all the difference. No one sane has to be forced to eat delicious food but with German so many learners still struggle with their motivation. How can that be? isn’t is a gift to be able to learn a new language? An exiting journey to the depth of one’s experience and self-awareness that one can come out of only greater and more experienced than one was before.
