German Lessons?

oo yes please! im currently learning german, but im not progressing all too well, so help from actual germans would be ace!

ooo,goodidea,i'd like to learn german again

again?Did you learn german...Ehm...before ehm...now?

@DerTom:I would like to post some tips about the german language...

yeah,i did it at school for 2 years
stuff like

die der den die
das dem den das
die der dem die
and stuff like that for declinations and stuff,can't remember anymore.

plus my dad's german,and so is half my family(his half of course)

All right, I'll open a forum topic in the german Forum quite soon with the first "lesson", post there if you wish.

@DerTom:Ehm...können wir das mit meinem Topik erbinden (repetional lessons)???
Thanx
Witz ()

das ist eine gute idee wizz,dan kan ich zwei mal deutsch gelernt,sacht vir mich of ich die gut geschreiben...

are german lessons still happenin?

just thought i would resurect this thread...

i'd also like to know,am very interested in learning it,but i think dertom is still busy creating the lessons or something

I'd deffinately be interested...I did it for GCSE but I've forgotten most of it due to not practising..

what's up with this topic?? Is it dead know like the others?

have a look at this topic, please.

i haven't seen dertom in AAGEEEES,we're still busy with a game.he'll be back sometime...

a german learning forum would be awesome. I found myself in Wien for a few days. One thing I'll say about them; their publc transport ROCKS! they actually have signs telling you when the next bus and the one after arrives and leaves at each bus stop! I don't speak much german (enough to survive) but I found my way to a pub in Karlsplatz no problem..at midnight.

isn't that, like, normal? it is in germany...
i won't offer to be a german teacher, my german sucks and i dunno nothing about grammar.

here the buses are often not legally allowed on the roads, they break down, have holes, if the emergency window in the back has been used sometines they are not replaced for a while. trains are also late but to fix it the gvmnt redefined "late" as 4:59 from 3:59

what do you want to have in a german lesson?

we could do something. i just don't know what.

well I'm experienced at studying languages...not necessarily learning them though.

Usually an introduction to the forms of verbs and nouns used is good. What the forms look like, what ones are used and what they are used for.

It is in South Morpork. It was 17minutes I had to wait for the 250 bus tonite...

LOL!! It takes a lot of skill to accurately mangle a language in its slang (umgaengssprache)! Very nice Ratty!

well we could have a system where peopole post a question and you answere ratdeath

thanks. you don't get taught that in english lessons, but if you read books and watch movies carefully enough you can learn some slang from them. and spending half a year in new zealand helps, too, of course .

sure, if i know the answer i will.

wunderschön! how many declensions and conjugations are therein German?

i don't know. do you know how many there are in english?

one, with a whole load of exceptions. that's one of the reasons english is so hard to learn and also you couldn't tell the difference between conjugations etc in english because all the form are parctically the same.

there are more. you just don't really know because you're native. and i don't know about the german stuff because i'm native.
and english is comparatively easy to learn. french or spanish are way harder.

I'm not an english native i just speak on that level. but true. it's still a stupid language and you can attest to how different its grammar is

I think that's partly because you're starting from German - there seem to me to be more similarities between English and German than there are between either of them and French/Spanish. But if you were Spanish, you'd probably find it much easier to learn French than English.

At least, that's how it looks to me - to be honest I'm one of the least qualified linguists there could possibly be, so don't trust me too far.

MS

Youre right MS. There are more similarities between English and German because English is a member of the German language family, so i think it means that it originated from German.

sort of we get alot of our language from german BUT we get alot from the nordic vikings and french types as well. along with celtic and gaelic influences as well. manic i think is the term

time for a history lesson kiddies.

in the before time, britons lived of england and in Ireland the gaelic types. at some pont in history a viking group set out from wherever they came from and landed in what is today saxony (names after the two tribes that landed there the angles and the saxons later becoming anglo-saxons.) they then landed on the northjer end of england (scottland) and after a fashion the romans invaded bringing latin with them latter buggering off leaving the anglo-saxons behind to spread their celtic brand of german. Soon the norman tribe set of from viokingland and landed in northern france adopting a viking-french language which they intruduced into the budding english language as of 1066 or even earlier. So to sum up;

English=Briton+Gaelic+viking/German+Latin+viking/French.

And yet of all the peoples of Europe (to whome GB only semi belongs) the brits have the biggest monoglotic philosophy.