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I would really like to learn german and I’ve been teaching myself for a while now.
I’m already signed up for livemocha and I’m currently saving up for Rosetta Stone, but in the meantime what are some other sites for me to visit to help me along the way?

Try:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/

http://www.babelnation.com/german/courses/index.html

http://www.german-grammar.de/grammar/content/english_german_table_of_content.htm

http://www.utils.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/

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caramelturtles (17Nov08 6 hours ago)
sitting my with my Dad( a few days ago) I suddenly found my self able to communicate with a few questions in German! why am I posting this now…I have been a fan for a while. My daughter & our dog LOVE your videos too! My daughter was able to ask her Opa how he was in German! 4 years of high school did not teach me the accent & the ability to remember as much as your little tune! Way to go JC. ***My Dad knows nothing of youtube BUT he now knows of your song!

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I really want to learn German and I am also learning French right now so I wont be able to take classes or anything but I am dedicated to learning it.

What I really need, is something 100% free and easy that will let me learn German and also to be able to remember it. You know, through pictures and stuff like that. Websites would work great since that is what I’m mostly aiming at.

Thanks ALOT!

Speaking or writing in German?

There are many good books for learning German (Everything German book, etc). However, German grammar can get rather confusing. If you’re like me, the books’ explanations on grammar probably aren’t enough.

If you’re looking to actually speak German, I would look for something like Rosetta Stone or an actual German class. Pronunciation isn’t too beastly, but trying to teach yourself how to read/write/speak german is enough. I’ve been taking German in high school, and the pronunciation comes naturally after awhile. But when you’re teaching yourself, it’s rather forced.

i am moving to germany for 10 months as a foreign exchange student. is this enough time to learn german fluently? i know very little german and i will be going to a gymnasium and i will be 15.

As said in the other same question… If you take intensive courses, you might able to communicate basic things within 3 monthes, and maybe speak fluent german at the end of the year. Be prepared to talk as much as possilbe and tell people to stop talking englisch with you and you will succeed (trust me everyone will talk english to you otherwhise)

TV-report about a german language school in Munich.

Watch the video!!! It´s worth it.
www.sprachtrainings.de
A language is most easily learned in childhood. You learned your mother-tongue joyfully and effortlessly.
Before you ever saw the inside of a school, you spoke freely with nary a care. You formed fluent sentences
without having studied grammar.
The prize-winning Alpha College Method takes the natural learning behavior of children and scientifically
adapts it for adults.

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I am going to Germany in 3 Month and I wanted to learn some basic German. Any Ideas where i can learn it fast?

There are a lot of cool different Programs that you can download out there. Rosetta Stone and Rocket Language are the best ones in my opinion. They are not like those boring mp3 courses. They are fun and they actually work. Rocket Language is a lot cheaper then rosetta stone but its just as good. Here I give you the link

http://www.LearnGermanNow.info

http://www.rosettastone.com

Click on http://www.learngermannow.net to get a bunch of free German Phrases videos and Tips That will help you speak German in no time – Click http://www.learngermannow.net Now.

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I’m going to be doing a lot of traveling in north western europe when I grow up, maybe even live there since that’s where my family is from. So, I want to learn a lot of germanic languages. I’m going to take german 1 this year, & if I learn german I’ll move onto dutch, since I heard that’s the closest to german. Thanks.

Since English, Swedish, and German are all Germanic languages you shouldn’t have too much difficulty[mostly with vocab] but remember learning a new language is never completely easy so there will be some challenges.

In the grand scheme of things, how hard is it to learn German? I am fluent in English and have studied 3 1/2 years of French and am wanting to take up a new language. How hard is German to learn? Is it hard to learn German when you are used to a romance language such as French? OR is German a bit easier since it is a teutonic language like English? Thanks in advance!

If you knew Latin it would be much easier to learn the German language.
But even if you knew Latin German is much harder to learn.
The adjective shows three declination-schemes depending on which accompanying word you have to choose (definite article, indefinite article or no article).
P. ex.
the great man
der groß-e Mann

a great man
ein groß-er Mann

great man
groß-er Mann

You have to differentiate and learn four cases:
Nom.: der Mann
Gen.: des Mann-es
Dat.: dem Mann
Akk.: den Mann

Linked with the definite article and an adjective you got:
Nom.: der groß-e Mann
Gen.: des groß-en Mann-es
Dat.: dem groß-en Mann
Akk.: den groß-en Mann

If you have to use the indefinite article you got:
Nom: ein groß-er Mann
Gen.: ein-es groß-en Mann-es
Dat.: ein-em groß-en Mann
Akk.: ein-en groß-en Mann

Without any article you got the same forms without the indefinite article:
Nom: groß-er Mann
Gen.: groß-en Mann-es
Dat.: groß-em Mann
Akk.: groß-en Mann

This is the masculine gender; in German you have also the feminine and the neuter gender:
the man – the woman – the child
der Mann – die Frau – das Kind

Okay, masculine and neuter gender are declinated similarily, except of the Akk. neutr. which is formally identical with the Nominative (as in Latin).

This is much harder than in French where no declination is found.
Somewhat likened these both languages are in their conjugation of the verbs – this conjugation shows a multifarious picture of forms and irregular verbs.
Take the personal endings of a regular verb in present time:
fragen (to ask)
ich frag-e
du frag-st
er/sie/es frag-t
wir frag-en
ihr frag-t
sie frag-en

German is my maternal language and I estimate it – but as we natural speakers of German say:
"Deutsche Sprach’, schwere Sprach’." That means:
"German language is a hard language."
But hey, we love it – otherwise there wouldn’t so much stuff to discuss and argue.

Hello and welcome to German 1. Lesson 3 of this German course deals with the plural of the definite article and the plural formation of German nouns. Thank you for watching.

http://www.deutsch-online-lernen.com

If you would like to watch this video in high quality, please click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlmN11ZvPLY&fmt=18

German 1

Lesson 1: “sein” – present tense.
The personal pronouns
Lesson 2: The grammatical gender
Lesson 3: The grammatical number
Lesson 4: The grammatical case
Lesson 5: The definite article
– forms
Lesson 6: The definite article
– nominative and genitive
Lesson 7: The definite article
– dative and accusative
Lesson 8: “haben” – present tense
Lesson 9: The conjugation system
Lesson 10: The verb – present tense endings
Lesson 11: The verb – irregular present tense
Lesson 12: The singular noun – n-declension
Lesson 13: The singular noun – s-declension (1)
Lesson 14: The singular noun – s-declension (2)
Lesson 15: The singular noun – s-declension (3)
Lesson 16: The singular noun – zero declension
Lesson 17: The plural noun – declension
Lesson 18: The indefinite article – forms
Lesson 19: The indefinite article – nominative and genitive

Deutschkurs – German course

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