Does it seem to people that school teachers teach to pass exams? Benevolence may have originally been a part of it, but it has been long since hammered out of them! For example, dropped in Germany I would have no chance of getting anyway with my German. On an English exam, I have a chance of scraping a C :bugeye: maybe. Anyone else noticed this?
Another problem with your German is that they teach you high, or proper, German. The more common dialects are nothing close.
you cannot teach dialects, you have to learn the basics. English has many dialects to, schotish, irish, walish or how about the gypsies in the movie "Snatch"
then theres southern, new jursy, texas. to name just a few. but if you can learn plain old propper english all of them will understand.
It also strikes me as dumb to teach it so late. Don't most countries that teach languages start earlier? Or am I speaking out of my ass? I think I might be better at German if I had been taught in year 3 maybe:bugeye:
Yes, but almost no one outside of a university is going to speak a language perfectly. Most folks around here, if you spoke that high German to them, they wouldn't understand you. And English, I went through unholy fire and back, what, twelve years, failed twice in high school, for what? I think I benefitted from at least some of it, but our school system is so messed up.
