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Before I try to answer your question let me ask you based upon what criteria you are going to decide which answer to trust? The range of advice is vast:stop learning, just use itfind your learning type (myth)watch German porn (Ja, Baby. Schneller, Baby) if you like itwatch DVDs in your lunch break (how long do you guys have lunch?)a little bit of imagination and ingenuity (hopefully you know how to be a language genius)keep a nice stream of German words and phrases flowing through your mindMost of the above, if not all, is at best like saying “lose weight, eat less, exercise more” to an overweight person asking how they can lose weight. Some of it is just dangerous Here’s my why and some guidance on how to deal with your (mostly unknown to me) situation:First of all: If you really want to “learn” German, do not “just use it”, define your learning style, nor watch German porn nor watch any kind of video in German without a strategy or system. Those activities would at beset be a waste of time but most likely lead to bad German which is costly to fix. You might enjoy them but I highly doubt that you will feel any significant progress in your German especially when you are a beginner or intermediate.SOME CLARIFICATIONSDefinition of “smart”smart language learning in my eyes means to make the most (over.achieve a clearly defined aim) out of the given resources (time/money/intelligence/talent/knowledge).What do you mean by “most of the time”?The question is what you mean by “most time”. If you worked 12 hrs per day you might still be able to squeeze out an hour to study German. (24hrs -12hrs work, -8hrs sleep, -3hrs basic living organization).ACTION PLANBest time to learnIf you are tired after work, the best time to study German is either before work (ideal), on your way to work (little village indicates that you won’t have much of a commute) or indeed in your lunch break (not ideal as you are supposed to regain strength for the rest of your workday).Best material to studyDepending on your current level and aim, you might get a book-course suitable for selfstudy (not those they use in classes, please) or get a so-called easy reader or bilingual reader. If you are at least an intermediate learner, check out Deutsche Welle’s material (some of their courses // slowly spoken news).How to structure your learningGet a tutor and let her provide you with a tailored study structure. If the tutor doesn’t know how to do that, keep looking until you find one that does. If you only have 30–60mins per day, you have to make them count. A very simple structure could be:Pick a text, skim it quickly while highlighting unknown words, look those up and then read the text again for understanding. Learn those highlighted words in chunks.**Chunks means that you shouldn’t learn“guten” = good and“der Tag” = the daybut right away go for“Guten Tag.” = Good day.You’d need to integrate listening, grammar, writing and speaking training into your strategy. It would lead to far here to unfold my approach (my new self learning course is coming in III/2016).Find your true motivation and nurture itEven if you think you knew why you want to learn German, especially if it seems obvious, write a letter to yourself in your mother tongue and explain why you love the German language and culture and what especially you love about them.Sit down for 30mins, start writing and stay at that place for the full 30mins no matter whether you don’t know what to write anymore or whether you could write on. If you find the time I strongly recommend that you write another letter but this time about why and what you hate about the German language and culture.Observe yourself (i.e. your emotions and thoughts) while doing this exercise. It might make a huge difference in your motivation. But be warned: This exercise might turn around your life.NurtureBesides all studying and learning try to integrate things and activities that you enjoy into your German studying. Maybe you are interested in oldtimers, soccer, learning psychology etc. do what you’d enjoy to do in your native language and open the door for the German language to become part of your daily life. But do not stop studying formally as that is the only way to ensure that you will feel good about your German.WarningIt is an absolute Kinderspiel to achieve some degree of German in no matter what way over a longer period of time. But a vast amount of unstructured and unsupervised learners will never cross level B2 or even B1.You’ll get by with functional German. But functional German is never (!) satisfying if you seek to live in Germany and to express yourself fully. Try to find a professional who helps you with this complex and difficult matter. You wouldn’t go to a Shaman for eye surgery I hope. Neither should you when learning a language. Don’t leave it to luck or solely rely on the techniques that you have learned in your basic school education. Those techniques are effective i.e. they help you to get the job done somehow but they are rarely efficient.I hope you I could inspire you a bit and wish you viel Erfolg mit Deinem Deutsch.Michael#learngerman #german #language #learn #germany

I've improved my ability to find a good word and fix some of my errors as I write, but I also used and sometimes still use a program that sorts my prose and finds the repeated words. It's a great way to rid your prose of boring words, some I had to delete so often that I avoid their use--examples are now, some, quite, bit, was, see, look, hear, smell, under, over, often, may, always, etc. A thesaurus is very helpful for search and replace since you can look at the nearby text an find a good choice.Often I find myself rewriting entire sentences so I don't have static or dull prose that is structured noun verb noun or a series of she, she, she.The use of a highlighter to show how much of my text is thought, emotion, description, dialogue or action is very helpful. If my text is all one color it's a throw away. I like a good balance and a sentence that combines more than one color A+++.When writing, if the word won't come, I will use a zzz or a searchable non used phrase and keep going. I can look up my research and insert it as needed.

