How to make your German Lesson crash and burn, like the Hindenburg!

1. Make sure your students have a loose and shaky grasp on the standard German pronunciation.


2. Teach them dialect in 30min and then test them 10 min later on it.


3. Make them listen to a noisy and constantly dialect switching program with native dialect speakers who sound like they are drunk. Also make sure they speak fast and have really strong accents. Almost to the point of total distortion but not quite!


(Note: If ALL the students have blank looks on their faces, just ignore it. Its all good)

4. Then one at a time, with their 30min of knowledge, expect them to pick out words amongst the chaos. Then state which specific sound, in the word, differs from the standard pronunciation. And to say what the words mean in english!



5.If they student cant ( But come on, how could they not?) you pick out random compound words that no one would know unless they were a native speaker. Then tell them how this unknown only differs slightly in the "a" sound and then draw a picture to help then visualize the word.


6. Then make sure you picture is so ambiguous that anyone who might have had a clue, now is completely lost!


AND that my friends is how to make the worst German dialect lesson ever!!!