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As for that what I experienced two years ago - I went to Poland for an exchange year, with going to school there etc. So I was enjoying the possibility of experiencing the Polish approach on language lessons (I call it the 'Polish approach', because it was the same with the German classes I attented, and we do such things differently here in Germany, so it could be it wasn't just a teacher thing, but an overall teaching method in Poland). Unfortunalety I can't say they were very effective. In terms of learning English, I mean, because later on I used them to increase my Polish knowledge, and therefore they were a great help
We did loads of grammar, speaking was like the smallest part of those lessons, and if you ask me, speaking's the most important part of learning a language. That, and maybe vocabulary.
I have absolutely no idea how English lessons are nowadays - all I can can speak of is how it was at my time and it was non-existant. Actually Eng lessons were there -on a paper - but there was a serious lack of anyone who actually spoke it. LOL i've just remembered when I was 15 and english "teacher" approached me before a lesson asking me about some shit from a book and i was: "that's no way to teach anyone anything - play some music and let class transcribe lyrics". Whole year almost every lesson was another piece of The Police, Mike and the Mechanics, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and Jethro Tull music. Ohhh how ppl hated me for it xD Not as much as when i've came up with an idea at highschool to translate books and compare our translations and recite them in front of the class.
As for that what I experienced two years ago - I went to Poland for an exchange year, with going to school there etc. So I was enjoying the possibility of experiencing the Polish approach on language lessons (I call it the 'Polish approach', because it was the same with the German classes I attented, and we do such things differently here in Germany, so it could be it wasn't just a teacher thing, but an overall teaching method in Poland). Unfortunalety I can't say they were very effective. In terms of learning English, I mean, because later on I used them to increase my Polish knowledge, and therefore they were a great help
We did loads of grammar, speaking was like the smallest part of those lessons, and if you ask me, speaking's the most important part of learning a language. That, and maybe vocabulary.