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Your problem learning German probably stems from "Deutsche Methode", i.e. throwing you without any preparation into talking in a strange language without explai
by bitL 10y ago
Your problem learning German probably stems from "Deutsche Methode", i.e. throwing you without any preparation into talking in a strange language without explaining anything, not even meaning of words very often. For some reason this is extremely popular and distinguished method in Germany, maybe stemming from German masochism formulated in "if it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count", which you see around here everywhere. More pragmatically it probably brings Goethe Institut much more money than making the language more accessible (which is certainly doable).
- GolDDranks 10y agoWell, there's also another thing: according to empirical research, "explaining things" about language doesn't make you better at that language. The part of your brain that handles language is simply incompatible with that kind of input data. (The input data that makes your brain better at language is comprehensible linguistic input embedded in communicative context. That is, language that is trying to communicate meaning to you, and is simple enough for you to get the rough understanding of that meaning.) Not that it hurts, though.