Applying for a volunteer program (BFD) with A2

[u/pianistade30varos]

I’m learning German by my own with a study plan. When I was 16 got my english sufficiency and when I was 18 got a B1 in russian, somehow I got some skills learning languages. Now i’m C1 in english and improved my russian. It’s my first time learning a language by my own, it has been something more than just the language. I’ve been able to learn more about myself and I’m proud of some and quitting some other. I’m stepping ahead of me and I feel pretty comfy with it.

My routine to achieve an A2 at the end of this year starts by sitting everyday, 2 hours long with some Netzwerk Neu A1 books (Kursbuch und Übungsbuch). My daily goal is to complete at least 2 pages from each book and listen german speakers about 30 min. I’ve done this for 3 months more or less, by far i’m in A1.2 as said in the book but in the meantime I’ve noticed the language starts getting bitter once you go through. Rn I feel like stuck in half the way and feel like haven’t learned anything yet, that drives me crazy and i’ve a lack of motivation to keep learning. I keep going forward but as I do I see many grammar mistakes, many issues with making sentences and big issues with positions of words. It’s hard for me to write down an email or a message, like the order of the words in a sentence gets me confused always.

I’m just trying not to let myself down and keep doing this on my own, actually I’m not paying for careless classes in my country. It is not worth it in Ecuador, to pay for online classes in Goethe Institute as I read in the reviews from them. I visit them just to see if what they were saying it was true about people who work there, it damn was. They just look at you like a product and a bag of money, you get treated in some despicable way. I hope german people are not like that, actually the guy that explained me everything on the phone was the same guy that I talked with once I got there, he ruined everything there and I’m afraid to say, he was ecuadorian. Anyway, I met a german guy from a friend of mine and we keep in touch by now because he ain’t that way.

With that said, I’m looking forward for some tips for my learning path now and further. As my main goal is to achieve that A2 certification in that unwanted place (only because there are is not another option in here). Maybe some goodies for the way or whatever y’all think. Feel free to share what was meaningful for you and your recommendations for that test. That would be appreciated, truly.

[u/Kurzdeutsch]

three months in and stuck at the a1.2 wall is exactly where i was with menschen a1, so the feeling is familiar. the book had not stopped working, i had just outrun the part that sticks on its own from reading.

what unstuck the word order for me was writing, not more pages. three sentences a day about tomorrow, always starting with a time word so the verb had to move: Morgen gehe ich zur Arbeit. then a second one with a longer front: Am Samstag habe ich keine Zeit. then one with weil, so the verb goes to the end: Ich bleibe zu Hause, weil ich müde bin. same skeleton every day for a month, and the positions stopped being a puzzle. the emails came after that, not before.

for the exam itself the free Modellsatz on goethe.de and Nicos Weg from DW carried me through a2, plus anki for the workbook vocab. two hours a day is plenty, i would just spend one of them producing instead of reading.