Should I just give up learning German?
I don't understand a lot of grammar related things, and most of the time when I read I can't understand the meaning, even if I know all the words. I also lose lots of sleep, and it is extremely stressful, because everytime I ask a question, people always assume I know the meaning of grammatical terms. And then I forget them even after I learn them- and many times it feels like my teachers just go out of their way to confuse you. Should I just give up? It isn't fun anymore either, because while I used to enjoy it, I confuse so many words, it isn't possible to ask about them all at once anymore. My friends at school think I'm wasting my time because they all say "Well English is like the de facto language worldwide so, stop caring so much.", which I'm not sure is entirely true.
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Then pick up a couple of textbooks and start doing exercises from them. Post your exercises on Italki and Germans will correct them. You will remember grammar and new words better in this way. But the German textbooks must be simple, just for beginners.
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I'm taking German at school.
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As far as I can see you are going very fast in learning German. It takes a year to learn only nouns, adjectives and a couple of grammar tenses. But you want to learn everything during one year. You must choose a proper textbook where the level of difficulty rises very slowly.
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Okay thanks.
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Hi, Zachary. You sound really bummed and stressed out. I don't know how important German is to you nor am I sure if you should quit or not. However, I've been studying Korean which is completely different when compared to any of the other languages that I do know (English, Arabic, and Spanish). When I feel really unmotivated, feel that my progress is stagnant, or that I'll never learn, I take a bit of a break from the whole studying thing and I listen to general language learning podcasts. They tend to motivate me, ALOT. Two of my favorites are iwillteachyoualanguage by Ollie Richards and the other is SpongeMind by Jeremy and Jonson. Both are free. Also, Jonson is learning German, so you guys have something in common and he does talk about the trials and tribulations of his progress, sometimes, so you may find that you are not alone.
Hope this helps and brightens your day a bit. Good luck. :)
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