I think you are missing out on the key paragraph here: >Of course, the precondition to this even working is that Anna knows fluent German – sadly something lik

I think you are missing out on the key paragraph here: >Of course, the precondition to this even working is that Anna knows fluent German – sadly something like the The Everything Learning German Book won’t do. She would have to at the very least start studying German in high school in the 9th grade, then go through immersion before matriculating, which requires a bit of foresight for any 14 year old.