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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 121 of 436 13 March 2013 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Compound nouns are great, especially for the gender discount. In fact I think I already have die Stadt, der Ball and der Name already burned into my brain thanks to learning a few compound nouns.
Anyway, I don't think I've talked myself out of vocab so much as I've talked myself out of going the Anki route, at least for now. There's more than one way to learn a list of words, after all! So thanks for the tip for worksheets, I may well go on a google hunt! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 122 of 436 14 March 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't intend to log in here for the next two weeks (I plan to finally break the cycle of spending too much money accessing the internet when I'm abroad!)
Just trying to decide what kind of "entertainment" to pack. I don't really want to spend time studying in a hotel room on holiday when there's a whole (German-speaking) world at my doorstep, after all. Maybe I'll just pack my Assimil, load up my mp3 player with stuff, and leave it at that... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 123 of 436 14 March 2013 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Although a break might be good.. just wanted to suggest free wifi
locations for accessing the internet. My hotel in LA which I hated did have free wifi. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 124 of 436 14 March 2013 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Free wifi is awesome. However, my Sony phone does not like connecting to it. Next time I'm getting a Samsung I think!
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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 125 of 436 20 March 2013 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I cracked and logged on today! I needed to get train times and a map anyway (well, that's my excuse).
Anyway, I've spoken some German! I'm still very much in the A zone (can cope, just about, as a tourist) but so far I've managed to check into a hotel, order dinner and buy stamps without falling back on English. The only situation that seems to flummox me every time is buying coffee! Today we went to a coffee shop and I ordered successfully and thought I'd solved my coffee problems, and then I remembered that I'd ordered tea... I've also managed to have a really good browse of the Deutsch als Fremdsprache sections in a couple of bookshops which has really confirmed for me that apart from possibly a grammar book, I don't need any more textbooks. There are loads of different textbook series that all seem to offer, more or less, the same thing, so there's no point in doubling up. Apart from activating my tourist German and maintaining some immersion thanks to German TV I haven't really done anything in particular to work on my language. I have too much to do by way of sightseeing, eating, drinking and keeping my husband company. But I think once I get back home I'll be itching to get back to my textbooks. Baden-Württemberg is a very different place to the areas I visited last summer, but nevertheless my love affair with German and Germany is still going strong. Knowing a little of the language is enough to make things a little more interesting, so I'm sure if I learn more, things will get even more interesting! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 126 of 436 23 March 2013 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Regarding genders: Does German not have any "rules" or patterns that make it easier to remember them? Norwegian does to some extent and since they are reasonably closely related, I thought there might be something like that also for German.
Like German, Norwegian compounds take the gender of the second noun, but there are also certain endings that give a clue to the gender. Also, certain types of words generally fit together into one category, for example, most types of trees are feminine, most substances and materials are neuter, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6086 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 127 of 436 24 March 2013 at 9:38am | IP Logged | ||
German must have pretty much the same patterns. Google: "Genus, German" for some good tips like this one. Canoonet is also good, but really slow this morning, for some reason... By persons the genders match (the obvious rule) der Mann – die Frau der Vater – die Mutter der Sohn – die Tochter also by animals der Stier – die Kuh "Babies" are neuter das Kalb, das Fohlen, das Lamm, das Küken Gender patterns for weather, calendar, plants.. found on this page! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 128 of 436 24 March 2013 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are patterns. Check any grammar book for
them I'll check mine when I get home.. But there are a lot of exceptions to the patterns too and words that just don't fall into to the patterns. I'm correcting lang 8 posts and you might think that English is a pushover regarding articles since we have no gender but people still mess it up. A lot. They don't know when to say a, the, some, or to leave it out. This makes me happy for some reason XD. Edited by kraemder on 24 March 2013 at 6:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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