reineke wrote:If you like the approach but don't like the execution you could try with Paul Noble. I would move away from English-based resources altogether. Pimsleur 1-3 + MT = 50 hours and less than 50 pages of text in the target tanguage.
I'm actually not that much of a fan of the approach. With an "easy" language like German it's way too slow for me. Maybe with a more opaque language will be more helpful. The tuple MT and Pimsleur have the only characteristic to be convenient to use in the car while driving, since I spend quite a good time on the road.
Somehow, I feel like I did a mistake with Romanian - sort of: I can live with only passive skills in this language, but there are other languages, like German, which I actually want to also produce and not only to acquire. I built my comprehension skills very fast at the point that I can get a lot out of native resources, but couldn't memorize the structures and I'm still not able to write or speak very simple sentences. For the very little work I have done with German so far, having drilled basic constructions, I had quite a boost.
Ich weiß jetzt das ich etwas auf Detusch kan sagen oder schreiben, das natürlich kein Wunder ist, aber sicher viel mehr das ich auf Romanische tun kan. Ich glaube mein Duits ist eigentlich Niederlandisch mit etwas deutsche Wörter, aber es ist auch nicht so schlecht, nicht wahr?
I can't do that in Romanian, and that's why I never wrote anything in it. This was my first attempt ever (if I remember correctly). Maybe it is a good idea to start writing in German on Lang-8.
In the meanwhile, started to do the Germanpod101 absolute beginner serie, going only through dialogues and exercises without listening to the full lessons (which contain too much fillers). I already did the first 13 episodes effortlessly. I don't care about very specific vocabulary that I can learn in a second moment and which are low frequency words. That is for later. Then I will move to the Warum nicht first season, then to the beginner seasons of Germanpod101, and so on. I look forward to the Intermediate seasons of Germanpod101 because contain much less English and much more German.