Fire Lily

Dumme Frage. Weil ich vermutlich nie eine Reise dort leisten werde. Aber…


Wie einfach es sein, damit ein nicht deutscher Lautsprecher bellydance in Deutschland erlernt.


Im Verstand bitte halten, dass es einfacher für dich ist, auf englisch zu schreiben, dann es Tanne ich ist, zum des Deutschen zu lesen.


Es ist gerade Spaßschreiben in einer Fremdsprache!

Sharif

I can read German pretty well, and your automatic translation contains numerous errors that would keep people from understanding you (it translated "speaker" as "loudspeaker" in German...). I think your experiences learning belly dance ("Bauchtanz") in Germany would be similar.

Most Germans have a hard time speaking English (although they probably learned some in high school - how good is your French again?). In a class you will simply have to adjust to instruction in German. It may not be too hard because most of the stuff will be easily read from the instructors moves and body language.

Many Arabic instructors have a poor command of the English language and they are successfull training American dancers. But I would definitely recommend that you do a short language course to get the basics before taking off on a trip. Yes, that might actually be fun!

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chryssanthi sahar

Dear Fire Lily, I'm sorry to tell you, that your German is not understandable. Please forget the automatic translators, they kill every language.
Actually, what did you want to ask? If it is possible to visit courses in Germany if you don't speak German? If this is your question, here is my answer: it depends! There are people like me who are multilingual and quite fluent in English (and other languages), so they can give explanations in English (or other languages) if necessary. I go one step further: if I have students who don't speak German (and this happens often), I do the class bilingual, giving explanations in English and German.
On the other hand, there are instructors who don't speak foreign languages well. In this case, you will have to learn German (or learn to guess what the instructor wants to tell ). There are many Germans (and non Germans living in Germany like myself), who speak English and other languages quite well, but there are also many who don't. It depends where you go. If you go to a city with a famous university (like Heidelberg, where I live), the possibility to find multilingual people is lot higher than if you go to an industrial or agricultural area, since in university cities the percentage of academics is high and you find them in every profession ( in Heidelberg even the taxi drivers are university graduates )
As about Zadiel, I think he speaks English

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nicknack

If you don't have time for language classes the very best audio courses are the Michel Thomas ones, your library should be able to get hold of it. It's great I used it to consolidate my the German that I remember from school (not a lot after 4 years of class), I had a basic vocabulary but this audio course taught me how to string sentences together.

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