Maybe a little bit too late for the Dativ… but here we go… JokeRS Comedy - S03 - Döner Mit Alles - YouTube
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Without having seen your link, the first thought was ‚mit allem‘
You have to keep in mind that many people only became teachers because they were not capable to do something else. It’s especially applicable to the teachers from the language courses.
The funniest thing is that there are so many language excersises containing logical mistakes when an expected answer is logically wrong. Even the official Goethe and TELC tests have them.
Having STEM education and asking the language teacher to explain you something is like talking to an alien.
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Ah, you’re wrong there. Here “wer nichts wird, wird Wirt” (runs a restaurant)
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“Wer nichts weiß und nichts kann, geht zur Post oder Bundesbahn, wer da nichts wird, wird Wirt.”
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“If you can do, if you can’t teach” is a misquotation of George Bernard Shaw’s phrase “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches,”
Just try one-on-one German language coaching as an alternative, you’ll see it’s a completely different story. I can give you a free, non-binding trial class if want.
Everybody learns different. There’s not THE best for way which is valid for everyone. Everyone just should try new methods till she/he finds hers/his.
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Watch kids TV on (preferably) Swiss TV or (awful high German) German TV - they use simple sentences, simple words, you get visual images of what they are talking about, they speak clearly and it is a great way to learn a language. I learned a lot from watching “Die Sendung mit der Maus”, it was the only thing I could understand back then…
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Not sure what’s “awful” about high German. I recall when I started working in Basel how one particular individual who sat just a cubicle across from me was much easier to understand, or at least to hear the actual words properly, than many others around. Turns out he was from Hanover, which I’ve always believed to be the closest to a ‘standard’ or ‘high’ German.
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We lived in Hanover and I learned most of my German there although I did have a few lessons before we moved there. They liked to tell people that they spoke the ‘best’ German there and I have to admit it was much easier to understand people there than it was in Cologne where we also spent some time.
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I take that comment personally. Having been a STEM trained scientist for twenty years, I became a high school teacher for twenty years. Many scientists are lousy teachers, they do not teach because they can’t. The quality of teachers and scientists varies hugely.
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Some don’t want to teach.
I remember one teacher on his first day storm into the classroom, turn off the lights and then go on a 5 minute rant saying that he’s there because he has to be and outside of class he doesn’t want to hear from any of us as his research was the only thing that mattered to him.
I remember, the exam he set us was terrible. I later learned that he had major fights with the department and he exam was revised 3 times in a back and forth between him and the department telling him to make it easier. In the end he refused saying that he would not reduce his standards.
On the day of the exam, we were all nervous as the question paper was a single sheet (normally a booklet). Within a few seconds of the exam starting, we all looked around each other with a ‘WTF is this’ look. The exam was 3 hours long. It was hard to see how some of it related to the class.
After one hour, one guy handed in his paper and left. The teacher began to review it. I watched him. He shook his head, attacked the paper with his pen making dramatic crosses, the tutted and finally shouted “stop!” in the middle of the still running exam. He then said “I strongly advise that nobody leave the exam early. The person who just left got it all wrong and has zero.” classroom shitting itself intensifies
The results were from that class was essentially a lottery as the results had to be ‘scaled’ to fit a distribution. Thankfully, I got a middling score and didn’t fail the year - it was down to me reading one thing in the textbook that was tested on, but which he didn’t teach in the class.
I’m with you there. It’s a rather sweeping generalisation and insulting to teachers.
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Actually I’ve discovered I can understand a lot of normal TV series, but when not watching. For some reason when I’m watching the movie my mind is too absorbed by the visual parts that it doesn’t bother working with the sound or something like that
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So maybe try audiobooks?
I do listen to audiobooks, Sherlock Holmes for example seems as good as the English version.
Evidently you did not watch :Bernd das Brot" that would have been good.
Remember that a lot of stuff on tv is synchronised in a different language other than the actors use, the lip movements only partially match the words.
Stuff like Tatort is a 100% German production, perhaps check that to see if there’s a difference.