Lingua 5B wrote:
Most language programs don’t have this incorporated or only have some very basic, limited phonetic lessons. It’s time consuming with 100s of students and it’d be very expensive. They’d have to go around and check each one of you if your breathing, vowels, links, prosodies, tongue placement, consonants etc. are fine, then correcting everyone individually. It’s like singing class, that’s why there are only max. five people enrolled at singing class.
The German classes I was in at school and university were quite small (ca. 10-15 students) so the problem was just lack of will on the part of the teachers as far as I'm concerned. They also assumed (correctly) that most of the students in the class would never need German in their professional or personal life after school and so probably didn't think proper pronunciation was important.