![]() ![]() You’ll see how other students are doing in these tests so you can overcome little by little the fear of speaking by listening to how they are going through the same challenges as you are.You’ll do some quick translations similar to the Verb-Juggling episodes.We'll help you get a feel for how things are expressed correctly by showing you examples and scenarios in which those difficult words and structures are used in context.We'll help you get unstuck by showing you the hidden difficulties in the sentences students made mistakes with.We'll dig deeper into this "gap" and the EXACT grammar and vocabulary that keeps you still stuck at a certain level and hinders you from making progress.You'll learn the "gaps" between what you want to say and what you are able to say, so you notice what you do not know or only know partially when trying to express something.You'll learn things you still struggle with from students at your level and new details of the language from more advanced students.You'll overcome little by little the fear of speaking by listening to students who are going through the same challenges as you are.You'll listen to real-life talk and real-life conversations as if you were talking to a colleague or friend, this way you'll learn the real 80% of words and structures you'll use in everyday conversations.So to summarize, in this 5-step process you’ll basically listen to 3 types of podcasts: It requires more effort to get water from a water well: It’s like having the glass of water still not filled up but trying to get water out. ![]() ![]() Remember our analogy with the water bottle? You’ll start “translating” subconsciously and saying things like:ĭann ich gehe zur Schule. So you’ll say things in German the way you’d say them in English. You’ll start “padding”, which means using the knowledge from your mother tongue, supplying what is known to make up for what is not known. Of course, they resort to the best tool they have at their disposal, their mother tongue. Students are not sure HOW to say something. Now, it’s not so much about being a beginner, intermediate or advanced student. Using simple, easy language and progressing naturally step-by-step as you understood more and more. They talked to you in a way that was comprehensible to you. You listened to the messages of your parents.īut did your parents talk to you like they were talking to each other? In most cases before the first year you didn’t even utter a word.Īnd there is actually not one single baby on earth who came to the world and started speaking right away. When you were a baby for the first 1-2 years you still didn’t speak the language. How you can acquire German the same way you acquired your mother tongue Let’s see what the main difference is between how you acquired your mother tongue vs how you’re trying to learn German. Let’s take a deeper look into why you’re so fluent and confident with your mother tongue as opposed to German. How come acquiring your mother tongue seemed so effortless yet produced such amazing results? It’s actually a very simple idea all of you have already experienced with amazing results.Īll of you somehow struggle with the German language, but at the same time, all of you feel very fluent, very confident with at least one language. The Counterintuitive Secret to becoming more fluent and confident at Speakingīetween the first recording and the second recording Niketa focused on one thing and only one thing, it's what linguists and language scientists call Comprehensible Input. ![]()
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