become fluent in German

I am teaching myself by listening to German music, hopefully I will find a better way to teach myself.

be a conversationalist in German wouldn’t be bad.
Hallo,
Guten Tag.
Wie gehts?...

and so on.

I’ve taken German classes for 5 of the past 6 years (I skipped out on my freshman year of college). This past semester I took a literature class and an advanced language class, but I still don’t feel all that comfortable speaking, even if I can write decent essays and understand all that’s spoken to me. What’s it gonna take?

I have been living in Germany for 8 months now and I’m still not quite there. For a couple of reasons really, laziness and the allure of my English speaking friends here (including an American Boyfriend). Well the most of them are going home for the summer so I have decided to use this oppurtunity to study and speak exclusively German with my flatmates. I hope to be fluent by the end of summer (Sept 10th is my goal!)

My German copy of ‘Heidi’ by Johanna Spyri arrived today ^. I love Bookmooch so much. The small problem with this book, however, is that I thought it was for children. Small children, to be precise, who have the same level of German as me.
Unfortunately this is not the case. The book is 334 pages long, and looks incredibly difficult. I’m lost already, and I’m only on the first page.
I think I will be able to call myself ‘fluent’ in German when I can read this book (and understand it) in the same time that it would take me to read a book of this length in English.
Is that a good goal?

Hmm. I’ve been learning for 2 years. If the average time it takes is 6 years, that means I only have 4 more years, right?

Aside from translating a sentence so wrong that I basicly said my aunts husband is gay, instead of my aunts husband is hot (like he is warm so turn down the heat, not mmm Hot!) It was the teachers sentence, not mine when the hell would I say that anyway?

I am in my third college level German class and am now learning the Genative case. I was never even that smart about English lol!!! I will speak fluent German this year!!! I even have a tutor twice a week now so thats about 7.5 hours of structured learning a week plus my own study time and of course Hausaufgabe (Homework) :)

I have so many German friends it was the obvious next choice. I love languages, and this is the one I am on now. I will be completing my second class this semseter, and I will spend a month in Germany this summer. I am excited about undertaking this challenge!

god, it’s just the fact i love languages. i like English and i speak and write it pretty fluently… im happy about that^^