Exciting news! The German Tutor, in collaboration with Smart Deutsch, will offer FREE LECTURES on the subject: “How to Learn German”. I will give the lectures myself and, wait for it, they will be completly FREE OF CHARGE! We decided to offer a maximum of two lectures every month and we are looking for locations where they could take place (in Berlin, in other German cities, via streaming… there are so many possibilities!). If you have a […]
In my experience, as a language tutor, I noticed how some wide-spread myths have a detrimental effect on the learning experience of many students. Below I listed for you the five wrong beliefs, which I think are the most common and harmful. 1. Outcomes depend on discipline Belief: “To learn a language is hard work and I will fail if I don’t find a way to discipline myself!” My opinion: Outcomes depend on correctly weighted […]
If a newbie would ask me for the most important thing to know about language learning, I would say it is the difference between learning and acquisition. You will probably already have had the experience that native speakers can’t explain the grammar rules they use. This is a nice example for the fact that: “You do not have to know grammar to obey grammar” (Barry Farber). If you already learned a foreign language, you will also be aware of another fact: […]
If you are studying German, you surely already know that words can have one of three genders: male, female and neuter, which correspond to the determinative articles “der, die, das”. GREAT NEWS! There is a new game to learn Der Die Das, HAVING FUN! TRY IT NOW! The three genders, pose a big challenge for foreigners, especially for those who don’t have genders in their mother tongue. For example in English “sun” and “moon” don’t […]
