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I am 15 years old and I speak english. I lived in USA all my life. I want to learn german but what ways are there and what is the average length of time to learn it? What if I go on a game that only has german words will I adapt to it?

Depending on exposure, effort/motivation, and aptitude, most people can learn to speak German within 6 to 9 months, but we are talking relatively basic here. German grammar and syntax are quite hard for some people to get their mind around, and differ quite considerably between spoken and written German. In my experience only a prolonged stay in an environment of native speakers and extensive reading makes you really proficient.

Every language learner needs to develop two different aspects:
1. receptive, i.e understanding in speech and writing, and
2. productive, i.e. writing and speaking in the foreign language.

Both of them are only learned by doing, the second being the more difficult and more important one. Contrary to common belief, translating from your native language into the second one is not really needed. It is helpful for some people, though. Likewise, a game might help you to get into it, but there really is no other way than to write in German yourself. Speaking comes later – in a conversation the topic might have changed, or a painfullly long silence developed, by the time you find the words to answer.

Here’s a free site to meet loads of Germans improving their English, who will help with your German in return: http://www.livemocha.com/
Careful with their German course though – it’s not very good, but people will set you right about mistakes. One of the best courses is the BBC one: http://freelanguage.org/learn-german/bbc-languages-german
Here’s a site for the grammar:http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/german/grammar/grammar.htm

There are many more sites about, just google "learning German"

I am learning German and I need some interesting websites to learn from. Do you know any cool ones? Share them with me!

Try this site.

Hello and welcome to German 1.

Lesson 2 will show you how articles and pronouns in the German language follow the grammatical gender of nouns.

Enjoy the video.

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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

German language – Deutsch

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I am in germany and looking to learn german while i am here. What should i do in order to learn german. Secondly, how long does it normally takes to be learn german?

Probably Berlitz classes. 1 class is about 8 weeks (2times a week, but thats flexibel -ask them)
There you learn the pronunciation best.

let me know what you think!
when i had the idea of people submitting words, at first i was thinking i was just gonna do one video, pronouncing a whole lot of words in a short time. but once i started thinking about pronunciation problems in general, i felt it may be a lot clearer if i explained a bit more about the words?
would you agree or prefer a short video with just WORD after WORD?
hope you’re all good,
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Schadenfreude (malicious joy)
grün (green)
Lieblingsfreizeitbeschäftigung (favorite free time activity)
Ärzte (doctors)
Kirsche (cherry)
Kirche (church)
Küche (kitchen)

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I want to learn German and I hear Rosetta Stone is very useful. Though I want to know how much I’m getting into.

Depends how often you use Rosetta Stone, I learned Spanish in 4 months and French in 6 months using Rosetta Stone. Good luck in learning German, Wish you all the best!

My first language is english, and I have been speaking french for almost four years now, but I have recently decided it is time to learn another language.

Next year, if all goes well, I am hoping to exchange to Germany for my second year of high school. The problem is that I only have about eight months to learn the language, I barely know any German but I seem to learn quite fast so do you think it is possible?

Should I buy a computer program or take classes? What do you think would be the best way to learn?

German is the easiest langauge to learn if you speak English, and visa versa, if you were able to learn French german will be easier. Since you have learned French you know about masculin and feminine word that will be of some help to you. Remember in german all words are pronounced as as writen there is no silent letters everything you see you say vowels are most all times not spoken hard like English and there are many simalarities in words much of English has come from german. In 8 months if you really try hard and are good at picking up on other langauges you should learn alot. Gute nacht und habe eine glucklisch 8 monate in schule. Oh ya when you see a letter that looks like a Capitol B that doest connect at the bottom it’s really just a short form for a double ss ich bin gut= iam good, ich bin= I am, tip ich bin heiss should mean I am hot, but it translate to in german I am horny LOL ich bin warm= iam gay LOL simple mistake learning I did it was embarassing when found out what I was saying LOL good luck.

Hello and welcome to German 1. In lesson 19 we will practice all nominative and genitive forms of the indefinite article. Enjoy the video.

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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

German indefinite article – Deutsch unbestimmter Artikel

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I need to learn German, but there’s so many CDs, books, websites and whatnot to choose from I don’t know which one to use. I don’t really care if you have to buy it (Though free is always better), I just need to be able to hold a conversation in German, learn the basic everyday things and the like.
Any suggestions on what to use?

watch inspector rex. it is a german show and it really helped me when i was learning german