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B2.2: the invasion of Awesomeness!

“only learning is not important. The feeling that you have learnt is more important because that’s what gives you confidence!” said our new teacher as he inaugurated the class. There is one more class who study B2.2. For them learning has become demanding. For us, it is demanding as well as unconventional.   His creative ideas for learning German remind me of the sultan of pop up books who revolutionized book reading. So I just nicknamed our new teacher after that man. Lothar Meggendorfer His intelligence borders somewhere between genius and insanity and he refuses to stick to the teaching structure followed by most teachers.   While others stress on grammar in the passages given in the book, “don’t force yourself to understand grammar” is what our teacher says. “Mark the lines that you think are awesome. Underline beautiful idioms and expressions.” says Meggendorfer.   He teaches us a complicated grammar rule, we analyse in detail how it works, and then he say “ah, tha