Saturday, November 14, 2009

Nick And Noracushions

TONGUE lecture - Lesson with Nathaniel Mc Bride

How I learned German? / How I learned German?


"My earliest memories of learning the German language are equally unhappy. I can still call to mind a particularly grim for lunch before an exam that I spent with a friend while hiking around the monastery of Westminster Abbey by we tried to examine each other about our knowledge of prepositional phrases, both of which we consistently answered incorrectly. are still to this day for me, certain grammatical constructions with the memory of the adorned mittelaelterischen tile floor, we walked through learning, combined. From our textbooks our suffering was only increased that seemed as if they the inevitable boredom of language learning would still make desolate. To my disappointment vierzehnjaehrigen, any relationship or allusion to the war was blotted carefully with them. Instead, they bescrieben the mundane acts of a family who lived in Wuppertal, every day with the cable car started, and the most exciting experience was to have a car accident, but no one was injured in the. The schematic line drawings that they constituted, represents the blandness of her being. I decided as soon as possible the language to give up. "




" Two events have put me off it. One was the discovery that the language, despite their difficulty was learned, namely that joining in this learning even his peculiar, if such perverse pleasures. Maybe just because of its difficulty, I learned German quickly and systematically than French, my first foreign language and at least one that was closest to me, and I was rather slow, messy and acquired by lucky chance. For the same reason but I have learned German many surfaces, and in later years I had to constantly return to the already learned to repeat again. While I scan ahead to French was always kind of struck me like a close German-built labyrinth, which I had to concentrate aware when I wanted to move forward at all. to speak the einfaechsten set was loaded with unexpected dangers and called for the deliberate action of a specific language switching. (...)"

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