Let me tackle the second part of your question first:What is the correct method to prepare for the GRE verbal?Be careful assuming that the “correct” (maybe I’ll use “best” or “preferred” since there are plenty of good variations of study plans) way to prepare includes the sheer memorization of hundreds of obscure vocabulary words. On each of the two verbal sections that “count” (you’ll also get a section that’s for research purposes and doesn't count, and that might be verbal or it might be math), you’ll see 10 “vocabulary” questions (typically 6 Text Completion and 4 Sentence Equivalence). Figure on average you’ll see about six answer choices per problem, meaning that overall on test day you’ll see 120 answer choices that fit “vocabulary.”But go through official practice problems and you should see that most of those words are fairly common, some answer choices (for the multi-blank Text Completions) are phrases and not just vocab words, and of the “not everyone is going to know this word” words, many appear as a single answer choice among other choices that are common words. Meaning: if one of the words you do know is right, then the one you don’t is wrong, and if the words you do know are all wrong, then this bizarre word is right by process of elimination.So memorizing 1,000 individual words is a long, circuitous route to honing in on the handful of times that you might need to make a decision between two or more “hard” vocab words.Then add these elements:Unless the word came directly from a modern ETS-written GRE problem, it’s just a hard vocabulary word that someone who doesn’t write for the GRE thinks might be a word on the test. Which also means that it probably comes from an old test, either the old (pre-2011) GRE, which had much more of an emphasis on obscure vocabulary, or the old (pre-2016) SAT, which also emphasized uncommon words. So most words you memorize won’t appear on your test, and some have a very low (if nonzero at all) probability of showing up there.The modern GRE doesn’t directly test pure word meaning: it’s all about how the word fits into the context of the sentence. And a good deal of vocab memorization comes out of context, memorizing a dictionary or flashcard definition without really becoming familiar with how that word is used in various situations.And what it really boils down to is this: remember those commercials for kid cereals (Lucky Charms, Count Chocula, Froot Loops…) that said “part of a healthy, well-balanced breakfast” but then also had a quick shot of all the food you probably should have been eating instead (a banana, maybe some eggs, some fresh fruit…)? Memorizing some vocabulary is “part of a well-balanced study plan” but it’s not the most important or most valuable part. You have to know some vocabulary, but your primary score gains will come from learning how to do the problems and reason your way through them.So with all that said, here are some core elements of a quality GRE Verbal study plan:Devour the official ETS-written problems.For one, only ETS really knows which words it will test and which ones it won’t, and any other resource is only making an educated guess. So make sure you prioritize the official GRE study books, and the official ETS PowerPrep practice tests. If the authors of the GRE have put it in their resources, it’s a word worth getting to know.But that’s not all! As you go through the official questions, you’ll get a good feel for how they’re written (I’ll touch on that more a little further down) and what types of action items you’ll need to attack the questions. This is really important - there’s a definite style and feel to the official problems, and the more you’re in sync with that style the better your study tactics will be directed right at the target.2. Find vocabulary words in context.One huge problem with just sheer flashcard memorization is that you’ll learn some combination of a formal definition and one single usage of that word. But you’re not directly tested on the meaning of the word: you’re tested on its usage. So with any word, Google it and then click on “News” and read it as it’s used in a handful of articles.3. Learn words in families.Again, think about how you’ll be tested on these words. In Sentence Equivalence, your job is to find two words that give the sentence the same, logical meaning. So learning multiple words that mean the same or similar things (loquacious and garrulous both mean “talkative” or “wordy,” the opposite of succinct) sets you up for questions in which you’ll often need to find pairs. And with Text Completion, often you’ll see that the sentence requires agreement between two blanks or between one blank and a given word; in these cases, it’s also helpful to know “these words tend to go together.” So for any “new” word, find a few related, similar words that you already know and think about them together. And if multiple new words have similar meanings, try to learn them together also.4. Pay attention to roots.Learning words