My learning journey has now been going on for over four months and progress has been reasonable. I think I now understand all of the rules regarding adjective declension, all of the cases, and each time I visit the Spiegel website I find myself able to muddle through a few more articles each time.
The problem arises with speaking. This is a learning journey I am pretty much undertaking on my own, and as a result I never have any reason to spontaneously construct German. Instead if ever I do, it is at leisure and therefore I always find myself translating from the English first. This means that although my comprehension is coming along nicely, my speaking is still at an incredibly basic level.
Is this an issue that anyone else has problems with? Or even better, has someone been through this already and found a workable solution? One thing that springs to mind is some kind of online resource that asks questions in German (or another language) to which you have to reply out loud. The issue though, would be that until such a system could pass the Turing test, it wouldn't be much of a conversation!
Maybe I'll just have to wait until I next get the chance to go to Germany...
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