I decided to skip classes today. Doesn't sound like a good move, I know; but man, I feel like I have the worst german language teacher on earth.
German is quite complex, is not easy to learn it. It's easy to get frustrated and unmotivated while learning it. You really want to have to learn it (I do) but if your teacher sucks, that sure screws everything up and makes things even harder.
I really am glad to have my supportive and awesome SO at home. I feel very sorry for some of my Tunisian classmates.
This new teacher -we recently started the B2 course- explains zero grammar rules to us, zero. Yet, she expects us to resolve exercises from our workbook. Not in the classroom, but at home. Without explanation? it's the first time we are seeing that crap woman, you can at least explain the basic stuff, damn it!
The worst thing is, the next day she doesn't check or correct the exercises with us. How can you/we know if we got it or not? She just goes on and on.
We asked if could we at least check some of the answers in the classroom, but she said that's a waste of time and that if we want to know the answers, they are in the back part of the book. Wtf? Come on, if we got it wrong, we want to know the correct way.
At the end yes, perhaps we shouldn't care that much about grammar. We want to make mistakes and learn from them. Why don't you give us the chance? Again, I'm glad I have my SO who corrects me and helps me; but how about the others? The only chance they have to get their mistakes corrected is in the classroom, but that's even happening.
Also her teaching methods are boring, she can be mean or sound mean at times, there is always tension in our classroom and we all feel unmotivated, we don't look forward to our classes anymore.
I hope things change because if they continue like that, I am afraid I won't be making much progress. Which is sad and sucks, because this classes are expensive and one of the reasons I came here was to improve my german, but I haven't learned anything new since 29.10.
Ok, I'm off to study by myself now.
My SO wasn't happy I decided to skip classes, so I promised him I was going to learn from home today and that he can ask me about it when he is back from work, so I better get started. :-)
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As a group they complained about her at the university, but they were just told to tell her what they wanted to change (which they tried, repeatedly) and nothing happened.
Their course was free, but it still sucked. The whole class hated her. I was actually quite impressed by the rich vocabulary they used to talk about her *cough*
My SO and most of his classmates still passed the exam in the end.
Seeing as you're paying for the course (and I have a pretty clear idea what private language courses in Germany cost), I'd complain to the school and demand another teacher.
I'd definitely go to the admin and complain.
We all talked to the teacher today and compromises were made on both parts (apparently we were spoiled by our previous teachers). So far, today's class was really a good one, so we'll see.