Shadowing Practice: How Long Does it Take to Learn German? - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hello everyone, we want to give us a question today, which you have already asked very often, namely, how long it takes to learn German?

Eric, you are a teacher of German, you have often taught teaching and concept, and I ask myself, can you answer this question even pauschal?

Yes, it would be great if we could answer this question so quickly and eindeutig beantworten könnten, können wir aber leider natürlich nicht.

Sprachen lernen, das hängt natürlich von ganz verschiedenen Faktoren ab, wie schnell das dann eigentlich geht.

Zum einen ist es die Zeit, die man im Alltag hat.

Dann ist auch noch wichtig, wo lerne ich die Sprache überhaupt?

Lerne ich die in Deutschland oder Schweiz oder in Österreich oder lerne ich die im Ausland?

Und am wichtigsten ist wahrscheinlich die eigene Motivation.

Also ich brauche ja ein Ziel oder einen Grund, aus from which I learn the language, and if I don't have it,

it's probably quite difficult with the effective and slow English learning.

There are also different factors that influence the time, also how long you need to learn German.

And even if there is no pauschal answer, we want to look at what factors affect your language learning?

And we start now with a few of you to hear.

We asked you, since when learning German?

And when did you have the first time that you felt like now I can understand myself in German?

How long have you learned German?

Ah, since five years.

How long have you learned German?

More than ten years, I would say.

A few years, but intensively since two years.

How long have you learned German? About a year.

Also, I've learned since seven years, I think, but I really need to learn German for a long time.

My mistake was, at the beginning, everything was for me in English.

Also, my friends are from different countries and we speak English together.

And then I worked in Startups and everything was in English.

And I think, you need a little bit of love for this language, that was always a battle for me.

But after about five years, I think I have it now and everything is easier.

When did you feel like my German is good enough enough, so that I can understand, so that I can speak German?

Yes, it comes to mind how intensive you learn the language.

For me personally, it takes about eight months.

So I came to Germany and then I started learning German, and then I was in a school intensive course.

And then we just started, because we had to speak German.

Our German teacher could not speak English, and so we started to speak German.

But then Michu with English and also handsprache.

And then we started to speak German.

And I think it's a bit easier to speak with people in German

if you know that other people can't speak perfectly in German and then you don't have this fear.

Yeah, exactly.

That's the situation where you are just happy that you understand.

And then you don't care.

Yeah, I think that was in between six or nine months after I started.

Because I always tried to speak with people in German and I didn't have any fear to have on German speaking?

Honestly, it is difficult to remember exactly the time, but I think...

Can you remember yourself not to remember a story, where you thought...

Yes, that was after I started my education and then I was forced to speak with the children and then,

yes, that was already the time when I built my own self -awareness.

I have seen so many easy German videos

and then I was here in the Meetup and that was in May this year, I think.

And then I spoke the whole time German, without thinking too much.

And I thought, okay, I have it.

Also, I have it achieved.

And now I do my work.

And that is for me a total big step.

And that freut me.

Erik, what I found interesting about these answers was how different it was.

Some of you people learn very intensively German and can start to speak after a few weeks or months.

And other people don't have so much time to focus on German

and then actually need several years you before they really have the feeling, now I can talk to myself.

Yes, it shows that if you have a goal or a reason why you learn German,

that then it's easier to learn German.

If you learn for the university or for the university, then you have this great goal and can work on it.

But there are also people who have this great goal so to say, not have and they for themselves, maybe as a hobby, they learn German,

without that they have something to achieve or have to do it.

And if you're to these people, then it's, I believe, it's important that you set yourself up to your learning process.

That can be said that you're going to say that you're going to say that you're going to restaurant on German,

or that you can also say that you're going to and then step -by -step work on it.

That's a super tip.

We want to look at the time again, because it's not so that you can't do anything.

If you go to a school and visit a course, then there are certain days for certain levels.

And I want to know from you, Eric, how long does it take, until you have a B1 -Niveau erreicht?

B1 is the third level level, where you can speak.

I have this for you with the mathematics.

Let's take an example, you make an Abend course, that's about two times two hours per week, and you want to achieve B1,

then it takes about 100 weeks, so that's pretty long, that's about two years.

Wow.

On the other hand, if you want to make an Intensiv course, and you want C1 to achieve, that would be your goal.

Then I can give you good news.

Theoretically, you could in 7 ,5 months with an Intensiv course, 30 Stunden per week, C1 to achieve.

But that would probably make the most possible.

That's crazy.

Also man sieht richtig, wie unterschiedlich diese Zahlen sind und es hängt wirklich davon ab, wie viel Zeit ihr einsetzt.

Macht euch also keine Sorgen, wenn ihr jetzt sagt, ich habe gar nicht so viel Zeit, ich kann nicht jeden Tag acht Stunden lernen, ich kann nur mal drei Stunden am Wochenende machen,

dann ist es auch völlig okay, wenn das Ganze ein bisschen Zeit kostet.

Wir machen eine kurze Pause und in dieser Pause will ich mal schauen, woran Manuel gerade arbeitet.

Du, ich bereite gerade meine Aufgabe für die 30 -Day -Challenge vor.

30 -Day -Challenge?

Das klingt aber interessant.

Was ist denn das?

Ist das auch für unsere Zuschauer interessant?

Ja, wir wollen euch im Januar motivieren, ein bisschen Deutsch zu üben jeden Tag.

Ich zeig dir mal, wie das konkret funktioniert.

Jeden Tag posten wir eine kleine Aufgabe.

Letztes Jahr hast du an Tag 3 zum Beispiel gefragt,

what you like to eat and then also um a photo and a little text.

