Abstract

While studying German as a foreign language students often come across with elements, words, phenomena that are specific only to that language and do not exist in their mother tongue or in other languages they know. Such words are realia. This article explores the specifics of student learning difficulties and the modern teaching methods used to overcome them. A foreign language lesson is effective if it is based on an intercultural component. The study of information on geographical texts, fiction, historical reviews, customs and traditions of native speakers reveals the peculiarities of the national mentality, linguistic features of the given nation. Through them, learners develop the ability to read und understand native language literature, using information services correctly, reading the press, having dialogues and conversations. Methods, techniques and exercises suggested in the current article have been tested in Bryusov State University for teaching German as a 2nd and 3rd foreign language to learners at A1, A2, B1 levels.

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