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> the German teachers varied from some very archaic grammar-translation stuff ("durchfürgegenohneum", "ausbeimitnachseitvonzu" etc.) to the ones who seemed to h
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> the German teachers varied from some very archaic grammar-translation stuff ("durchfürgegenohneum", "ausbeimitnachseitvonzu" etc.) to the ones who seemed to have no plan at all.
Native German speaker here: such grammatical structures are really how I think about my mother tongue, thus I do believe these are good exercises: always have the grammar tree in the back of your mind when you speak German "and then speak this grammar tree". :-)
In opposite to English, in German grammar is quite important.
- vintermann 3y agoMaybe it's how you think about it today, but it's not how you learned it, and it wasn't a way I succeeded at ever becoming fluent in it. Grammar is just as important in English, it just hides its complexity elsewhere.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Maybe it's how you think about it today, but it's not how you learned it, and it wasn't a way I succeeded at ever becoming fluent in it. Because of this less efficient learning method, it took a whole childhood to become fluent in German. :-)