So you get every day a small task from us, 5 -15 minutes a day, to practice your German.

Look, Manuel, I ate tacos in Mexico.

Lecker!

We are also here with the 30 -day challenge.

Everything you have to do is become a member of Easy German.

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This is great, because you will get a lot of other things to learn German.

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And the link for this is here in the description below, there are all the links.

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Back to the topic, we have already learned that it can vary from many factors, how fast you learn a language.

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One of the most important factors is time.

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You can see how much time you have, faster or slower progress.

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Motivation is also very important, we have talked about it.

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And next we want to look at the methods, because there are different ways to learn German.

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We asked the people at our Easy German Meetup in Berlin, which techniques and methods they actually use German.

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And it was really interesting to see how diverse these techniques and methods are.

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Let's go everything to produce, what I've already done in the video.

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That's what I learned very well.

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That's a great idea, yes.

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I think I learned it myself and I had a lot of motivation for it.

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And I always learned, I would watch videos and always do it again, because people speak.

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I always wanted to have a good accent, so to speak, how you speak.

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And always to speak with other people to speak.

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Also, don't have any fear.

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The best method for me was my trip to Germany.

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In Poland, you have to do everything correctly, so that you have to do the grammatical and that you have to do with Dativ and with Akkusativ.

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But what really is important in Germany is that you speak.

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Also, it doesn't matter if I make a mistake or not,

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so far the people can understand me, that's all.

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I've tried so much, and I think it's a mix of everything.

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Also, videos to watch, films to watch, music to hear and also to write,

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that's also my problem, but really like a day book or so and everything I think, just to write and also a bit on German.

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I do that of course on Polish, sometimes I do that on English, but if I really speak to myself,

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Maybe that sounds crazy, but then I can say, okay, how is this on German?

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And then I look at Google Translate or so and then I can speak more.

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So maybe a mix for everything.

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I think, just to speak with other people.

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Also, now I use Tandem App and just use other people to speak with other people and then I can just...

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Because now I have no way to speak on the street with other people.

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On work we can speak English.

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And now I've also begun to speak with ChatGP to speak.

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That makes sense.

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I learn so much with ChatGP.

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So give me 50 Sets with this word.

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Now you can also speak with Handy

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and then you can speak with ChatGP and then you can speak with ChatGP What, Schatz?

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In these interviews we saw how different the methods were.

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Some people have studied courses in a school, others have learned completely alone.

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What would interest me, Erik, you as a German teacher, how would you do that?

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Would you say, there are better and worse methods or are all the same good?

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I would say, it comes very on the individual person.

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Also, ich glaube, es geht auch darum, dass man, wenn man Deutsch lernt, dass man dann möglichst viele verschiedene Dinge ausprobiert, denn man muss ja erstmal herausfinden,

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was für einen selber am besten funktioniert.

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Und manche Leute lernen zum Beispiel besonders gut mit Podcasts hören,

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andere lernen besonders gut, wenn sie einen Tandempartner haben und den regelmäßig treffen und für wieder andere ist dann,

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weiß ich nicht, Musik hören und Texte von Liedern lesen besonders effektiv.

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Also das müsst ihr wirklich dann selber herausfinden und das ist dann auch gar keine Zeitverschwendung,

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verschiedene Dinge auszuprobieren, denn am Ende hilft das euch und eurem Lernprozess.

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Was uns jetzt noch am Ende interessiert hat, ist, was diese Leute, die ihr gerade gesehen habt, was die anders machen würden,

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wenn sie jetzt nochmal neu anfangen würden, Deutsch zu lernen.

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Schaut mal rein.

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Wenn du jetzt nochmal Deutsch lernen müsstest, was würdest du besser machen, was würdest du anders machen?

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Already at the beginning to speak with German people and really to work with this fear of working.

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I had so much fear that German is so formal and so much grammar.

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I couldn't really say anything.

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I had everything here in my head, but I couldn't do it.

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Maybe at the beginning would I speak with German people and just be more confident.

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I think it's so controversial, I would like to focus more on the Grammatics, because now I see already,

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although there are already some gaps that I already missed, that would be my tip,

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more on the Grammatics to focus more on the Grammatics learning. That helps, yes.

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Yes, I make

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so many mistakes with grammatik und ich denke weil das ist

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du kommst aus england und engländer haben keine grammatik und ja ja also ich habe ein grammatik obensbuch und ich war

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yes of the world and we always speak English and that helps me not.

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And yes, I would like to have many German friends.

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I think I would start to start with intensive courses,

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to have every day, because I already noticed that it helps.

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So I think I would not have so much time to spend with the Vokabels alone learning.

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Only words without context.

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I would not only learn words alone, but only with context.

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Because all these words that I learned alone without context, I forgot everything.

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So I would start to speak.

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I learned so much about watching, reading and so on.

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But I haven't spoken enough.

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So you should just speak. That helps.

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What I was very interesting about these answers, was that some people said exactly the same thing said,

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some people said they'd rather have started to speak earlier,

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and some people said they'd rather have said they'd rather have started to speak without the grammar to pay attention, and now they'd wish to have more time with the grammar.

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That's kind of funny, isn't it?

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Yes, I would recommend that you combine the different skills of hearing,

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writing, reading, reading, speaking and also the grammatical.

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That's everything together and it greets in one another

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and it makes not so much sense if you just focus on the hearing.

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That should always be a bit of everything.

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And if you want to practice these skills with us,

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then we would like to invite you to join us in the 30 -Tage -Challenge in January.

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There you will also be able to train the different skills.

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You will hear, read, write, write and maybe a little bit speak.

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Probate that out, the link is here.

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We hope to see you with us and thank you very much for the time.

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See you soon!

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