Timeline for Sentence construction
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| Aug 24, 2012 at 2:41 | comment | added | elssar | The problem with this approach is that while it works if I want to be able to communicate with German speakers, in the course, which has a test, it does me no good. Plus being a little anal about bad English, I don't think I'd be comfortable constructing bad German sentences. | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 9:07 | comment | added | Landei | Of course it's better to know the right sentence structure, but not knowing it shouldn't stop you from talking. It's much more important to to overcome one's inhibitions than speaking correctly. You learn speaking by speaking, not from books, and it's important to simply start with it without worrying too much. And the English-"fallback" might help with this. | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 7:44 | comment | added | Joachim Sauer | I would only use this as a fallback when I really have to communicate something but not as a way to learn a language. In fact going the other direction my English teacher in school used to say "English isn't just German with the words replaced!" | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 21:18 | history | answered | Landei | CC BY-SA 3.0 |