Advantages of studying language face to face with a real person.

Study with a Real Person

Benefits of Having a Language Instructor

The main benefit of having a foreign language teacher is to be consistently inspired by another human being who is interested in your progress.

There are a few advantages to having a real person helping you individually:

• You can test your speech in a real dialogue.
• Language instructor can correct you if needed.
• A real person can extend the meanings of words you use and connect them to other parts of speech, using examples, gestures and mimics that aid memorization.
• Instructor can adjust the lessons exactly to your needs and save your time.
• According to recent studies, people acquire language in person significantly better than from videos and other materials.

Materials

Experienced teacher can give you an overview of the best resources and methods, and warn you about low quality materials and ineffective approaches to language learning. Unfortunately, most popular materials on German language online contain errors, limited, or disconnected from usage examples. Your teacher can recommend you books, audio and video of high quality, which you can rely upon.

Culture

Having a person who lived in German-speaking countries for years as your language teacher might be beneficial because you will learn how to use the phrases in real life in connection to the culture and the way of thinking.

Personal Benefits of Knowing another Language

 Speaking additional languages can keep you mentally healthy:

Looking at the experiences of immigrants, Ellen Bialystok at York University in Canada has found that speaking two languages delayed dementia diagnosis by five years. Those who knew three languages, however, were diagnosed 6.4 years later than monolinguals, while for those fluent in four or more languages, enjoyed an extra nine years of healthy cognition. - David Robson, 2015

Your mind can become faster and more empathetic:

A steady stream of studies over the past decade has shown that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in a range of cognitive and social tasks from verbal and nonverbal tests to how well they can read other people. Greater empathy is thought to be because bilinguals are better at blocking out their own feelings and beliefs in order to concentrate on the other person’s.
“Bilinguals perform these tasks much better than monolinguals – they are faster and more accurate,” says Athanasopoulos. - Gaia Vince, 2016

Cognitive neuropsychologist Jubin Abutalebi, at the University of San Raffaele in Milan:

Bilingual people have significantly more grey matter than monolinguals in their anterior cingulate cortex, and that is because they are using it so much more often.

Having almost any capable personal language instructor can be beneficial for your in some way. You just need to decide how valuable it is for you.