#imlearninggerman

[julietdreams]

For germanlearning people,really fun!

[imlearninglanguages]

Reading in a gloomy afternoon.

[imlearninglanguages]

Hey, regarding your "I'm trying to convince myself German is fun": Did you ever try to have a closer look at German expressions and proverbs? Some of them are so absurd and funny, like e.g. "jemanden Löcher in den Bauch fragen", you can't possibly give up. If you want to, we can do a kind of language tandem; I'm a German native speaker, so whenever you struggle with anything, just feel free to ask. It just might take me a while to respond, I'm still in Spain right now. :) Karo

Hi! Thank you so much for your offer but I don’t think that German is boring, it’s very funny actually! I love how many crazy words you can create. How can anyone not see the beauty of something like: “Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaenswitwe”?! ;)

[imlearninglanguages]

Hey! In one of your previous answers, you've told that you have a book with phonetic exercises and notes about morphology. Could you tell me the author, please?thank you! xo thank you

The book about German phonetics is “Kursbuch Phonetik. Lehr- und Übungsbuch”. The notes about morphology that I was talking about are handouts from my teacher and they’re written in Italian so I don’t think they would be helpful to anybody here. In that ask I forgot to mention another textbook about vocabulary: Lernwortschatz Deutsch (there’s an German-Italian version as well as German-French and German-Spanish).

[imlearninglanguages]

Hey :) I'm also studying German and was wondering what material you use to study 😃

Hi! I’m studying German at university so I have to use the material they give me at lesson. I have a textbook with grammar explanations, exercises and readings to do; a children book to read and translate (Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel by Uwe Timm); a series of newspaper articles about German culture. Then I have some materials about linguistics (a whole textbook with phonetic exercises, notes about morphology and few specialized essays).In my free time I also use Duolingo and Memrise to learn new vocabulary and make practice :)

[imlearninglanguages]

jemandem Löcher in den Bauch fragen

lit. “to ask someone holes in the belly” meaning “to pester someone with questions”

[imlearninglanguages]

Deutsch lernen macht viel Spaß!(I'm trying to convince myself that my German is not an absolute mess)

[imlearninglanguages]

Heyy I am learning German for A level and I feel like I am struggling... How do you study for languages? How do you learn grammar.. other than memorising a few sentences and switching out words? How can you learn to pronounce things properly? My british accent is really strong and it's actually embarassing xD thanks 😁

Hi! Studying languages is not that easy as it sounds but I’m sure you can do it! 

In my opinion grammar is crucial. You have to learn the basic rules to be able to create even the simplest sentence. To learn German it’s so so important to learn first the right order of the words in a sentence, differences between regular and irregular verbs and of course articles and adjectives’ declensions. If you don’t learn these basics, you’re not going anywhere. To learn them I suggest you to get a textbook (but I’m sure you’ve it already) and really understand how those rules work. Then you can do a lot of exercises to test yourself and the next step is reading a lot. It doesn’t really matter what you read (newspaper, wikipedia articles, blogs, …) but doing it will help you comprehend how to use the grammar rules in the everyday language and not only in “fake” sentences of the exercise book. You also asked me about pronunciation. I’m a little skeptic about learning the perfect pronunciation because I don’t think it exist. On most dictionaries for every word there is its IPA (international phonetic alphabeth) transcription that can be useful to learn how the perfect pronunciation should be but listening to music, watching videos and repeating after that works just as fine.Viel Glück! :)