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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most modern language teaching is "immersive" - ie you are taught almost exclusively in the language that you're learning. It's an approach that's been proven to work much better than the old-fashioned "learn the grammar first" approach. You pick up the grammar by example by listening to and speaking the language, and only then have the formal "rules" explained.
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I agree with your opinion on immersive teaching method. The problem is only a limited type of people can afford it. My friend, teaching English in a Japanese university, used to tell me that we should read more than 10,000 pages of English text to become decently proficient with this language. I have done that and I believe my written English is not so bad. But I speak broken English and have enormous difficulty of understanding films in English without helps of subtitles. I do not dream of attaining a decent speaking capability of the German language. My brain is too old and jammed to process all these word changes real time. But I hope that I can some day achieve skills of reading German books relatively fast with a help of a good reader and writing decent sets of mail and letters in this language.