Quote Originally Posted by JJ
Al, why don't you try so-called "Ilya Frank's method"? I've been studied German for 2 weeks useing this method and I found it interesting. I was trying to check how many words I know yesterday - on every page of my German-Russian dictionary I saw about 1-2-3 words I knew, so my passive vocabular is about 600-1000 words now!
Mit der Franks Methode wirst du nur lesen koennen. Wenn du auch sprechen willst, brauchst du die Sprechuebungen.