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About Me
- Laura
- I learnt German at school and hated it - no one wanted to explain the structures to me. Back then I thought that there couldn't be any structures in German, otherwise people would explain how they work to me to save me a lot of time and effort. So I gave up German. Fortunately, I ended up doing my gap year in Germany, learning German in classes for foreigners, and then studying German at university. And finally, people wanted to teach me grammar. I was lucky, I get grammar, it stuck in my head, and I graduated with a first class degree with distinction in the spoken and written language. Since then, I've worked as a translation checker and a financial analyst with a focus on German-speaking regions, and I'm now a financial translator. I also had a brief go at teacher training, but quit, partly because 30 11-year-olds in a room really give me stage fright, but partly because teaching theory dictated that teachers focus on speaking and avoid teaching the interesting bit: the grammar. So now, I'm making German GrammarPod, to try and pass on the love and understanding of grammar, but without the bit where I need to stand up in front of 30 11-year-olds to deliver it.
3 comments:
I think it is wonderful that you have spent so much time and effort putting all this together. This is a wonderful job and has been extremely helpful.
You asked for suggestions on future pod casts. For me, it would be great, as someone may have suggested, to go over a few of the flavoring particles and maybe a few of German idiomatic terms that make absolutely no sense when translated to English.
Again, thank you so much!
Leon Templeton (USA)
Hey Laura
It's really good to see people like you working so hard to give advantage to other people for free. I think if you had sold your podcasts to a langugae learning Company, you had already made a furtune.
YOUr job is admirable and i appreciate it.
I just want you to continue and hope you give us some more tips about how to learn the Language faster and faster.
Go on ! we got your back covered
Izadi ( I. R. I. )
This post used to contain a link to a short podcast giving a correction I made to my first conditional podcast (however, I've now removed the link, as I assume that everyone who downloaded the podcast with an error before 26 April 2009, has now downloaded the corrected version already).
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