The problem people have with languages, for me German was you have to study something you really like. For me it started with Rammstein, then I started reading mountain rescue stuff, then welding. You have to read what interests you. ;)
@@RPSchonherr I wonder how many German speakers now started out with Rammstein! I'm certainly one that is learning German because of Rammstein! I would also love to watch Das Boot and understand what is being said without the distraction of the subtitles!
I couldn't agree more on listening to native speakers. In English, we will normally drop the g in ing verbs as well. Like, "He is playin' with his friend outside." When I learned German, I also watched German television shows and movies. I also know sometimes in German you will drop vowels off of verbs. z.B. "Ich hab' das immer gemocht" Definitely, I would recommend listening to natives.
I think that depends on which dialect of English you are talking about : my impression is that dropping G's is more of an English or American thing ; here in Scotland it is just not done . While here in Scotland we do have Gaelic ( a language I do not speak ) , we do have an older language known as Scots ( and much old literature such as that of Robert Burns is written in it ) ; old Scots has much in common with German : words such as sair ( English would think it means sore , as in painful ) is exactly equivalent to the German Sehr , which means VERY . The Scots and the Germans still have an affinity and a healthy respect for each other , not sao much our cousins south of the border . Scots and French also have an affinity and there are also linguistic links .
the mistakes I see people make in learning a language is that they do not make it fun and keep judging themselves on how bad they are. Just keep going and get as much as you can.
Yes, indeed. I've also seen the reverse of that, me trying to tell people (that asked me for advice) about how in Spanish, obsessing about the differences between things like the basic past tenses (did / was doing) until they're forgetting to just enjoy being able to communicate with millions of people, you would have never met otherwise. Jeez, you just want to tell them (as politely as possible, of course) to STFU, hand them a bottle, and have them relax chemically, just enough, to see that it doesn't matter at all, to get everything 100% perfect. I'm a native English speaker, I still never get anything 100% correct, why should I stress myself out worrying about being 100% correct in any other language?
Not sure if people remember 1st year of school or maybe even as far back as before that and learning your native language, but that's how to learn a language. Mamma points to something and calls it what it is and when you get it right she says, "Yes, that's a ____." Then they'll read a picture book to you and on and on until you can say the words and understand what they mean and even read on your own. Then, you always have someone around speaking that language. Lessons can teach you some basics but immersion will get you there faster. Want to learn German? Be around people who speak it. Verstehe?
Yes , that is how I remember my first and only year of latin " Ecce , ecce , in pictura est puella " ; however the little I learned that year still helped me to make some sense of modern italian when I went there . My french is better , because I did six years of French , but my German is best , because , never formally studying any German at all , I actually lived there for a while , and dated a German girl . Verstehe das sehr gut ; ... genau . und kann ich verstehe hören und sprechen viel besser dann lesen und schreiben .
