| Talk, talk, talk. I did a mix of talking together with some basic grammar. Right now I am super fluent in German but still make mistakes. Just the damn articles are a pain. When I hear someone speaking Spanish, my native language, and says a 10 word sentence, everything correct except of an article, I immediately think "oh shit, that's how I sound in German!", haha. Because even if almost everything was perfect, it sounds off. I could have written these words in German but it would have been much harder. As I said, I am much more fluent in German than in English although my English is waaay better. I can read a book and write things down; in German? Hard :o Motivation is really important. I work at Lieferando/Takeaway (courier with the bigass ugly backpack) and I am in charge of showing the workflow to the new hires. It doesn't stop to amaze me how many Syrians who fled the war can speak soooo good. There's all kind of cases. Half of the people hate the country, complain about it and hate the language. So many of them have been here for 5-10 years and their German sucks or just basically doesn't exist. No easy answer but you really have to like the thing and try to talk. Retrieval, retrieval! |