2026-02-06
12 分钟Hi, today I want to talk about German, why German isn't that difficult.
So I want to talk about some of the common difficulties that people experience with German and why in fact German is relatively easy to learn.
First of all,
let me say that one of my motivations
for developing Link was the fact that I had many books at home in German and in Spanish full of words that I had underlined and that I didn't know the meaning of and every time I looked them up in the dictionary I would forget them.
So with the system like link of course I can look words up and then review them later on so that was a major motivation.
And reading in German has always been a major part of my sort of discovery of enjoyment of and eventually,
you know, my ability to improve my level in the German language.
But up front, German does present some difficulties, which can be a little bit intimidating.
And so I like to refer to the famous formula.
put forward by Lom Kato, a famous Hungarian polyglot.
She learned so many languages primarily by reading, and she had a formula,
which was that the result in our language learning activity consists of a formula,
which is how much time we put in, what our level of interest is, which is,
call it, motivation, and the denominator is inhibition, frustration, things that stand in our way.
So with German, Obviously, you want to put in a lot of time.
Second of all, and I'm going to get to this, this whole issue of motivation.
And then,
if we right up front are discouraged or intimidated by certain apparent difficulties in German,
that kind of ruins the whole learning result.