Thank you for this video. 😊 I felt like for me personally, I am learning German too slow? Even though each day I see little improvements! I am quite patient but at times it can be frustrating especially the grammar for me. As a English native I still think in English and not all the time comes out perfect in German. I am just trying to understand the grammar a bit more as well as speak to my German partner who has been ever so helpful, patient and supportive of me. I really enjoy your videos and funny enough I have only found your channel recently, but I am glad I have found it 😊
All the tips you've shared are the ones I've already done myself. Because I've took French in high school and (yes I took the fluent in 3 months) and learn the pitfalls of having a textbook in your face versus learning it like a small child. When I thought about my baby niece and how she learned a few English words at a time, ever since day one, my mind became a sponge and then, I go back and break it down and learned the formal AND informal terms. And yes, I have a German native friend who corrects my spelling :)
Just came across this video on my recommended and this was super helpful 😊 i've been having one on one German lessons with a tutor for the last ten weeks or so, and she has said some of these things! I'm finding that there is lots of grammar to learn..!! But I'm having fun with it 😊
#5 is the hardest to reconcile with, for me at least. I grew up learning to speak English in a southern US dialect, and it didn't seem strange to me at all, but after being in the military, and starting to travel and meet new people, from tons of other places and countries, I really became more acutely sensitive to other "similar" dialects, within different subsets of not only English, but, eventually, other languages as well. It's been very difficult for me across 4 languages to not point myself to the "familiar" dialect in my target languages. For instance, "southern US relaxed dialect" = Kansai dialect in Japanese, = Colombian Dialect in Spanish, = rolled R "swagger" dialects in German. At the end of the day really, I keep having to remind myself equally that, none of that matters, and I should just have begun at sticking with standard dialects, with some eventual peppering of idioms and odd words and/or set phrases of the target "end-of-the-road" dialect "one day at a time". :)
My best tip is to go and LIVE the language . I took six years of French at school ( 50 years ago ) , got my qualifications and was reasonably fluent back then , but never used it and have now forgotten most of it . On the other hand , I never studied any German formally , but I went and lived in germany for a while , dated a German girl for over a year and just picked up the language by listening and speaking . Even now , some 40 years on , I can understand German people when they talk , and can strike up a conversation . While I do know some written German , and can read some text - particularly technical German since I have always worked with classic Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz vehicles , and had to search through technical literature , sometimes with the help of friends , these things just stuck . To the extent that , when in Italy , and I don't speak Italian ) I ended up conversing in German with italians who don't speak English ; similarly in Tenerife , where there is a large ex pat German community , my rudimentary German served me well . perhaps the biggest mistake for English speakers is getting the word order wrong , since germans form their sentences differently , and also in numbers they use the old forms like 'four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie' .
Well, almost all of my videos are about learning German! :D If you have about 24 minutes to spare, I'd suggest watching this video: ruclips.net/video/mcG9kJ3BvwU/видео.html I'm explaining all my different video series and playlists there. :)
Good advice. I'd go a half-step further: When you learn a noun, also learn how to form the genitive singular. (The genitive case is similar to the possessive case in English, but also used after certain prepositions.) For example, the word for house is *Haus*. What you need to learn is: *das Haus, des Hauses, die Häuser*. This is the nominative singular, genitive singular, and nominative plural of *Haus* with the appropriate form of the definite article and tells you: *Haus* is neuter, the genitive singular is formed by adding *es*, and the plural changes the *a* to *ä* and adds *er*. This will appear in a good dictionary as: *Haus* _das_; *~es, Häuser*. *Apfel* (apple) is masculine, and the entry will be *Apfel* _der_; *~s, Äpfel*. *Kirche* (church) is feminine, and the genitive singular is the same as the nominative singular, while the plural adds an *n*. The entry will be: *Kirche* _die_; *~, ~n*.
I'm currently learning German. All these different cases are currently breaking my brain. My plan is to just keep learning and keep being confused until it all clicks together in one moment; like a baby suddenly transforming from a baby-speaker to a speaker in his native language. Wish me luck!
OK, if charging onward while confused works for you. I've always found it more effective to master what I encounter when I encounter it, before moving on to still more new concepts. There's usually a good reason for the order a textbook presents things in, and the rest of the book will tend to assume that you understand whatever was covered in earlier chapters. As for learning nouns, it's certainly more efficient to learn, for example, das Haus, die Häuser, than just Haus. If you learn the genitive singular as well, you'll actually have everything you'll ever need to know about Haus. As I tried to show, German dictionaries succinctly tell you what you need to know: Haus das; ~s, Häuser. I've found Duolingo helpful, and it's free. I read, copied, and pasted Duo's tips, whenever I encountered them, when working through the lessons. If you don't already have a grammar book you like, take a look at Schaum's German Grammar, 5th ed. Viel Glück! I think, as a stereotype, Germans don't believe in luck, or at least not in being lucky. ;-)
Too technical for me ; I just lived in germany for a while and dated a German girl for a year and a bit ; picked up more than I could from any textbooks ; even 40 years later I still converse comfortably with germans never studied any german at all .
