Almost perfect. :k:
Thank you Umer and Mehnaz :)
I have to say that after coming to Vienna, I literally had no other choice as to learn the language and to learn it well, if I wanted to complete education, understand the austrians, to converse with them in daily life, make friends and to have a good career.
My previous education was in english. It was hard to change, but when you have no other choice at the moment, all you can do is to follow the flow. After one year I actually had the guts to speak and then it went fast. I learned a lot on my own. I would read articles, books in german and then look up the german word that I did not understand in an english dictionary, would write it on the top of the german word. This way I would not need to look again, incase I would forget something. I have to say that I read a lot and allway had a small pocket dictionary with me, which I would use when in the subway, bus, train and would see signs or words written on advertisments, magazines ect.. that I did not knew.
Like Mehnaz stated .. In general if you go to any foreign country and cannot speak the language, you will automatically learn from speaking to natives, being in the culture but of course you will only learn the right grammer only if you do some courses, or read grammer course books in your own. In school I learned french grammer but when I was in Geneve for one week i made a lot of conversal improvment which would not have been possible otherwise.
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Like Mehnaz stated .. In general if you go to any foreign country and cannot speak the language, you will automatically learn from speaking to natives, being in the culture but of course you will only learn the right grammer only if you do some courses, or read grammer course books in your own. In school I learned french grammer but when I was in Geneve for one week i made a lot of conversal improvment which would not have been possible otherwise.
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Exactly, I agree with that! We learn here in Holland in (secondary?) schools English, German and French. I had forgotten most of German and French when I left school. But later, I lived in France for a few years, and just by living there, I really learnt the language, much much bettter than in school and from books. It's necessary to learn grammar from books to avoid grammer mistakes in the language, but books are just not enough. When I finished secondary school. I could say 'the car is red' 'I like strawberries' etc. But real conversation.....that you can't learn from just books!