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As the author of the post, I do agree. I do find it kind of sad as well. Sometimes life gets in the way, and you find it hard to motivate yourself. Change needs
by shinryuu 2y ago
As the author of the post, I do agree. I do find it kind of sad as well. Sometimes life gets in the way, and you find it hard to motivate yourself. Change needs to begin somewhere.
However, I'm not a native English speaker, the other languages I speak is Japanese and Swedish.
- eigenspace 2y agoI can totally empathize with finding it hard to find the motivation for something like this (despite being reflexively quite judgemental), and I wish you luck / success in your learning journey! I suspect you'll find that between your knowledge of English and Swedish, you'll discover a lot of connections to those languages in German that may make it easier and maybe even fund to learn the vocabulary. The grammar will remain a pain in the butt, but at least once you get the vocabulary down, you can move onto more stimulating learning material than flash cards. > However, I'm not a native English speaker, the other languages I speak is Japanese and Swedish. Fair enough, Maybe I should just change my complaint to a complaint about the ubiquity of English. Or maybe it's just a silly complaint any way I slice it, but it just sometimes feels bad to me to see English everywhere (even though I am a native English speaker myself)
- shinryuu 2y ago> but at least once you get the vocabulary down, you can move onto more stimulating learning material than flash cards. I think that's the plan, and also get a feeling that you're making some kind of progress. A couple of weeks ago I had a meeting with a German person that spoke Swedish, and I really stumbled my way through the little German I know. Very painful. I hope increasing the vocabulary with example sentences will broaden that and give me somewhat of a confidence boost. You've got to start somewhere..