Your third tip is amazing, but guest what! Making German friends is like hiking the Everest naked and barefoot... So maybe you want to talk and not only for practicing German but also because you want to make new friends, but you don't have someone who wants... Any piece of advice?
Thanks for the videos, I learned German in school but didn't try very hard it's only now 8 years later that I'm actually interested in learning so I'm trying to pick it back up. I'm planning a move to Berlin in September so these are really helpful thank you 😄
Hey Katie, thank you very much for your comment! I really love to get feedback like this. Knowing I could help is really motivational and really cool! I can relate as well: I wasn't interested in physics back in school, but now I'm much more interest in some physical theories and things. :)
VlogDave thanks for the reply, we're probably all a bit guilty of that from when we were younger 😂😂 definitely keep it up though I think I'm used to the over pronunciation of words because I feel like I can read German reasonably but I can't understand a native speak at all 😂😂 I think it's just something I have to practice though
One of the problems I've come across when helping my coworker learn to speak English is: that I don't always pronounce all the letter in a word. Take curtain or Mountain for example.. I don't pronounce the "T" in either word... So what she hears is "Curain and Monunain". And also Learning to using only English words when talking. Not Si or Nein.
Technically I did "Start from the wrong end", because most of my family speaks Plaudietsch, and I started learning Standard German because I wanted to see how they compare and contrast to each other. :P And there are also a lot of Swiss and German immigrants in my area (I'm from Canada), so I grew up hearing how words are actually pronounced rather than learning it from a teacher in a classroom. (Also, interesting fact: even though my parents don't speak Standard German, they can understand a lot of the written, because the song books in the church they were raised in were written in High German.)
I'm trying to teach myself German with as much "free" help as I can get and I've noticed that all the German words that start with SP make the schp sound. the ch at the end of words along with the Rs are the hardest for me. I never know when the R makes a sound because most lessons I've seen/had say the R is basically silent and ch sometimes sounds like sch other times it makes the ka sound. but I started teaching myself at the start of Oktober und Ich hope to be able to speak it fairly well by my birthday on Januar 8th. I can kind of read it so far and as you can see write/type it but I'm still very langsam with it. thanks for your help. oh and just to clarify Im not expecting to be an expert but I would like to be able to speak enough that should I go to Deutschland in Januar I'll be able to speak to someone.
Thanks for your great advices. I've been starting learn German for 1 month and this kinda information very helpful for me. Actually I study german with duolingo. It isn't the best, but anyway, at least it gives me general information about language. I have trouble with articles, like everyone who learn german :D Bu I think I'll cope with it one day) I remember, when I started to learn English at he first time, I thought I'll never be able to learn tenses. But today compare with last year it's more easy and clear for me. And your another advice, not to rely on classes, very essential too. I'm gonna study in Germany this year. Of course, in english. But I think it's a good chance to impove my german. And your last advice... I think it's the best. It's really a big problem when people start to learn ANYTHING new they think they must be the best. Shit. For my instance, it would be better to see videos about stuying in Germany on your channel. And more vlogs about learning German) Thank you!
"I remember, when I started to learn English at he first time, I thought I'll never be able to learn tenses" That sounds like me in Spanish. Remembering all the tense forms of irregular verbs: Ahhhh!
The exception of the pronunciation rule of the sch grapheme pronunciation is that you also pronounce the fricative postalveolar phoneme (sorry I don't have the symbol) when you have an S before a P or a T, for example: Sprache, springen, spielen or still, Stimme, Straße.
Great tips. (Edit if possible: “its article”. Not “it’s article” as in the graphic for tip #1.) spelling in English even crazier, s has five values, secure, sugar, measure, cows and aisle.
