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justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world āØ11ā© āØmonthsā© ago

Exactly this worked best for me back in the day ;) Iā€™m German and while we have some mandatory English classes, theyā€™re ā€¦well ā€¦ not good. Blunt, boring, 1:1 translations of German sentences, and at least the teacher I had first also had a VERY thick German accent, pronouncing stuff WAY too harsh (ā€œZis is nott how yoo shoold zound when zpeeking inglish for forks zake!ā€) so other than learning a few basics, the lessons werenā€™t at all useful to me.

ā€¦but Iā€™ve been an avid fan of the Zelda franchise even back then so I decided to play Ocarina of Time in English after a first German playthrough. Barely understood the dialogue at first, started to recognize certain keywords after a few days, and once I was halfway through the game my brain kinda switched to ā€œEnglish modeā€ and I actually learned words and grammar in a natural way instead of trying to force myself to understand what the hell a ā€œsingular past tense adverbā€ is.

Long story short, school tried to teach me how to translate German thoughts into English sentences before speaking them out loud. Games, movies, books and music taught me to THINK in English so I wouldnā€™t need to translate my thoughts first.

The same way Iā€™m currently trying to learn Spanish by the way, which already works way better than any classes ever did.

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