Help learning German

[coinlord]

ello there,

I am asking for help in learning German.  I have one busy person helping when the person can.  Having others will lower pressure on the first.  Pleaase respond 


Jack

[H.-P.]

Hi Jack,

how can I help you exactly?

[KaiserDark]

Best way for learning an another language is to consume media in the language of interest.
I learn my english by comics, tv-series, us-/en- Sites of interest (game-info etc.).
Ok, i had some basics of en in school, i dont think you've some in german ^^.
I can only suggest to (import?) dvd's/blue-rays/whatever where you can watch the movie
in german language and with english subtitle.

[LordProtektor]

Best way for learning an another language is to consume media in the language of interest.

I'd say best way would be to go on a vacation to Germany 

If that is not possible, german literature has made some nice peaces you know... 

[H.-P.]

Maybe the Goethe-Institute is near to your residence. Its a german non-profit cultural Institute promoting the study of the german language.

[KaiserDark]

I'd say best way would be to go on a vacation to Germany 

Would'nt bet on that...
My cousin from poland once was visiting me, for lerning german, but what we did was talking polish, not german ...
It was more i learn more my old language than he was learning german ... xD

[coinlord]

ello all;

Thanks for all the replys.  I liked the Germany trip idea.  Problem is complete lack of funding.

I might give German texts, etc more thoght after I get further in to it.  At moment I am pretty much pre basics.

I'm going to look into the Goethe Institute.

Right now I'm thinking of working Duetsch Learnen to build up vocab.  I'll like somebody to check sentance attempts, occasionally help teach.

thanks all,

Jack

[coinlord]

First question:

why on duetsch lernern's word list do some words seem two spellings in certain conjugations?

ex: Die Schule, Die Schulen?

Second:  will accept sentance requests based on the word lists from lesson 1(beginners) for practice 

Jack

[FH]

why on duetsch lernern's word list do some words seem two spellings in certain conjugations?

ex: Die Schule, Die Schulen?

Oh, you will have a lot of fun with German (it's "Deutsch", btw ), we often spell words differently for specific situations.
In this case it's easy, "Schule" is singular while "Schulen" is plural, like "School, Schools".

[Napi96]

First question:

why on duetsch lernern's word list do some words seem two spellings in certain conjugations?

ex: Die Schule, Die Schulen?

Second:  will accept sentance requests based on the word lists from lesson 1(beginners) for practice 

Jack

okay... I think you should know, that the plural forms of some nouns looking like a new noun^^ but: Hey, I never saw an english speaking person learning german as fast as you

ehm... I don't understand your second question^^ My head hurts, sorry...  I saw that on deutsch-lernen.com the lessons are on german^^
did you do the exercise in lesson 1? I took a look at it and have to say... wow... if you understand all of this germans clauses you're very good in learning vocabulary^^
Keep on good work *Übung macht den Meister *

[coinlord]

Hallo

As for the exercise, I'm juist going back in forth.  I'm just studying to get to reading skill.over time i expect it to sink further in. 

New question:  Are the indeffinte articles meant to be suffixes for plurals, but not the singular?

Bitte,
Jack

[LordProtektor]

Hallo

As for the exercise, I'm juist going back in forth.  I'm just studying to get to reading skill.over time i expect it to sink further in. 

New question:  Are the indeffinte articles meant to be suffixes for plurals, but not the singular?

Bitte,
Jack

defined articles can be used for both, singulars and plurals. Undefined articles can be used for both, too. But in the plural you don't mention them, they are insivible in some way.




It's almost like in English.

unbestimmte Artikel, singular - plural: (m.)  ein Haus - Häuser (f.) eine Frau - Frauen (n.) ein Ding - Dinge

bestimmte Artikel, singular - plural: (m.) das Haus - die Häuser (f.)  die Frau - die Frauen (n.) das Ding - die Dinge

Translation:
undefined articles, singular - plural:  a house - houses  a woman - women  a thing - things		defined articles, singular - plural:  the house - the houses  the woman - the women  the thing - the things

for inflexion check:
http://www.canoo.net/services/OnlineGrammar/InflectionRules/FRegeln-Art/Art-Indef.html

also, I may suggest to you, using a professional website like www.babbel.com instead of a gaming-forum. Honestly ;-)

[coinlord]

LordProtektor (should I call you Oliver 

The reason for German studies here is to learn from the clever people present.  They get to be amused by my attempts to understand, and soon, my attempts to type in German.  It may not be normal, but then again, what is normal in a computer world.

Bitte;
Jack

[coinlord]

Hallo,


This is my attempt to take words listed at the end of a lesson and make sentances out of them.  Enjoy and try not to laugh to hard.


Here is my first scribbings in German:

   Ich gehe eine Schule an Berlin.  Wir kommen von Spanien lernen sprechen und schreiben Duetsch, nicht Englisch.  Mein Mutter schreibt Buchen über Wein und Italien.  Mein Vater wohen ist ein nach Hause und ein groß Firma en München.  Er schreibt viele Briefen an arbeit.  Es nicht gut heißen spat.

Herr Jack

[Napi96]

Hallo,


This is my attempt to take words listed at the end of a lesson and make sentances out of them.  Enjoy and try not to laugh to hard.


Here is my first scribbings in German:

   Ich gehe eine Schule an Berlin.  Wir kommen von Spanien lernen sprechen und schreiben Duetsch, nicht Englisch.  Mein Mutter schreibt Buchen über Wein und Italien.  Mein Vater wohen ist ein nach Hause und ein groß Firma en München.  Er schreibt viele Briefen an arbeit.  Es nicht gut heißen spat.

Herr Jack

Hey, looks fine but there a many faults in it... don't worry, the first year I learned english I wasn't so good^^
I would be happy, if you could give us the english version of your text, that makes it easier for you for finding faults...

I put the words in the correct order for helping you:

Ich gehe in eine Schule in Berlin. Wir kommen aus Spanien und lernen Deutsch zu sprechen und zu schreiben, nicht Englisch. Meine Mutter schreibt Bü(ue)cher über Wein und Italien.
 ( I don't understand you translation, 'cause "Buche(n)" is a tree's species^^ please tell us the english clauses, so we can help you and, sorry, but I don't understand the last three sentences... I see that you learned really good vocabulary, but your grammar isn't nice :-/ and some words a (very) wrong...

I think you'll get it, but it will takes some time... but you're learning just for a few weeks and so I can say, "wow"...

Vocabulary to learn:

ein Buch - a book
Buecher/Bücher - books
Deutsch - German
in - in
wohnen - (to) live (in a house, an appartment,...; Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, New York, L.A. D.C.,...) | Ich wohne in einem Haus in Stuttgart. - I live in a house in Stuttgart. (I hope you understand )
ein Brief - a letter/ a mail
Briefe - letters/ mails
Ich gehe in/auf eine Schule in Berlin - I'm going to a school in Berlin.
eine Buche - a beech (tree)

I hope I can help you with this