Hallo :) Dave, have you planned to make videos about word order in complex sentences? Or about word order in general? Es its sehr kompliziert fuer learners.. Especially for those who have not very strict word order in their native language T_T
Anna Den I already made a script for main clauses, I just need to film the video and edit everything. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I also made a lesson on sentence structure before. Use my main channel page and the little search bar there! :)
True, but it also depends on the progress of each learner, I think. It's better to start learning with other foreigners when you're already quite experienced with how the language is structured and the like.
thanks for the video , but is it necessary to learn how to drop the "e" in some verbs ? our teacher , which is half Arab half Deutsch always insisted on how to pronounce the letter "R" ( either to slightly drop it or to say it in a French way depending on the word ) , because we Arabs tend to emphasize the pronounce of it like ( Rrr ) lol she always says : Zu Arabisch ! that is kinda easy but "ch" and dropping the "e" seems hard to pronounce :( .
Well, it's what 'native German' usually sounds like in many cases! Learning a foreign language can be hard, nobody said it was easy! :) However, struggling with those things is totally normal, don't worry. You'll make some progress if you keep learning! :)
I'm really glad that german is my native language and I learn english - not the other way around xD It must be really difficult to learn german - compared to english.... Well... I don't have problems with learning english anyway... but of course some german people think learning english is difficult... Hell, what am I even writing right now? xD I think you can see what I mean...
Ich find das du nen guten youtube kanal hast. Die videos von deinem RUclips Kanal sind sehr gut ich lass mal Abo da! Spaß! Naja guter kanal und gute Videos! :)
Wie kann man die mündliche Fähigkeiten verbessern? Ich habe immer den schriftlichen Teil von DSH Prüfung bestanden. Aber für die mündliche Prüfung...;(
ze beste weg to lern german is: RhababerBarbara with it's Famous Rhababerkuchen. soon Barbara noticed, that sie makes €€€ without ende and opened ze "RhabarberBarbaraBar" which the some Babaren loved. diese got bald known as "RhababerBarbaraBarBabaren"...
It is also possible to use the „9 Z words“ Zehn Ziegen Zogen Zehn Zentner Zucker Zum Zwickauer Zoo or sogar better to use all ze Funnie german letters leik ß, ä, ü änd ö
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The problem people have with languages, for me German was you have to study something you really like. For me it started with Rammstein, then I started reading mountain rescue stuff, then welding. You have to read what interests you. ;)
All these recipe videos in German. :) zviebel , pfeffer, zals und paprika.
@@RPSchonherr I wonder how many German speakers now started out with Rammstein! I'm certainly one that is learning German because of Rammstein! I would also love to watch Das Boot and understand what is being said without the distraction of the subtitles!
I couldn't agree more on listening to native speakers. In English, we will normally drop the g in ing verbs as well. Like, "He is playin' with his friend outside." When I learned German, I also watched German television shows and movies. I also know sometimes in German you will drop vowels off of verbs. z.B. "Ich hab' das immer gemocht" Definitely, I would recommend listening to natives.
I used to talk to someone from Germany, and he was always amused by that! Gettin', doin', and gonna were probably the most amusing.
Pelarmar1 Right! Try to immerse and surround yourself with the language you wanna learn.
I think that depends on which dialect of English you are talking about : my impression is that dropping G's is more of an English or American thing ; here in Scotland it is just not done .
While here in Scotland we do have Gaelic ( a language I do not speak ) , we do have an older language known as Scots ( and much old literature such as that of Robert Burns is written in it ) ; old Scots has much in common with German : words such as sair ( English would think it means sore , as in painful ) is exactly equivalent to the German Sehr , which means VERY .
The Scots and the Germans still have an affinity and a healthy respect for each other , not sao much our cousins south of the border . Scots and French also have an affinity and there are also linguistic links .
the thing about the articles, you are totally right, when learning german as a spanish native speaker you can overlook that!
great tips!!
Frida B Yep, and sometimes a noun is masculine in Spanish, but it's feminine in German etc. :D
Keep learning! :)
the mistakes I see people make in learning a language is that they do not make it fun and keep judging themselves on how bad they are. Just keep going and get as much as you can.
Landmark Spy Very true! It's both necessary and alright to make and accept one's mistakes while learning a new language. The key is to keep going! :)
I have fun and know my German is bad.
