Trying to learn German But

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:18 pm

Cant for the life of me find a "quality" book/pdf or software app thats worth a shit..

Id just do the whole normal book thing, but it would be nice to have something while driving too

..

anyways, anyone know of any decent learning tools?

Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:19 pm

Mein Kampf

I heard it's the only one that matters.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:22 pm

Foo wrote:Mein Kampf

I heard it's the only one that matters.

Already own it, and its not exactly a learning book for languages

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:26 pm

german. not the easiest of languages :g

and get yourself a tutor. you wont be able to get the pronouncuation right with a book. esp when english speaking folks pronounce "ch' as "k" :s

Post by **Ryoki** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:42 pm

Go on vacation, shag a german girl, start a relationship.

Post by **raw** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:43 pm

arschgeburt

Post by **glossy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:47 pm

Das ist wo?

Sprung, wo, sprung!

Gut wo

Post by **Freakaloin** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:10 pm

danke...

Post by **plained** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:12 pm

dunekoff 4 dummies?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:41 pm

Some real help would be nice..

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:44 pm

i gave a serious reply, hobo. take heed, i tells you

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:53 pm

MKJ wrote:i gave a serious reply, hobo. take heed, i tells you

Yeah, Thanks

Thing is, im in fucking kansas, no dice finding someone here that speaks anything but english, spanish, french, or durka durka

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:55 pm

surely there are teachers over there, maybe even german teachers.
call some international company (posing as some survey thingy) and ask them if they ever give their employees tranings in other languages, and where.
then call them

Post by **plained** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:55 pm

i guess you could get some german cinema and put the subtitles on.

i learn ok like that but certainly not everything

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:06 pm

SOAPboy wrote:Cant for the life of me find a "quality" book/pdf or software app thats worth a shit..

Id just do the whole normal book thing, but it would be nice to have something while driving too ..

anyways, anyone know of any decent learning tools?

http://www.rosettastone.com

I've been using it to learn Danish. Sign up for the free demo, they will send you on or 2 emails with a coupon for 40% off (well at least they did back when I signed up)

http://www.rosettastone.com/ind/free_demo

You'll find that it's a pretty cool way to learn a language, the program works only in the language you are learning it does not use your native language at all. You learn as you did when you were a child. And you pick things up quickly. It has 4 methods of learning including speech comparison to see how well your pronunciation is.

Post by **seremtan** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:05 pm

the quickest way to learn german would be to replace your brain with the brain of someone who can speak german. hardware upgrades are teh win

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:53 pm

Gut into ze train.

Post by **Pext** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:19 pm

german is not that hard, i think. building phrases is rather easy once you've understood what they consist of.

the only real work you have to do is to learn some basic vocabulary first and then go all the way with a combination of audio books/the same book written ~ and then translate and try to speak the sentences to yourself.
and/or watch some movies on german, to get used to the language ( you don't even have to bother with crappy german movies, most EU torrent sites have mainstream movies on german as well)

Post by **Pext** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:26 pm

and start to post on some german forum as soon as you are familiar enough with it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:58 pm

I learned 5 languages using google translator.

Post by **feedback** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:21 pm

German vocab is really easy, the difficult part is the grammar and conjugation. In German, almost everything is conjugated.

Post by **Pext** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:25 pm

nah... grammar is easy. only if you want to write stuff, it gets complicated. i mean: in english there's not that much of a difference between spoken and written language.
in german it's like two completely different worlds.

Post by **eepberries** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:41 pm

MKJ wrote:german. not the easiest of languages :g

and get yourself a tutor. you wont be able to get the pronouncuation right with a book. esp when english speaking folks pronounce "ch' as "k" :s

Are you kidding? German's pretty easy to learn. It has alot more similarities to English than any other language I know of. Honestly, languages like Spanish and French are harder to learn, not to mention languages from the middle east and asia.

Post by **menkent** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:46 pm

if you've already learned a foreign language (ie- are familiar with the vocabulary of grammar like accusative, dative, present perfect, etc) it'll be pretty easy.

if you're looking for a textbook i'd recommend "komm mit" or "deutsch na klar" if you're looking for a conversational knowledge. if you have a really mathematical brain and are comfortable learning languages then you could get something more advanced like "a practical review of german grammar" by Dippmann... but that might be too much for a beginner. if you're not comfortable with the linguistic/grammar terms, get "English Grammar for Students of German" as well.

as far as german-english dictionaries go, I'd stick to Langenscheidt and Harper-Collins. the Oxford dictionaries can be sort of dated.

Post by **menkent** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:49 pm

eepberries wrote:Are you kidding? German's pretty easy to learn. It has alot more similarities to English than any other language I know of. Honestly, languages like Spanish and French are harder to learn, not to mention languages from the middle east and asia.

dutch is even easier, though some of the phonetics gets dodgy.
i'm learning arabic now... much harder than french, which is in turn harder than german (imho).

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