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7 Summary of Week 2

I hope you’ve enjoyed this week. You’ve learned how to express your TV viewing preferences, some useful language for discussing statistics and how to use separable verbs in the present tense.

Here are three tips for language learning. We’ll use the acronym LAL to remember them.

  • Little and often is most effective, especially for learning vocabulary. 10 minutes a day works wonders.
  • Active learning - don’t just repeat. Invent! Make up sentences and dialogues to practise new language in context.
  • Live it! Make it part of your life. Try to recall the names for different types of TV shows when you’re watching TV. Say telephone numbers to yourself in German. When you’re out and about, say car registration numbers to yourself in German.

Week 2 Reflection

Which of the three tips (little and often, active learning, live it) will you find most useful and why?

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How could you adapt these tips for your own situation?

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This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University badged course LXG003 - Beginners German 3: richtig so!.

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