Yes, indeed. I've also seen the reverse of that, me trying to tell people (that asked me for advice) about how in Spanish, obsessing about the differences between things like the basic past tenses (did / was doing) until they're forgetting to just enjoy being able to communicate with millions of people, you would have never met otherwise. Jeez, you just want to tell them (as politely as possible, of course) to STFU, hand them a bottle, and have them relax chemically, just enough, to see that it doesn't matter at all, to get everything 100% perfect. I'm a native English speaker, I still never get anything 100% correct, why should I stress myself out worrying about being 100% correct in any other language?
"I wanna be the very best like noone ever was" that's something familiar :)
ebeneben That's an unintented, but indeed funny coincidence, young Padawan! :'D
Not sure if people remember 1st year of school or maybe even as far back as before that and learning your native language, but that's how to learn a language. Mamma points to something and calls it what it is and when you get it right she says, "Yes, that's a ____." Then they'll read a picture book to you and on and on until you can say the words and understand what they mean and even read on your own. Then, you always have someone around speaking that language. Lessons can teach you some basics but immersion will get you there faster. Want to learn German? Be around people who speak it. Verstehe?
Yes , that is how I remember my first and only year of latin " Ecce , ecce , in pictura est puella " ; however the little I learned that year still helped me to make some sense of modern italian when I went there .
My french is better , because I did six years of French , but my German is best , because , never formally studying any German at all , I actually lived there for a while , and dated a German girl .
Verstehe das sehr gut ; ... genau .
und kann ich verstehe hören und sprechen viel besser dann lesen und schreiben .
Thank you for this video. 😊 I felt like for me personally, I am learning German too slow? Even though each day I see little improvements! I am quite patient but at times it can be frustrating especially the grammar for me. As a English native I still think in English and not all the time comes out perfect in German. I am just trying to understand the grammar a bit more as well as speak to my German partner who has been ever so helpful, patient and supportive of me. I really enjoy your videos and funny enough I have only found your channel recently, but I am glad I have found it 😊
All the tips you've shared are the ones I've already done myself. Because I've took French in high school and (yes I took the fluent in 3 months) and learn the pitfalls of having a textbook in your face versus learning it like a small child. When I thought about my baby niece and how she learned a few English words at a time, ever since day one, my mind became a sponge and then, I go back and break it down and learned the formal AND informal terms.
And yes, I have a German native friend who corrects my spelling :)
LOL I took French in school for 4 years and never really became fluent.
Just came across this video on my recommended and this was super helpful 😊 i've been having one on one German lessons with a tutor for the last ten weeks or so, and she has said some of these things! I'm finding that there is lots of grammar to learn..!! But I'm having fun with it 😊
How come you're not more known😮 this is all great stuff, you give me.motivation 😪😊
#5 is the hardest to reconcile with, for me at least. I grew up learning to speak English in a southern US dialect, and it didn't seem strange to me at all, but after being in the military, and starting to travel and meet new people, from tons of other places and countries, I really became more acutely sensitive to other "similar" dialects, within different subsets of not only English, but, eventually, other languages as well. It's been very difficult for me across 4 languages to not point myself to the "familiar" dialect in my target languages. For instance, "southern US relaxed dialect" = Kansai dialect in Japanese, = Colombian Dialect in Spanish, = rolled R "swagger" dialects in German. At the end of the day really, I keep having to remind myself equally that, none of that matters, and I should just have begun at sticking with standard dialects, with some eventual peppering of idioms and odd words and/or set phrases of the target "end-of-the-road" dialect "one day at a time". :)
My best tip is to go and LIVE the language .
I took six years of French at school ( 50 years ago ) , got my qualifications and was reasonably fluent back then , but never used it and have now forgotten most of it .
On the other hand , I never studied any German formally , but I went and lived in germany for a while , dated a German girl for over a year and just picked up the language by listening and speaking .
Even now , some 40 years on , I can understand German people when they talk , and can strike up a conversation . While I do know some written German , and can read some text - particularly technical German since I have always worked with classic Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz vehicles , and had to search through technical literature , sometimes with the help of friends , these things just stuck .
