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You're way better off just doing some reading (and listening to podcasts/radio if you can find materials easy enough). You'll get correct input, you'll learn th
by xiaoma 10y ago
You're way better off just doing some reading (and listening to podcasts/radio if you can find materials easy enough). You'll get correct input, you'll learn things that aren't translations of things you would already say in English and you'll pick up more of the culture.
For German, there are tons of extensive reading resources (AKA "graded readers") and tons of podcasts for students.
- lacampbell 10y agoGoogle translate for me is good in the pre-intermediate stage of learning. You can shove in groups of words and it's a nice heuristic. But I always keep in mind that it's likely to fall apart on longer sentences - I use it to "Fill the gaps" in grammatical constructs I know. It's a great enabling technique I got to around upper intermediate in another language last year, and found it much less useful at that point. I was able to spot bad grammar and translations myself - I was much better off picking individual words from the dictionary.