29/11/2019
TIPS FOR BEGINNERS
from my experience📝
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A month ago I started studying German with a teacher. At that time I could barely read German and knew how to introduce myself, that was it.
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This week I finally started actually speaking German, and the lessons have at once become much more intense. So it took me 3-4 weeks of very lazy practice to learn to express myself enough to communicate, but this stage can be reached much faster. This is how:
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▫️focus on sentence building. As soon as you ‘feel’ the structure of the language you are able to speak it.
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▫️f**k accuracy. what’s the point of memorizing articles in German/Italian or knowing the subtleties of Russian endings, if you can’t actually say anything?
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▫️don’t get stressed. if you have a good teacher, she or he will try to speak to you in the target language as much as possible, and naturally you won’t be able to understand everything in the beginning. ask your teacher to repeat it again and speak slower. believe me, one day, to your surprise, you will be able to understand what your teacher is asking you and answer appropriately.
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▫️analyze. there must be a way to memorize new words or to comprehend other kinds of information which works best for you. in my case it’s flash cards – old school, but it works!
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▫️don’t be afraid to give honest feedback to you teacher. as we, teachers, work with very different people, we learn to use different approaches, and sometimes we choose a wrong one, especially when just starting working with a new student. explain where you feel like a different way could work better. your teacher will be thankful for it, because we always want our students to feel comfortable with the learning process.
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▫️don’t neglect homework. when you study on your own, at your own pace, you have a chance to embrace all the new information with maximum consciousness.
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And the last one, enjoy what you are doing. Not everyone has an opportunity to study a new language at the moment. But you do!
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Breakfast at my aunt’s and German homework 📷☕️🍊