To the extent that , when in Italy , and I don't speak Italian ) I ended up conversing in German with italians who don't speak English ; similarly in Tenerife , where there is a large ex pat German community , my rudimentary German served me well .
perhaps the biggest mistake for English speakers is getting the word order wrong , since germans form their sentences differently , and also in numbers they use the old forms like 'four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie' .
It took me 7 years to speak think and write and pronounce English like a native.
I already know the process but it's a long way to go haha ..
It surely can be a pain in the ass, but in the end, it's even more rewarding then. :)
I spent three years at university ploughing through this. No regrets.
Please did you have video on learning German language because to me you are the best teacher l have ever seen
Well, almost all of my videos are about learning German! :D
If you have about 24 minutes to spare, I'd suggest watching this video:
ruclips.net/video/mcG9kJ3BvwU/видео.html
I'm explaining all my different video series and playlists there. :)
I still strugle with die, der and das ^^ Nice tshirt by the way ahah xD
I can imagine! :D
Thanks! AB is one of my favorite bands. :)
Good advice. I'd go a half-step further: When you learn a noun, also learn how to form the genitive singular. (The genitive case is similar to the possessive case in English, but also used after certain prepositions.) For example, the word for house is *Haus*. What you need to learn is: *das Haus, des Hauses, die Häuser*. This is the nominative singular, genitive singular, and nominative plural of *Haus* with the appropriate form of the definite article and tells you: *Haus* is neuter, the genitive singular is formed by adding *es*, and the plural changes the *a* to *ä* and adds *er*. This will appear in a good dictionary as: *Haus* _das_; *~es, Häuser*. *Apfel* (apple) is masculine, and the entry will be *Apfel* _der_; *~s, Äpfel*. *Kirche* (church) is feminine, and the genitive singular is the same as the nominative singular, while the plural adds an *n*. The entry will be: *Kirche* _die_; *~, ~n*.
I'm currently learning German. All these different cases are currently breaking my brain. My plan is to just keep learning and keep being confused until it all clicks together in one moment; like a baby suddenly transforming from a baby-speaker to a speaker in his native language. Wish me luck!
OK, if charging onward while confused works for you. I've always found it more effective to master what I encounter when I encounter it, before moving on to still more new concepts. There's usually a good reason for the order a textbook presents things in, and the rest of the book will tend to assume that you understand whatever was covered in earlier chapters. As for learning nouns, it's certainly more efficient to learn, for example, das Haus, die Häuser, than just Haus. If you learn the genitive singular as well, you'll actually have everything you'll ever need to know about Haus. As I tried to show, German dictionaries succinctly tell you what you need to know: Haus das; ~s, Häuser. I've found Duolingo helpful, and it's free. I read, copied, and pasted Duo's tips, whenever I encountered them, when working through the lessons. If you don't already have a grammar book you like, take a look at Schaum's German Grammar, 5th ed. Viel Glück! I think, as a stereotype, Germans don't believe in luck, or at least not in being lucky. ;-)
Yeah. I have a horrible time remembering noun genders, plural forms, and whether a masculine nouns is weak or strong.
Too technical for me ; I just lived in germany for a while and dated a German girl for a year and a bit ; picked up more than I could from any textbooks ; even 40 years later I still converse comfortably with germans
never studied any german at all .
VlogDave has taken over Chef John's Food Wishes channel in my heart
Aaaaw, thanks Morgan! You can have multiple favorite channels though, I bet his is even better than mine. :)
Vlogdave thanks l love the way you brake it down in English l love that thanks once again
Your third tip is amazing, but guest what! Making German friends is like hiking the Everest naked and barefoot... So maybe you want to talk and not only for practicing German but also because you want to make new friends, but you don't have someone who wants... Any piece of advice?
Nice , good example . thank u sir
Thank you Dave as this is helping out lots!👌😄
I'm learning german and I'm talking with a native speaker and it really helps me
Thanks, Chris! :)
Just learning about your videos now. Thanks very helpful. Would like to ask when speaking to a non-German, can you identify their nationality?
