zenmonkey wrote:I've been thinking about this exact issue - SOV - caveman or Tarzan speak - and L-R or Shadowing and how the word order makes these methods less effective or a bigger and unnecessary mental exercise.
Yes, that's what basically happened to me when I tried to use the original L-R method (I cause it the "original" because earlier in this thread I wrote that the method worked for me while in reality what I practiced is more or less the extension of the Assimil method). I picked up Kafka's Castle and it worked fine for short sentences and dialogues. But I simply couldn't follow the narrative and connect the dots on the fly with longer sentences because the world order difference in German and Russian.