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FREE GERMAN TUTORING, STARTING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
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19-11-2015 7:03pm#1My boyfriend and I are making a German course (he's a native German speaker), and we need a test-student.
We start from absolute beginner, so ideally we're looking for someone without any experience with German.
(If you have some vague memories of classes in school, that's not a problem.)
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We have about thirty hours of lessons written so far.
It's totally possible to spread the lessons over many days, like an hour a day or whatever.
But one of the major points of the testing is to make sure that the lessons are fun/easy/exciting, even when squashed into as many hours a day as possible.
Basically, if you're the kind of person who has the mental energy to binge-read a great book, or binge-watch a good show, then you should have the energy to binge-learn with our German lessons.
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So we're looking for someone who's free to come in for several hours a day, several days in a row.
(We'll do one short session first, so you can see what you're getting into.
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So basically, if you're interested, all you have to do is:
- come in
- lie on the couch
- listen and talk in English and German
- be able to stay and do that for a whole day, for as long as you're having fun
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We'll take some "power breaks" every couple hours.
Have some tea, or go for a ten minute walk or something (we live near the People's Park).
)
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Also, we're going to make a video recording of all the teaching so we can show people like:
"See, this is how the lessons start, with the student saying simple sentences like this..."
/jump forward
"Here's an hour in. See the kind of stuff the student can do now..."
/jump forward
"Here's another hour in. Notice how they can now say more complex sentences like *this*..."
etc
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Sound interesting to anyone? Send us a PM!
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(P.S. Note to anyone with allergies: we have a cat.)0
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barraseaclaid wrote: ».... when it comes to learning a language, I'm sure people want to retain a certain amount of the info they learn ....
Ah, sorry, I think you've misunderstood...
We've *already* tested our lessons -- we mainly just need to *record* another student as a *demonstration*.
Our last test-student retained *everything* we taught them at the end of each day, because they were actually speaking and understanding full sentences the whole time.
People are *amazed* when they see just how much any normal person can learn in a single a day if only the lessons are *structured* the right way.
That's why we need to make a video.
They couldn't believe it if we just told them, so we need to *show* them.
Doing as many hours as possible in as few days as possible isn't *necessary*, it's just *possible*, when you actually know how to teach right, and it adds more punch to the demonstration.
If you know anyone who does not know German and might be interested in learning, please do direct them here. Thanks!
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