one at a time is pretty inefficient. So similar to grouping them in families above, picking up on roots that give words similar meanings can help you get more mileage out of each thing you memorize. Knowing that “mal” is a prefix for “bad” means that even if you don’t know the exact meaning of “malicious” or “malevolent” or “malignant,” you have a pretty good sense that they’re words that mean “bad.” So if the meaning of the blank has to be “good” you can eliminate those words, and if it’s something negative then unless you see a better fit that you know for sure, you can feel confident picking one of the mal- words. This website was one of my favorite resources as I was writing up our section on roots in the Veritas Prep lesson book: English Language RootsNow, those are great strategies for learning vocabulary in a GRE-efficient way, but keep in mind that Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence are not explicitly vocabulary exercises! So as you study, you should also:5. Pay attention to subtle differences between word meanings.This is something that GRE students don’t do nearly enough! Lots of questions are designed to hinge not on the definition of an obscure word that you’d never use yourself, but on the very precise meanings of words that you use frequently. I love the problem in this video, for which the whole thing comes down to the difference between “massive” (very big) and “excessive” (too big). To the untrained or slightly-unfocused (or focused on the wrong thing) they both mean the exact same thing related to “big.” But the GRE does a great job of requiring (or ruling out) specific meanings and punishing those who take a meaning that’s really close but not exact.6. Think about the second, third, fourth, etc. definitions of a word, not just the most obvious one.Another theme that gets people down is that they quickly make decisions on words based on one definition, without considering some of the lesser-used definitions of those words (cue Led Zeppelin “there’s a sign on the door but she wants to be sure, for you know sometimes words have two meanings…”). There’s one in an official practice test where just about everyone rules out the word “plastic” - you need a word that means flexible/pliable/malleable - because we all think of plastic material, but then you go through the other answer choices and…maybe one word you’re not exactly sure of but the others don’t really work. And it’s so, so common…about half of people I see pick the word they don’t know (“well, it isn’t these so it must be that”) and the other half go through a second pass and essentially say “I’d use a different word myself, but yeah I guess plastic does fit here…”One of our instructors called me a couple weeks ago after scoring a perfect 170/170 and as we were debriefing his test, he specifically highlighted that exact takeaway. He said that much of the test was very comfortable, but on each verbal section at least two problems came down to him having to really dig deep on “wait…but that word that I was about to eliminate actually has several other meanings.” And he specifically called out a strategy we talk about with regard to that “plastic” problem - before you eliminate a word, see if you can change the part of speech. “Plastic” as an adjective may mean fake, or cheap, or something pertaining to the material plastic. But “plasticity” as a noun absolutely conjures up the meaning “flexibility/pliability” and helps you realize that “plastic,” via a definition lower on the hierarchy in the dictionary, gives you what you need.7. Be ready to work on these problems.One last limitation to the centrality of vocab memorization is that anything you expressly memorize for conjures up the idea of “hey you either know the meaning or you don’t.” But so many GRE verbal problems are a lot more about trial and error, plugging in an answer choice or two and seeing if they work together, then going back and trying another combination, and really asking yourself deep down “would anyone really write that sentence?” Here’s one more video that deals with that topic - any of the problems for which there are multiple answers (Text Completion with more than one blank; Sentence Equivalence where you have to choose two answers) aren’t just an exercise in picking one answer, then moving on and picking the next. You may find one meaning you love but then have to really critically consider whether you can match it with the other blank or another choice. And the danger comes from then forcing a square peg in a round hole, so to speak, on that next decision. GRE Verbal now more than ever really rewards critical thinking - the meaning of the sentence is so crucial but people spend too much of their time memorizing meanings of words. And as you practice with official problems, you’ll start to learn that lesson and hopefully better focus your preparation on these strategies that will help you master the questions, whether you’ve memorized 1,000 words or even just 100.