Thanks for the videos, I learned German in school but didn't try very hard it's only now 8 years later that I'm actually interested in learning so I'm trying to pick it back up. I'm planning a move to Berlin in September so these are really helpful thank you 😄
Hey Katie, thank you very much for your comment! I really love to get feedback like this. Knowing I could help is really motivational and really cool!
I can relate as well: I wasn't interested in physics back in school, but now I'm much more interest in some physical theories and things. :)
VlogDave thanks for the reply, we're probably all a bit guilty of that from when we were younger 😂😂 definitely keep it up though I think I'm used to the over pronunciation of words because I feel like I can read German reasonably but I can't understand a native speak at all 😂😂 I think it's just something I have to practice though
Keep going! :)
Gute Tipps! :)
Rammstein is the right way to learn German, Till is a great teacher 😁.
I on;y know Rammstein is an air force base
One of the problems I've come across when helping my coworker learn to speak English is: that I don't always pronounce all the letter in a word. Take curtain or Mountain for example.. I don't pronounce the "T" in either word... So what she hears is "Curain and Monunain".
And also Learning to using only English words when talking. Not Si or Nein.
Technically I did "Start from the wrong end", because most of my family speaks Plaudietsch, and I started learning Standard German because I wanted to see how they compare and contrast to each other. :P And there are also a lot of Swiss and German immigrants in my area (I'm from Canada), so I grew up hearing how words are actually pronounced rather than learning it from a teacher in a classroom. (Also, interesting fact: even though my parents don't speak Standard German, they can understand a lot of the written, because the song books in the church they were raised in were written in High German.)
I'm trying to teach myself German with as much "free" help as I can get and I've noticed that all the German words that start with SP make the schp sound. the ch at the end of words along with the Rs are the hardest for me. I never know when the R makes a sound because most lessons I've seen/had say the R is basically silent and ch sometimes sounds like sch other times it makes the ka sound. but I started teaching myself at the start of Oktober und Ich hope to be able to speak it fairly well by my birthday on Januar 8th. I can kind of read it so far and as you can see write/type it but I'm still very langsam with it. thanks for your help. oh and just to clarify Im not expecting to be an expert but I would like to be able to speak enough that should I go to Deutschland in Januar I'll be able to speak to someone.
Thanks for using my videos for learning German, that's an honor! :)
Keep learning and good luck with your ambition! :)
You will ; you have the right attitude . viel gluck
Thanks for your great advices. I've been starting learn German for 1 month and this kinda information very helpful for me. Actually I study german with duolingo. It isn't the best, but anyway, at least it gives me general information about language. I have trouble with articles, like everyone who learn german :D Bu I think I'll cope with it one day) I remember, when I started to learn English at he first time, I thought I'll never be able to learn tenses. But today compare with last year it's more easy and clear for me. And your another advice, not to rely on classes, very essential too. I'm gonna study in Germany this year. Of course, in english. But I think it's a good chance to impove my german. And your last advice... I think it's the best. It's really a big problem when people start to learn ANYTHING new they think they must be the best. Shit.
For my instance, it would be better to see videos about stuying in Germany on your channel. And more vlogs about learning German)
Thank you!
Rainy Day Right! Some people want to be the best at doing something new right away, but it doesn't work that way. Enjoy your time in Germany! :)
"I remember, when I started to learn English at he first time, I thought I'll never be able to learn tenses"
That sounds like me in Spanish. Remembering all the tense forms of irregular verbs: Ahhhh!
I couldn't agree more with you about the 3# "tip". I think that my classmates realie too much on me and german classes.
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alwaysuseless Thanks :) I really should practice more XD
Ich sollte auch mehr üben. ;-)
very helpful👍🏽👍🏽
The exception of the pronunciation rule of the sch grapheme pronunciation is that you also pronounce the fricative postalveolar phoneme (sorry I don't have the symbol) when you have an S before a P or a T, for example: Sprache, springen, spielen or still, Stimme, Straße.
What I thought was interesting is that that is only true when it's at the beginning of a word.
