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If you want to study in Germany, you can't escape the language.
Some students choose to go abroad to study language classes, by the way, in foreign Caldford or DSH, there are also students, more willing to stay in China to learn German. In general, learning a language abroad or at home has its own pros and cons. When studying in Germany, the grammar will be weak; when studying in Germany, the spoken language will be slightly worse.
Unlike everyone, I worked in China for 3 years and then went to Germany to study, and during these 3 years, I worked as a German teacher in a city in Sichuan Province. I have seen some unfair treatment in German training schools and learned about their usual tricks.
First: Audition lessons and real lessons are not the same thing at all
When consulting a German-language training school, the teacher will arrange a so-called audition course for you. I recommend that you don't go to such a trial class, because this is a course specially prepared by the teacher for admissions, and it will definitely be quite good. But when you officially go to class, you will find that the course you read and the course you audition are very different.
So what to do?
We can go to the school to randomly choose a class, feel the teacher's teaching style, professional level, do I like this teacher's teaching style? Although, at the beginning, everyone's German is not very good, and the judgment of the teacher's professionalism is not very accurate, but you can make a very in-depth understanding of the teacher's teaching style and know whether you can learn with the teacher.
Second: Use the discount of all possibilities to prompt you to sign up for work
Don't be fooled by the preferential conditions offered by the school, many German training schools will give you crazy discounts because you don't sign up. However, if you choose a bad school because of the discount, it is very unworthy!
Since we are going to study abroad, the money must be prepared first and a certain estimated cost should be made.
If you choose a not very good school just because it is cheap, it will invisibly slow down your study abroad progress, waste time, and even cause a situation of "re-choosing another German training class".
Three: Completely Chinese teaching, which caused you to have difficulty adapting to a student in Germany before I met, who was completely Chinese teaching when he learned German in China. When I arrived in Germany, I was supposed to take class B1, but in the actual class, I found that I couldn't understand what the German teacher was saying.
Because when he was learning grammar, he was teaching with Chinese, and when he arrived in Germany, he could not understand the "grammar" expressed in German by the German teacher. Therefore, when choosing a German teacher, we must try to ask the teacher to speak German as much as possible, not just to teach words and grammar, especially not to learn too much Chinese express German grammar.
In addition, choose German language training schools with foreign teachers whenever possible. Foreign teachers will be very helpful to you in terms of oral expression and frequency, try to listen to what the foreign teacher says, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, this is a process of time accumulation, it will definitely get better and better.
However, in foreign teacher classes, we must cherish the time to talk with foreign teachers. Try to use German as much as possible, dig out your vocabulary and foreign teachers for dialogue, and conduct a listening and speaking training.
In March of this year, I completed the German C2 exam in Munich, 89 points in speaking, 85 points in listening, 83 points in writing, reading, because of the time relationship, I did not achieve a good score, almost around 69 points.
Here are some tips for learning German. In particular, if you are taking German courses in China, your speaking and listening must be strengthened.
Listening: Listen to German radio, German songs, and German newscasts on YouTube, which can be used as some listening material. Don't limit yourself to the kind of listening questions you train for exams, if you're going to study in Germany, what you need to do is be in your daily life and you can apply it freely.
writing:
First: write an article a week, I don't think you need to write too much, because I think the article can have a routine, some more routine sentences can be in, and basically can be used in each article
Second: Find a native German speaker, or a teacher who is very good at German, help you correct the grammar and expression errors in your articles, and then accumulate over time, you will have your own style in writing. No matter what kind of article you encounter, you can handle it with ease. For example, more formulaic, patterned, routine sentences can be accumulated, how I started, how to establish the argument of my argumentative essay, how to end, these can be routine.
colloquial:
Communicate with as many people as you can speak German, and be good at finding opportunities. In my personal experience, I used to be an Au Pair and lived in a German family this year, so every day is In German, and then I am currently at home and every day is also In German. Therefore, if you learn German in China, you really have to seize every opportunity to practice speaking.
Read more articles, you can silently talk to yourself, record the voice, and then go back to listening to it yourself, you may hear some questions, but this way, only to students with a slightly higher German level.
Finally, I wish everyone a quick test for TestDaF or DSH and be admitted to the ideal German university!