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By the end of the 20th century, German had finally secured the status of a world-spoken language. In most schools globally, its study became mandatory, and the teaching methodology began to develop by leaps and bounds. Not everyone could afford to attend courses, which provoked the emergence of the first method of self-study of the German language. Subsequently, many authors have attempted to create an effective German language learning program on their own, but we will focus on the eight most popular ones.<\/p>\n

Schechter Method<\/h2>\n

In this way of learning German with tutors<\/a>, the basis is not the classical model “from theory to practice” but the reverse, more natural perception system. It is very similar to how we learn our native language. The author cites an example of how young children learn to talk – after all, no one explains the rules for constructing sentences, cases, and parts of speech. In the same way, Igor Yuryevich Shekhter suggests studying German.<\/p>\n

The essence of the modern method of learning German<\/a> lies in the fact that from the first lesson, students are given a specific task, for example, to learn about the profession of the interlocutor. Further, all students play the so-called “etudes,” where they try on various roles and try to solve the problem. Because communication takes place between people with approximately the same level of language proficiency, the fear of using foreign speech disappears, which occurs when communicating between a teacher and a student.<\/p>\n

This technique of the German language consists of three stages: at the first, lexical units, words and expressions are given, and only then, in the second and third, the use of grammatical and syntactic structures<\/a> is corrected. The system has repeatedly confirmed its effectiveness and is currently one of the most successful from the point of view of educational psychologists.<\/p>\n

Pimsleur Method<\/h2>\n

Dr. Paul Pimsler has developed a unique system of thirty-minute lessons designed to perceive information and its reproduction. Two people in each class are native German speakers. Thanks to this and a unique memorization technology, any student learns up to a hundred German words and expressions for each lesson. The essence of the study is the sequential execution of tasks spoken by the announcers.<\/p>\n

The undoubted advantages of the technique include its mobility – you can perform audio tasks anywhere:<\/p>\n