• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    now I can’t fucking speak German.

    I took German for two years without cheating and I can’t speak German, either. Classrooms are the worst places to learn languages, period.

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      1 year ago

      At some point I switched my games from German to English, my English skills probably improved more in the first two months of doing that than in the 4 years of classroom English I had before then.

      I’ve heard similar from the people who took French or Spanish as ellectives, it seems schools are the worst place to actually learn a language (I’d say including your native one, I learned more about German in Philosophy class than in German class)