In the first of the article series that we started to learn about my wife’s experience in our story of moving to Germany, we explained the process titled ‘Leaving a Career and Moving to the Unknown’.. Of course, it is good to make a decision and start a new life, but if this decision is to live in a foreign country, learning the language of that country is a problem in itself.. Since I found a job in my own sector (informatics) with English and I know German well enough (I learned it in high school and studied in Austria for a year), I have never sat down and studied German for a single day.. But for my wife it was just the opposite; because he did not know German and had to learn it to find a job.. How long does it take to learn German? I’m here with the learning adventure, I leave the word to him.
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When you start learning German, you see such words and you don’t want to believe they really exist.
When you start learning German, you encounter words like Arbeiterunfallversicherungsgesetz above and despair that you will never learn German. But over time, you learn that these long words are actually compound words made up of simple words written side by side, and instead of reading the whole word, you should choose these small words and read them.. Thus, you are no longer intimidated and after a while you feel like a German professor and can read the whole word at once.. “But after how long?” I can hear you say. In this article, I will inform you about How long does it take to learn German and how much it costs, based on my own German learning story.
Levels and Topics of German
How long does it take to learn German? You must first determine at what level you want to learn. German levels are expressed with letters and numbers. The letters A, B, C are the basic levels from the beginning to the forward. Each letter is divided into 1 and 2 to see if you are at the beginning or end of that level (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2). When you say your German level, you usually say “I am A2” in this breakdown.. Then it is broken once again, which are usually the levels where the course classes are separated.. In other words, there are 12 levels in total, A1.1, A1.2, A2.1, A2.2, going towards C2.2, but the hardest and longest to learn of these are A1, A2 and B1 levels at the beginning, as I explained above. It was the same for her.
Fatma always explained the German learning curve to me this way. It’s big and difficult at first, it gets easier when you understand the logic and progress .
- A1 and A2 is the part of the person introducing himself/herself, telling where he/she comes from and what his/her hobbies are, that is, enough for the introduction dialogues.
- B1 is the amount we say “enough to tell my problem”. You can think of simple person/time shots like I’m gone, I’ll go, you’re gone, like detailed conversations with each other in style but clearly.
