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Post by Skye on Oct 14, 2016 18:13:00 GMT -5
Hallo! Mein Deutch ist nicht gut. XD (Haven't done a lesson in a while, sorta teaching myself with some books. So I'm rusty, probably gonna do some today and refresh my memory haha) (may i ask what you use? im also teaching myself, using primarily duolingo. i havent had the time to look up anything really good as secondary resources) (of course! Duolingo is great for learning words, but teaches pretty much no grammar or anything at else. At least, I've gone pretty far in duolingo German and it pretty much taught only words, at least for me. They try to teach proper 'grammar' and sentencing, though its very poor and I would highly suggest that you not just use duolingo. Anyways, I'll stop rambling. XD The first book I am going through is called German Demystified, so far its extremely helpful and at the beginning teaches you vocabulary, how to pronounce stuff, and some essential things to carry a conversation in German. (like asking names, introducing yourself, and the such) I have not gone through the whole course yet, though I would highly recommend it! ;u; I'll tell you another book I'm gonna use, though I haven't gone through it yet. Here's the name: The everything learning German book. Both are called 'second edition', so I'd probably recommend getting those editions unless you like some better. ^u^)
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Post by Skye on Oct 14, 2016 18:13:58 GMT -5
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Post by Sherk on Oct 14, 2016 20:08:56 GMT -5
Ja, Duolingo ist gut für Worte, und für mich. Aber ich habe Gramatik kannte.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Oct 15, 2016 21:12:16 GMT -5
german is on my long list of languages to learn. i've mastered latin, currently working on russian and italian, and will next be working on German. after that is french, spanish, irish, and dutch.
is German really as hard as everyone says it is?
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Post by Sherk on Oct 15, 2016 21:21:01 GMT -5
Nein, es ist nicht schwer. Grammatik ist sehr seltsam, aber die Worte sind änlich wie Englisch. (No, it isn't hard. Grammar is very weird, but the words are similar to English.)
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Oct 15, 2016 21:23:00 GMT -5
Nein, es ist nicht schwer. Grammatik ist sehr seltsam, aber die Worte sind änlich wie Englisch. (No, it isn't hard. Grammar is very weird, but the words are similar to English.) That's what it's always seemed to me. I've been scanning the other posts, and with my combination of English and Latin vocabulary, I could pick up the gist of what y'all were probably saying in some parts. In what way is the grammar weird? Could you give an example, compared to English?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 21:46:46 GMT -5
I personally didn't find it too hard, grant it I studied decently, but most of my struggles came from not understanding "language learning" so to say. Like, I would have a hard enough time figuring out what "present perfect" meant, let alone what a german word was in that form. I feel like if I had learned another language prior to German, learning it would have been easier- but German just happened to be my first foreign language. So I was not only dealing with the "how to German" but also the "how to foreign language".
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Oct 15, 2016 22:05:20 GMT -5
Sounds like you never learned grammar forms in English. I'm home schooled, so I've had a very rigorous education in grammar. So I think that, on top of an event better understanding of it through Latin, would mean learning German would be a lot easier.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 22:19:44 GMT -5
Yeah, it definitely helps to have a solid knowledge of English grammar before going into German- and really any other language. My English has improved so much since learning German.
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Post by Sherk on Oct 15, 2016 23:11:22 GMT -5
Past tense, basically. That's a whole mess, really. Gotta add the "haben" verb after the subject, and move the verb to the end, change it to the third person form, and add ge- in front of it. But there's a lot of exceptions. Sometimes you omit the ge-, or change it to plural form instead. Also, gendered nouns is a little difficult coming from English, which has none at all. The rules don't always make sense, though I've never been good at grammar.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Oct 15, 2016 23:19:42 GMT -5
That's interesting, I never knew nouns were engendered in German-- I thought that was only romance languages. Tbh, learning German sounds easier the more y'all explain it. From the way others described the language, I always had the idea that it was completely whacked out and chaotic, but it sounds relatively easy. I guess it's a relativity thing-- I've already mastered one foreign language and am working on two others, so it puts things in perspective. For instance, in Latin, there are so many irregular verbs that they grouped them into their own separate conjugation (the third, colloquially known as "the irregular conj"). So have to memorize irregularities like you mentioned with the past tense seems normal to me lol
I really want to learn German. The fantasy land in my novel series is based off Germany (and a little Russian)-- I wanted to step away from the cliche Victorian English/French era, but still wanted a cultural touchstone to center the faux country around. I chose Germany because I enjoy much of the 1800s folk culture and because I enjoy the harsh sound of the language.
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Post by Sherk on Oct 15, 2016 23:21:08 GMT -5
Deutsch ist sehr schön! Und Deutschland ist auch. c:
Gut Glück!
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Post by Aʟᴘɪɴᴇғᴇᴀᴛʜᴇʀ on Oct 16, 2016 12:50:26 GMT -5
Guten tag
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Post by sonnensturm1 on Oct 16, 2016 19:09:40 GMT -5
Oh wie süß alle reden deutsch <3 (cute how everyone speaks german)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 21:04:30 GMT -5
hallo ich bin auf diese Sachen neu.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 13:40:32 GMT -5
Hallo, Wie geht es euch Jungs? Ich bin irgendwie neu hier
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Post by sonnensturm1 on Oct 20, 2016 14:04:46 GMT -5
Hmm und jetzt :3
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Post by John 3:16 on Oct 20, 2016 23:00:20 GMT -5
hallo (picking up on duolingo practices again... anyone know of some other good services (preferably free lmao) i know duolingo doesn't have good grammar lessons)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 20:55:55 GMT -5
Ich Pyro!
Guten tag!
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Post by Kibui on Nov 11, 2016 22:09:47 GMT -5
Es ist vier Uhr morgens hier in Deutschland, aber hey wenigstens hab ich jetzt den deutschen unter den nicht englischsprachigen Threads gefunden
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Rainbow
kiddo
furry and fabulous
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Post by kiddo on Nov 11, 2016 22:37:57 GMT -5
•✒• okay guys, i think (since you guys seem to not know much grammar) i'm going to put some tips!
first thing: question word order. question word / verb / subject / everything else sometimes a question word isn't present, but that's okay, the rest would still he the same. phrases put in "everything else" can be swapped, it doesn't matter. example: wie alt ist sie? (how old is she)
when writing a statement: verb always goes second. subject must be touching the verb, therefore it can go in first or third location. if you choose to put the subject in 3rd, one of the "everything else" phrases go first. example: nach hause gehe ich später (i'm going home later)
remember, literal translations differ from how it would sound in english, so the second example would literally say "i go home later", but german doesn't have a form of "-ing", so "i go home later" is as close to a sound as you can get. they understand 'i go home later' the same as we would understand 'i'm going home later', basically.
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Post by Buffalo Mikan on Mar 29, 2017 2:30:48 GMT -5
Deine Augen glitzern wie Sterne! *_*
Zu mir oder zu dir? ;D
Duolingo <3
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Post by sonnensturm1 on Feb 10, 2018 18:23:55 GMT -5
Guten Morgen (um diesen thread ma wiederzubeleben). Es ist 00:23 Uhr und es sind wahrscheinlich immer noch -5 grad draußen!
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Post by 🔻Puppydawg🔻 on Feb 11, 2018 6:16:05 GMT -5
Hallo
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