currently at A1.5. possible? not a chance? I'm going to attempt it regardless, I just realistic input.
#B2 German in 5 months for Uni exam: What are we saying?
vagrant carbon
stray escarp
Yeah just spam Youtube videos of random Germans. NOT educational German videos, but random videos, random topics of germans speaking. Like you have the fyp of an average German digga. Translate everything you dont understand and just repeat what they say. Learning german academically aint the way for you bro, you need some military grade training type of shit
vagrant carbon
Thank you Herr Stuerhinterzieher
wary bolt
That is (potentially) horrible advice. If you want to learn to B2 quickly, you should most definitely exploit your adult capacity for reason and not rely on a purely input-based approach.
polar cedar
Typically if you have a strict deadline for an exam, the recommended approach is to get a personal tutor and/or take a course designed for that specific exam.
Most people won't be able to get to B2 in 5 months. Although as always, it's a bit easier to prepare for an exam than to actually reach that CEFR level.
knotty jewel
Caveat: I'm a native, so my opinion is just an opinion, nothing more.
I think it mostly depends on how much time you can spend. If you consider learning German your "main job" and treat it as such, and have a high affinity for language learning, there might be a way there.
Immersion can help with that, but at A1.5, there will be too much basic stuff missing for this to be efficient, I think. I mean, it takes some skill to parse the speech of a native in "random" contexts; at A1.5, you might not yet have that skill to a sufficient level, and Youtube subtitles regularly get basic stuff wrong as well, so you might not even be able to look up some words. Immersion can, however, help you to track track your progress to some extend, or to help you unwind after "normal" learning, or make you more familiar with sentence structure or pronunciation.
Having dedicated lessons as often as reasonably possible would also improve your chances, if you can find a teacher that works well with your learning style - whatever that may be. One-on-one lessons typically are more expensive, but they can also speed up the process.
vagrant carbon
Caveat: I'm a native, so my opinion is just an opinion, nothing more.
I think i...
thank you, and agreed. I realized very quickly that subtitles are not dependable.
vagrant carbon
Most people won't be able to get to B2 in 5 months. Although as always, it's a b...
yeah honestly, I'll just focus on doing a lot of mock exams in german as well
thanks for the responses
scarlet musk
This is barely possible as a full time job. The FSI / US State Department training for diplomats is 33 weeks and 8 hours a day 5 days a week with dedicated teachers. That reaches somewhere similar to B2 level IIRC (American system level 4).
But I don't think it is reasonable for normal people to assume.
Anything less than full time job effort (25+ hours of lecture, 15+ hours of homework / drills / self study per week) and you won't be able to do it. And a lot of what makes this possible is the native level teachers helping along the way... As well as selecting people who actually want to learn new languages.