Comments on: Judgment Day: Learn German Easily – The Final Report https://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/learn-german-easily-review/ Real Talk on Language Learning Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sam https://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/learn-german-easily-review/#comment-1059696 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 05:53:06 +0000 http://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/?p=2944#comment-1059696 In reply to Ran.

Yes I do agree. I am going to stick with the method because it wasn’t cheap but do agree with you about some of the content. It is at times quite sexist and seems to have quite a large focus on infidelity.

]]> By: Adam.Harzuf https://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/learn-german-easily-review/#comment-54521 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:21:03 +0000 http://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/?p=2944#comment-54521 In reply to Ran.

I would like to buy the course from you, as it’s difficult to afford anything now. I hope you live in Germany!
Send me an email using my name plus gmail.com
Thank you!
Adam

]]> By: Noel van Vliet https://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/learn-german-easily-review/#comment-53109 Sat, 22 Oct 2016 02:05:43 +0000 http://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/?p=2944#comment-53109 In reply to Ran.

Of course, I’ll keep it on the page.

As long as it’s respectful, which yours is, I appreciate your opinion. It only adds to the case study.

Thanks,
Noel

]]> By: Ran https://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/learn-german-easily-review/#comment-53090 Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:34:58 +0000 http://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/?p=2944#comment-53090 I did all of the beginner lessons on Lucas’s website. I loved the way Lucas spoke, how his intonation makes the German stick in your head. It was fun. It was entertaining. I learned a lot. I naively took Lucas’s email personally when he asked why I hadn’t yet purchased his all-in-one packet, was I not serious about German? I paid for the course. But after a while, as I started to get more consistent with studying and to explore multiple resources, the lessons started getting on my nerves. Besides the fact that they are not enough in themselves- this is not a proper “course” that you can follow, it seemed to me that the focus is more on being funny than being helpful. There are lots of stereotypes, sexism, mediocrity, childishness, things I do not want to be heard reading out loud and do not want to spend precious minutes of life studying. I don’t want to read that men like beer, women like chocolate, our grandfather is strong, our grandmother is pretty, I shower once a year, she married an old man who’s a millionaire, a fish can’t talk, do you brush your teeth with the toilet brush? Even if it’s meant as a joke, I don’t want to repeat that “men are always right, women adore men, and the earth is a disk” and do real men cry? I am sorry, but life is short. Yes, even in beginner German lessons. Sure, some of the sentences in are funny. Sure, they are designed to impress German-speaking friends, to have everyone crack up laughing and say, where did you learn that? But some are just plain silly, things you shouldn’t write in a course, things you shouldn’t make hundreds of people study. There is something juvenile about it. It embarrassed me, and eventually it just bored me. I’d rather be doing something else. I’d rather go the traditional way. It’s a shame, because the concept is great, and the reading is great- the words do stick in your mind, and the grammar is absorbed naturally by time and through repetition. But I wish the content were smarter. As a student, I always need to be inspired by the teacher, to look up to them as a person. I care less about being entertained.

I am doing much better with a bunch of other resources, including Coggle and Schenke’s “Teach Yourself” book and stories with CDs from Langenscheidt.

I don’t know if you will keep this comment on your page, but I’ve wanted to speak my mind about this course for a while. Thank you for sharing your own experience.

]]> By: Noel van Vliet https://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/learn-german-easily-review/#comment-17279 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:01:44 +0000 http://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/?p=2944#comment-17279 In reply to Heleen.

Great, thanks for sharing, Heleen!

]]> By: Heleen https://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/learn-german-easily-review/#comment-17277 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:45:35 +0000 http://www.smartlanguagelearner.com/?p=2944#comment-17277 I found very good and free audio material in the podcasts of Deutsche Welle and Goethe Institut. Deutsch Warum nicht 1-4, Radio D and Grüsse aus Deutschland are entertaining and very educative..

Heleen

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