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Have you been desiring to travel to Germany or your dream job needs you to know German?
For you to speak German fluently, thinking in German is the key and studying German in class won’t help you, because class-taught German is full of grammar rules that have no context.
By context I mean the information surrounding a given word.
Without context, it is very difficult to remember things, because your brain needs an anchor to store new information.
Do you remember what I explained to you on the page of Rule No 1?
For example if you want to know the word dream in German and look for a direct translation you will find the word träumen.
You will remember it for a short time and then forget.
If you however learn the word in a method that provides context, you will probably find something like, “Ich träume jede Nacht“, which means I dream every night.
The difference with the second method is that the word is stored more effectively in your brain than if you only read it’s meaning.
Introducing Rule 2
Don’t focus too much
on grammar!
Don’t get me wrong!
Grammar is of course important. I’m just saying, don’t focus too much on grammar, especially if you’re a beginner.
If you focus too much on grammar, you’ll be like a chef who knows everything about food but isn’t great at cooking!
Who would cook a lettuce?
Let me explain…
When you try to speak, do you
- Start by thinking of something to say in your own language?
- Then you try to translate the words into German?
- After which you try to change the word order and think of the suitable grammar rule?
If that is the case, then I urge you to stop thinking about grammar rules immediately!
This is because over the years, I have met a lot of students who have been studying German for years and were still not able to speak German fluently, even though they were very good at grammar.
You can test what I’m saying this way:
For any native German speakers that you know or meet, ask them to explain the differences between the German cases. I bet 90% of them (who are not German teachers) cannot explain the differences.
Why not?
Because they don’t know them.
Here is an example that always raises questions:
I will go with you.
=> Ich werde mit dir gehen.
=> Dative
I will go without you.
=> Ich werde ohne dich gehen.
=> Accusative
What ??? why does the word ‘you’ change?
Grammar lessons will force you to read rules that leave you with such questions, but if you learn with my method you will learn these differences without having to study boring grammar rules.
Now don’t get me wrong.
While knowing German rules is still necessary to some point, if you focus too much on getting your grammar right instead of trying to learn naturally, you will never be able to speak German as fluently as you’ve always wanted.
And that will cause a number of problems.
To start with, that job that would have changed your life will be gone, and you will end up being the person who learned German but never managed to speak it right.
Which is something you never want.
But you could be asking…
How will you speak German fluently if you don’t know German grammar rules?
Just like an 8 year-old German boy, you don’t need to know any German grammar rules to speak German fluently.
You only need to think in German, just like he does.
But how do you learn to think in German?
You will start thinking in German step by step by finding a method that uses words in context, so that you study phrases and not words. (Remember Rule 1?)
If you don’t have time to look for that, then you can also practice with the Question and Answer Technique that I use in my Mini Stories and TPRS Stories.
An advantage of using this is that my method also enables you to listen and speak back, so that you get corrected if you probably got something wrong.
However, if you try to memorize the German grammar rules, you will fail!
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