Learning German to help access Russian materials?

[AHetzer]

"Udut, Kenneth" schrieb:
>
> Oh, I'm always confused :-)
>
> It sounds absurd, and it probably
> is absurd - but the reason I ask
> (and I should learn to not be so darned vague),
> is that I have heard of a language learning
> method put together by a Vera F Birkenbihl,
> and someone recommended it to me as a way to
> furthur my Russian.  However, she wasn't sure
> if her materials were available in English.
>
Now, at last, we know what's the matter! Vera F. Birkenbihl is very
prolific in publishing courses and manuals for management training.
There is only one language training by her method ("neuro-linguistic" -
without memorizing!): English for business men. I do not know anything
about this method, because applied linguistics in this sense is not my
field. If someone promisses that learning a foreign language without
memorizing, I am very cautious. I know but the very traditional method
of putting a phrase book under the pillow and then sleeping on it.

BTW I am convinced that in the last event this is again something coming
from overseas, no real German invention. Perhaps someone on the list
knows more about the neuro-linguistic approach to learning Russian.

Kind regards
A.H.