I am having such a hard time learning this language, and I feel so stupid-other students are learning it quicker than I am and I´m about to quit.
2007-10-12 09:21:47 · 7 answers · asked by Learning is fun! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's not a competition. It's a quest for knowledge. What you have learned so far, is something you will always remember and use throughout your life. Finish your course - you never know what will stay in. And just think, if you ever go and visit Germany you will have more knowledge than most of the other tourists! (Deutch is German, right? Not Dutch? See you know more than I do!)
2007-10-12 09:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all, do you mean Deutsch (German), or Dutch? I'm assuming you meant German, so....don't give up on it just yet. I had a hard time speaking it my first year, but I'm into my sixth year now and I do not regret taking this language at all and I'm getting a lot better at it. It can be a very hard language at first because of the verbs and the syntax. German is related to English (English is a Germanic language) and both languages share many cognates, and the rules to pronounciation in German are fairly straitfoward once you learn them. Once you get all the rules down, it will be easy.
It's a great language to take if you live in Europe because there are around 100 million speakers there, primarily in Germany, Austria, and Belgium. If you ever plan to come here to Europe, German is the ideal language to take.
2007-10-12 16:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by Victoria the Viking 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, no one said it's easy. And since you live in Germany you shouldn't quit, don't care if the other people learn it quicker, you learn for yourself and not for them. Do you want to live in a country and not understand the language? I don't think so.
2007-10-12 17:50:38 · answer #3 · answered by The baby penguin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep at it and don't be afraid to make mistakes. I took a couple of courses in college and then went to study German in Austria and Germany.
I remember mid-way through the session in Austria, we were to give a speech in German that we had composed ourselves.
Upon finishing, the instructor said (in German naturally) that she hadn't understood much of anything that I had said.
Well ... I doubled and tripled my efforts, spoke, read and listened to nothing but German for weeks on end and excelled in that and in subsequent classes.
I ended up living and working in Germany for nearly a decade. By the end, I was mistaken for a native German.
Its hard and you or I will not be perfect, but the rewards can be great.
2007-10-12 17:06:32 · answer #4 · answered by clairesfather 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have studied German quite a bit but I have a different problem. I'm shy about using it in public. I actually know a lot more of the language than I let on.
2007-10-12 16:52:12 · answer #5 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No never give up, i love this language ive been learning it for 6 months and i'm already semi-fluent. there was a point where i thought i wasn't getting anywhere but now when i look back i've learnt so much. If you truly want to learn this language carry on; its probably only a phase you're going through - like i was! :D
2007-10-12 17:18:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you quit every time someone does something better than you do then you will quit everything.
2007-10-12 16:25:19 · answer #7 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