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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4799 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 17 of 180 14 January 2014 at 2:09am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Nice log, Gemuse. I'm surprised i havent found you earlier:-)
It is no wonder you we disappointed under such conditions but you are obviously on a great way to German now. Studio d should be publicly called a mistake and authors should make those shaming photos people usually post with their dogs (instead of "i ate three pairs of new shoes and vomited them on the carpet" there would be "i made one of the worst textbooks ever" :-D). My former boyfriend was forced to use it with his class at high school. Two groups of people, approximately 15 people each and noone was able to put together a simple sentence after two years. The book appeared very unsystematic to me and totally oblivous to basic needs of not only self-teaching students. And as you noted, it doesn''t count with any kind of review, solo work, further practice etc. I am surprised such a faulty overall approach happened at goethe. It is not a cheap language school and it is always taken as the golden standard. Well, i had better experience with gls in berlin. Their courses are far from perfect, i am probably really not a class person, but they are among the best i have ever tried. But you probably dont need any courses at all. At gls, we were using themen aktuell, which is a three levels set i have already writen about a few times and which is awesome both for classes and self teaching students in my opinion. I admire your determination to struggle against your language bubble and i wish you only the best. P.s are you in our tac team btw? P.s2 sorry about typoes, spelling and diacritics, writing on a tablet 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 18 of 180 14 January 2014 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I like the way you think Cavesa 
That is part of the problem methinks. They are considered to be the best so they seem to think only the teachers matter, and since they have best reputation, they must be doing the best thing. Teachers usually have this complex that they are, well, the "teachers" imparting knowledge to students. IMHO they should rather be called "learning facilitators" which makes it clear that they are only facilitating knowledge acquisition; and thus books, supporting material, and the effort put in by students outside of class is of paramount importance. The teacher at Goethe told me the quality of students in recent years has gone down. I wanted to retort back that perhaps that cuz the institute following dumbass books like Studio D is making the students dumber. The Themen Aktuell books are great, I bought them based on your recommendation.
Thanks! I am confused by this tac business, so I said the heck with it all, I will be part of everyones teams, even people who are not part of teams. No worries about typos, and what not, I am not learning English here :P Edited by Gemuse on 14 January 2014 at 9:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 19 of 180 15 February 2014 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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So fell off the learning wagon for a 2-3 weeks. No excuse, Just slacked off all around.
The past week was the A2.1 course test, so did some cramming in the weekend. Now a break from the language course for 2 months, this should actually be beneficial for my German learning, as I can learn the way I want, from the sources I want. I got this comic strip from patrickwilken's blog: http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/ Some cartoons for ya'all to enjoy: http://tinyurl.com/q5mgwsb http://tinyurl.com/ld68mv7 http://tinyurl.com/lmtpprn http://tinyurl.com/of4z3jp Edited by Gemuse on 15 February 2014 at 11:35pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 20 of 180 19 February 2014 at 3:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Came across this entry for the difference between Assumption and Supposition http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_ supposition_and_assumptions A couple of days earlier, also learned about the difference between educe, evoke, and elicit. Also, alleviate vs ameliorate http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/81408/ameliorate- vs-alleviate Edited by Gemuse on 20 February 2014 at 4:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 21 of 180 20 February 2014 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Diffuse, defuse
convince, persuade http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/diffuse-v ersus-defuse Edited by Gemuse on 20 February 2014 at 5:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 22 of 180 21 February 2014 at 7:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Recently bought the book "Deutsch: Scritt für Scritt" (DSFS) used, as a blind buy based on a recommendation I saw on a website. I thought it was entirely in German, but its a German-English text fortunately. Unfortunately, its not as advanced as I had hoped, only A2 level. On the plus side, I am liking it. It has many drill exercises. I would have preferred more text though. But still not bad for under 10 euro shipped for a hardbound book in good condition. I will be using it to practice my active German (I am liking its translating and ask questions format). Another thing I am liking is its use of possessive pronouns right from lesson 1. DSFS: Lessons 1 & 2 Begunungen A1: Lesson 5 pages 112, 113 review 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 23 of 180 22 February 2014 at 6:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Turns out yesterday I had only done lesson 1 of DSFS Today: DSFS; Lesson 2 Begunungen A1: Lesson 5 pages 114, 115 + vokab review of 112,113 The quality of sentences of Begegnungen is impressive. Every sentence and word seems worthy of review. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3872 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 24 of 180 23 February 2014 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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DSFS: Lesson 3 Begunungen A1: Lesson 5 pages 116,117,118,119; vokab review of 112,113,114,115 1 person has voted this message useful |
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