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Things are starting to click!
I just thought I'd share a mini milestone. I'm at lesson 16 on the first DVD and things are finally starting to click. Sure, before now I could see a sentence in English and completely rewrite it in German no problem but it's taken me this long to finally hear the audio and stop fully converting the words as each is spoken. Now, I can patiently wait till the end of each sentence to know what's going on. For example, in English I am so used to hearing "I want to eat this dish, please" but in German it's spoken like "I want, please, this dish to eat" AHHHH it hurt my brain to think like that but now it's easy. I hear the first part of a sentence and know right away if it's a statement or question based on the order of the first couple words, I pick up a noun in the middle, like suitcase, and then the verb at the end like To Eat or To Buy or To Pay For.
And as if this wasn't enough to make me happy, learning German, even as little as I have, has taught me a TON about my own language. I was not great at English in highschool and so this experience has made me understand things I never knew. Like structures of a sentence and the terms for them. Sure, I knew how to talk like I had smarts but that was just me repeating what I heard and never understood why and in fact the German lessons have taught me to rethink my English sentences LOL.
Vielen Dank!
And as if this wasn't enough to make me happy, learning German, even as little as I have, has taught me a TON about my own language. I was not great at English in highschool and so this experience has made me understand things I never knew. Like structures of a sentence and the terms for them. Sure, I knew how to talk like I had smarts but that was just me repeating what I heard and never understood why and in fact the German lessons have taught me to rethink my English sentences LOL.
Vielen Dank!