Great tips. (Edit if possible: “its article”. Not “it’s article” as in the graphic for tip #1.) spelling in English even crazier, s has five values, secure, sugar, measure, cows and aisle.
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Hallo :)
Dave, have you planned to make videos about word order in complex sentences? Or about word order in general? Es its sehr kompliziert fuer learners.. Especially for those who have not very strict word order in their native language T_T
Anna Den I already made a script for main clauses, I just need to film the video and edit everything. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I also made a lesson on sentence structure before. Use my main channel page and the little search bar there! :)
Ohh, sorry, my fault :) Found it!
Dave, you're so cute :)Thanks for the video. I now know the wrong ways of learning German...
I thought he was going to say by listening to Rammstein. :)
Alter Bridge tee! \m/
Great video.. I've been teaching myself German and I'm struggling with sentence structure... So different to English
thank you so much
Lev Dracvl Thanks for watching!
I would advise to learn the GENDER of a word, but not the article.
Biggest mistake: Learning German with other foreigners. Learn with native speakers. As such, group classes are a waste of time and money.
True, but it also depends on the progress of each learner, I think. It's better to start learning with other foreigners when you're already quite experienced with how the language is structured and the like.
thanks for the video , but is it necessary to learn how to drop the "e" in some verbs ? our teacher , which is half Arab half Deutsch always insisted on how to pronounce the letter "R" ( either to slightly drop it or to say it in a French way depending on the word ) , because we Arabs tend to emphasize the pronounce of it like ( Rrr ) lol she always says : Zu Arabisch ! that is kinda easy but "ch" and dropping the "e" seems hard to pronounce :( .
Well, it's what 'native German' usually sounds like in many cases! Learning a foreign language can be hard, nobody said it was easy! :)
However, struggling with those things is totally normal, don't worry. You'll make some progress if you keep learning! :)
VlogDave i will keep working on it , danke for replying .
I'm really glad that german is my native language and I learn english - not the other way around xD
It must be really difficult to learn german - compared to english....
Well... I don't have problems with learning english anyway... but of course some german people think learning english is difficult...
Hell, what am I even writing right now? xD
I think you can see what I mean...
I definately agree! Think about the different articles, that alone can be a pain in the... butt. :D
Why? English phonology and orthography are nightmarish. If English weren't my native language, I doubt I would have been able to learn it.
My native languaje is spanish, then I learned english and now I'm teaching my self german. I do think english was easier.
Ich find das du nen guten youtube kanal hast. Die videos von deinem RUclips Kanal sind sehr gut ich lass mal Abo da!
Spaß! Naja guter kanal und gute Videos! :)
Wie kann man die mündliche Fähigkeiten verbessern? Ich habe immer den schriftlichen Teil von DSH Prüfung bestanden. Aber für die mündliche Prüfung...;(
Oh good, I was worried he was gonna say "Don't learn German by sing 99 Luftballons over and over again"
Personally for me it’s really hard to remember the articles of a noun
I think you are my German soulmate.
Nice hat... I have a similar one. ^_^
The best way i learned german is by living there. I was in Baumholder for 2 years
Du sollst have more subscribers. I'm sorry it was kind of hard to learn how to say that
"Du sollst / solltest mehr Abonnenten haben" would be a full version of this! :) And thanks, feel free to spread the word!
haben Sie Freundin genannte(angerufene) Aveline, lustige Weise, etwas zu lernen. 🤡🌎🇬🇧🇮🇪Honk!! She also learned bad English from me... But had fun..
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ze beste weg to lern german is: RhababerBarbara with it's Famous Rhababerkuchen. soon Barbara noticed, that sie makes €€€ without ende and opened ze "RhabarberBarbaraBar" which the some Babaren loved. diese got bald known as "RhababerBarbaraBarBabaren"...
It is also possible to use the „9 Z words“
Zehn Ziegen Zogen Zehn Zentner Zucker Zum Zwickauer Zoo
or sogar better to use all ze Funnie german letters leik ß, ä, ü änd ö