Published on 12, July, 2020
Hey everyone,
I'm trying to learn German again. I've wanted to learn for years but have always had really bad memory problems. Hence trying to learn it at school didn't go too well, rote learning is tricky, just couldn't retain it, I know that was like a gazillion years ago, but I'm having another go. But puzzling over how the heck to get it to stick in my head?
Any tips?
I store hundreds of number plates in my head of all the cars in the neighbourhood in a wide radius (but only on sight if that makes sense) if you ask me to recite such-and-such's licence plate I haven't got a clue, I have a massive database of groceries & their prices in my head (nightmare when it all keeps going up week on week!) but this language thing just keeps confounding me!
It seems like some information is just sucked in by default, I mean not by choice, where some information you actually want to retain, is like trying to shin up a greased pole???
Have you tried lessons on YouTube?
When I want to try and learn something I use YouTube you can learn lots of interesting things ^-^
I really struggle to retain things it's so annoying
It's like all the bad rubbish stuff I remember but the good stuff is whisked away
Hi Goosey, thanks, no I've not tried that, good call, I know we turn to youtube for all kinds of practical stuff but I didn't think of languages on that platform, perhaps we are better trying to learn things visually as opposed to rote?
I had a quick look and this is one of the video lessons ^^
https://youtu.be/r9os9Q6t6Xc?si=OVF9zy4_HjfovWYT
I was looking at YouTube to learn Italian.
I'm definitely better at learning visually for sure
Thank you, saves me some time on searching, I'll add it to my tablet!