Trying to learn German

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LostSheep7 said:
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French is easier than German for me.
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Same here. I managed to achieve fluency enough to have a simple conversation in French in less than six months.
I gave up on German in 3 months and don’t plan to ever start again
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i have given up on German also.
 
No Im American, but I have German/Irish blood and It’s been a great interest when I was a teenager. I was being told stories about my great grandmother and her family alot during that time.
 
No im not in college but might do some community theater
Thinking of consentrated virginity or a convent Inna couple of years.
I want to be a great saint in heaven like St Therese I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth.
 
It is far easier to immerse yourself in Spanish these days. Study is one thing, but you have to speak it regularly. Books, CDs, DVDs, TV shows, German restaurant visits.
 
As a german native speaker on an english speaking board, I can only advice you to search for a german forum and write there regulary. CAF is my english training, too 🙂
 
It is important if you often practice this language. It is desirable to live in the country whose language you are studying or often read literature, and use audio and video material.
It’s hard to learn the language, for example if the brains have not been girlish for a long time already😂 but everything is possible if you work hard.
God Bless!
 
It is a lot easier to learn your third or more language as you are used to breaking the code in how a language is built up. Listening to it spoken or sung also helps a lot. Read children’s books and nursery rhymes to start. Internet is a good help these days.

When I have taught children English, I have sung simple songs with the most common phrases, read books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar and all the children learnt the basics is a couple of months.

German is built up very much like this: This is the rule and these are the exceptions. When you know that, then it is all about learning more words. Learning the more advanced language to be able to read (and understand) a newspaper takes a lot of time for most people.
 
i was taught that to learn a language you must learn to think in the language.
of course, that is after you learn some basic grammar and vocabulary.
 
convertingtocatholic said:
Ich bin leanern Deutsch.
Ich möchte pizza
Ich leben Gott! Ich leben Jesus Christus.
Wie gehst?
Eins
Zwie
Trie

Ich bin Lied.
Für Mienen
Sünden.

Ich liebe du alle.

Du bist in meinem geben.
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Whoa! Watch the spelling, my friend! I think you were trying to say ‘I am sad for my sins’, but simply by putting I before E rather than E before I, you turned it into meaningless gibberish. Probably a good idea to keep your German-English dictionary handy when you are writing.
 
Lied, which you wrote, means song. Leid is sorry.

Mienen means faces, or visages, or aspects. Meinen is my.

Just trying to help! 😀
 
I think you have to love German, to learn German. Personally I do love German, although I haven’t had the time to get truly fluent.

(Now translate what I wrote … just kidding.)
 
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Both have regular pronunciation, which is good. French or Dutch are so much harder for me because you have to practice pronunciation a lot more.
 
Dan_Defender said:
Both have regular pronunciation, which is good. French or Dutch are so much harder for me because you have to practice pronunciation a lot more.
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French pronunciation is all but impossible for me to master. I had a much easier time with Dutch, and I’ve no idea why, since some of the vowel sounds (‘ui’, for example) seem to have no corollary in any other European language.
 
I got the point where I could read and write… but when I spoke nobody understood me 😐
 
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