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How I Scored above 90% in German Telc B1 Exam in just 3 Weeks
And you can too!
Introduction
Learning a language is a super rewarding experience. You get to learn to communicate with people of different lands and cultures. You get to understand their mindsets and way of thinking. You also learn to express yourself better in your language as well as the one you are learning.
There are no downsides to learning a new language.
And if you either live in Germany, or you are planning to move here, you will soon realise how much you have to rely on the German language to get by in your day-to-day life. I was not required to speak German at my workplace. However, I wanted to feel comfortable in the country I would call my home in the years to come.
Motivation
It was the year 2010, 11 years before I actually moved to Germany. I was a Francophile, and had been learning French on and off for 4 years by then. I was supposed to enroll for my B1 classes at the Alliance Francaise, but I missed the last date for enrollment. I had a lot of creative curiosity built up inside me, and I didn’t want to sit idle for 6 months before the next batch at Alliance began.
So I approached a local language training institute to check out what languages they had on offer. They had French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish. Unfortunately, all courses except German were fully booked.
Although German was never on my radar, I thought I’d rather try my hand at it. So, 11 years ago, I completed the equivalent of the A1.1 level in the Common European framework of Reference. The language sounded so much more different to me than French did, and it had a very dry grammar to it. So, back then, I had vowed I wouldn’t pursue the language again.
But fate brought me to Munich with a great career opportunity. And I learnt on my first day here, that I had to learn German to stay afloat, when the ticket vending machine in a tram broke down, and I couldn’t ask the tram driver to help me, because I didn’t remember any! So when I came back home, I registered myself for the A2 course offered by Lingoda.
