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Reddit mentions of The Everything Learning German Book: Speak, write, and understand basic German in no time
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| Length | 8 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | November 2009 |
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I've always said that if I had a superpower, it would be to understand any spoken or written language. I took 3 years of Spanish in high school, but like most high school kids, I didn't pay a lot of attention and I barely remember anything. I have so many languages I want to learn. I know some American Sign Language that I learned as a kid. Mostly seasons, numbers, letters,months. But i never learned to make sentences. I'd love to learn German and Russian. I think they are both beautiful languages. My husband took etemology and some German in college so he teaches me what he remembers here and there.
A book series I love has frequent German that I'm always translating. I also love the show Grimm and it has a lot of German I'd love to learn, I'm going to add this book of easy learning for German
Hey Philipp, wie war denn der Urlaub?" "Gräßlich! Im Hotel hatte ich Zimmernummer hundert. Und vom Türschild ist die Eins abgefallen!"
I love that this video has the English and German lyrics!
What languages have you studied? What made you choose Russian?
I used this book a while ago and really liked it.
This one also looks like it would be good.
This book was very helpful in learning some of the stranger parts of German grammar and conjugation: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Learning-German-Book-understand/dp/159869989X/
I think watching dubbed/subbed videos in German would be extremely helpful! I have heard of Yabla (https://www.yabla.com/) but I was trying to put off the subscription-based things until I really wanted to push myself to the next level. I will look into the Clozemaster site though.
https://www.amazon.de/Everything-Learning-German-Book-understand/dp/159869989X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1499458538&sr=8-3&keywords=learn+german
I think I'll just order this one
Yes! As for books these one's have really helped me:
I know I have more but these are my favorites! As for movies/shows.. when I watch like youtube videos (try 'easy german') or kids shows I tend to watch them without subtitles. If I'm watching an adult movie/show I pretty much have to use subtitles otherwise I can't pick up anything. I usually put the subtitles in German though, because I read better than I listen!
Let me know if I can help you with anything else :)
To best dead honest, I do not know. I only know middle eastern languages and they are very different from Latin based languages. I would try to do all types of sentences at the same time; five of one type, four of another, three... While I was learning however, I took what I wanted to say and put it in a basic translation, to the best of my ability. Then, I had my friends tell me how to fix it and what i did wrong. I learned almost entirely through trial and error. When you try to learn these things with baby steps, and you fully understand a step before you move on, your speaking, writing, etc. will be natural and automatic the more you use it.
Once you have found a native speaker, who is willing to help you on a daily basis, I would ask him what he would think would be best to start with in each step. Or, you could buy a book such as this. It may seems stupid, but a book designed for children would also be helpful.
All I can say is good luck on learning. I promise you if you go slow and steady you will learn.
If what you want to achieve is A1 and nothing beyond, you best bet would be getting one of the many course books:
A arguably better alternative would be the free online course offered by Deutsche Welle (http://deutschkurse.dw.de/KursPlattform/WebObjects/KursPlattform.woa/wo/6.1). Do register and try it. Really valuable resource. Together with Deutsch – warum nicht? (http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/deutsch-warum-nicht/s-2163) you can go far. (In case you didn't realise already, both the sound files and pdf notes can be found on the right, featuring four series.)
Maybe the only problem you would encounter is speaking. The speaking test is actually like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGNd-6pDkEI), and you may panic if you don't already speak in German for a several hours. Try to find someone who speaks German and wants to do a language exchange with you. (http://www.language-exchanges.org/) is one of them. You may as well find one on Reddit.
By the way, if you really want to have a strong command of German sooner or later, there are some good, though popular (popular doesn't always mean bad) books for foundation, apart from your already awesome German for Reading:
If you insist on getting a grammar book, a nice start would be:
And eventually you may want to take down the boss:
Finally I recommend you to take a look at my favourite reading material when I started, Studien und Plaudereien (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22160), freely offered by Project Gutenberg.
I want to learn German! For one, because my little cousins live in Germany and I would love to be able to speak to them in German rather than French or English. I will also be studying in either Switzerland or Austria (I haven't been assigned yet) for two weeks on a clinical assignment to attend some medical conferences. This will be in the next few years so It's important to me to at least have some grasp on the language.
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I like Schubert
Lehrer zum Schüler: ''Für diese Frechheit schreibst Du hundert Mal, 'Ich bin ein fauler Kerl' und lässt es anschließend von Deinem Vater unterschreiben!''
I use Duolingo which is pretty helpful but they don't really explain grammar. You kind of just have to pick it up as you go. LiveMocha is pretty cool too because you can have people rate how well you speak.
Have you been to /r/languagelearning ? TONS of awesome links to subbredits and resources.