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clever cloggs 11 hours ago

Just had a good idea, while watching a German (subtitled) soap on Internet – one of my children is learning German at school, and i might as well use his exercise books to teach myself… Also the German people i know will probably be very willing to help out…

Step one is taken then…
Now for my fluent conversations – and understanding the language when spoken to me… Weyhey!!!



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Untitled 2 days ago

i want to learn german



Kelso A nightmare straight from an Otto Dix.

Finding resource materials... 2 days ago

German courses aren’t offered at the school(s) I’m attending/will be attending in the future, so I’ll be taking on language myself. Hooray for independent learning!

The only tricky part will be finding quality resource materials (and, if possible, classes and tutoring options) for the language. Hit and miss, I suppose.

I’m starting to realize just how much I like foreign languages. :-)



Adjectives Exercise :) 4 days ago

Das Auto ist nicht weiß. Es ist silbern.
Die Blume ist lila. Es ist nicht orange.
Die Münze ist silbern. Es ist nicht golden.
Das Baum ist nicht grün. Es ist orange.
Das haus ist rot. Es ist nicht gelb.
Die Handtasche ist schwarz. Es ist nicht weiß.



laika43 if you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always got

Baby Steps. 5 days ago

I have decided to practise for 30 minutes a week. That is truly a tiny goal! But I hope to increase my study time as I go along so that eventually my practise time will be a natural habit. I am in no rush (I’m learning because I am interested not because I am moving to Germany or taking examinations in the language). Hopefully by doing it this way I will actually stick to my goal.



Bill I cannot wait for school to end again.

Finally a good test! 1 week ago

Well, I still made mistakes that I shouldn’t have made and mispelled some words, but overall it was pretty solid. I got 102% with the 9% extra credit that I had gotten. So, without the extra credit I had gotten a 93% which is a solid A-. I can appreciate this test score and I will try to do much better on the next test.



hanikac is crazy.

Formal lessons 2 weeks ago

I finished Pimsleur German 1 and 2. They were GREAT! Now I’m taking Conversational German I at my community college and it’s started a bit slow but I’m glad I have something that kind of forces me to keep studying. I haven’t been using my other books or software much lately, but they do seem good; I just wish I could figure out a structured way of using them in addition to my classes.
At this point, I can understand a good amount of what I read and hear, but I’m still not confident speaking much. I think my accent is getting better, though.



Bill I cannot wait for school to end again.

Test on Chapter 3..... Ist er dich Onkel. (WRONG) 2 weeks ago

Ist er dein Onkel. (RIGHT) I totally mixed up the accusitive form of du and the possesive form of du on the test I took overall, it cost me a cool 19.5 points on the test. I cannot believe I did that; however, I will never mix them up again. The 19.5 point loss on the test hurt; well, it hurt me more than my grade.



Getting there 3 weeks ago

Ich habe zwei Jahren an der Opernstudio studeirt, und dann habe ich eine Deutschlehrerin gefindet. Heute, ich kann gut Deutsch sprechen, aber ich weiss nur ein bisschen Grammatik.

Trotzdem, die Klassen haben mir sehr gut gefaellt. Ich muss zwei Wettbewerbe machen, die beide finden in November statt. Die Preiz ist ein Vortrag in Koeln und in Wiesbaden. Es gibt ein Vorsingen und dann eine Vorstellung auf Deutsch. Werde ich die Gewinnerin sein? Wir werden sehen.



Untitled 4 weeks ago

Learn 10 words every day.



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