In one of my previous blog post, I did write about Languages and my experience! were I have said, even after spending 100 thousands of Indian rupees, 850 hours of German learning, I cannot speak the language with self confidence. Though i know that self confidence depends on an individual, the way i have learned German and the environment were i have learned, not given me a free environment to speak the language without any fear.
If one ask me why? and any specific reasons:
I would list out some valid reasons….
1) I learned German considering it as a alien language not as one another human language.
2) Never learned it as a just another language, which is used for communicating and conversation!
3) while learning, speaking skill was not emphasized, moreover speaking grammarless German was prohibited!
4) Contradicting! it was said that the Communication/Conversation should be of a perfect grammar to say it as one language. But personally I feel, grammar/language is not a must to express most of your the day to day conversations.
5) Had no opportunities to interact in free environment, either at home, public place, and friends circle etc!
6) Mostly there was a difference in pronunciation between teacher to teacher, because of being non native speakers, hence most of my pronunciation was/is wrong, prudently that controlled my self confidence.
My suggestion when Learning a Language!
Basically, one need to follow the child tactics and boldness to learn and speak a language! my daughter Vishvashri, just about 4years, studying LKG in a defense school learnt communicating Hindi very fluently, moreover the way she pronounces Hindi words, one would surprise; how did she learn in just 6 months with a clean and neat pronunciation. Surprisingly, she is not being taught Hindi language, what she is learning from her curriculum is the English Alphabets, Rhymes
(English and Hindi).
Not surprisingly, the major difference is that the class teacher is Hindi speaker by native.
In conclusion context, the purpose for learning and purpose of teaching makes a difference: like learning for certificates, learning as a hobby, learning a culture, learning for job and learning for teaching!
Any case, try to spend your full effort in speaking a language very boldly, with mistakes, fun and no linguistic grammar. To do that, you certainly need an environment where importance given by the institute for spoken at least for couple of months and gradually end up with all types of grammar.
Bin ich sicher?
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Devaski