Rem Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3756 days ago 66 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Czech, French
| Message 57 of 225 27 December 2014 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
agta wrote:
I have a problem with our introductory challenge as I hasn't really read
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I'm in a similar position agta, as I haven’t really had much exposure to native materials
either.
The one notable exception that I can think of at the moment is the poem Der Erlkönig. I
discovered this very shortly after I started learning German and I loved it. One of the
first things that I did was to take this poem apart. It was obviously above my level at
the time but I wanted to learn it badly enough that the extra time that I needed to put
into studying it didn’t bother me. It remains one of my favourite poems (even now I still
know it off by heart).
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carlyd Groupie United States Joined 3988 days ago 94 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 58 of 225 27 December 2014 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
I looked on the Wikia and there's four team members in the A0-A1 category, so I hope there's some easy challenges for us as we gear up for a year of learning.
I can't name any "real" books or movies--yet--but for my fellow A1's I can recommend Café in Berlin as your first book to read, and then the Felix und Theo series when you're closer to full A1.
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sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5881 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 59 of 225 27 December 2014 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
Introductory Challenge
Music
Don't really follow music that much. I do like Rammstein, but they've been one of my favorites since long before I started learning German (not counting high school). I've tried to find other German metal bands (Eisbrecher, Megaherz) but I just haven't gotten into them as much. I don't stick to just metal music, I find favorites in all genres. I haven't really done much looking for German music.
Books
Haven't gotten to any native German novels yet. Some graded readers and short stories, but nothing spectacular yet. I have Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann and Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin on my bookshelf. I'm planning on getting to at least one of them this year, even if it's only to intensively read a few chapters.
Movies
Die Welle is one of the three movies that I am going through with subs2srs. Of the three, I'd say this one is the best in terms of being able to learn from it. The setting is high school, so some of the language is more simple, yet I'm sure it also has more slang. Also being that many scenes are in a classroom setting, there's a lot of clear speech.
Das Leben Der Anderen is my favorite non-silent German film. I'm a big fan of German Expressionism and the German silent era in general. Der Golem, Faust, Metropolis, Das Cabinent des Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu...I'd say Faust is my favorite German silent movie.
Honorable Mentions for movies: Lola Rennt, Soul Kitchen, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tag, Das weiße Band
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4233 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 60 of 225 29 December 2014 at 7:02am | IP Logged |
So I have updated Unser Mannschaft section, got a little bit terrified but also quite a bit excited.
It's necessary to have a link to your log there, but you can also add whatever else as your contacts (twitter, facebook and more).
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4214 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 61 of 225 29 December 2014 at 10:40am | IP Logged |
Link to
my log
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Nieng Zhonghan Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 3670 days ago 108 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Japanese*, Spanish, Galician Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, Armenian, Mongolian Studies: Old English, Russian, English, German, Korean, Mandarin
| Message 62 of 225 31 December 2014 at 3:27am | IP Logged |
Hallo Via Diva,
Here it is the link to my log.
how-
to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=39571&PN =1&TPN=4
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patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4532 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German
| Message 63 of 225 31 December 2014 at 11:28am | IP Logged |
Ich wünsche Euch allen einen guten Rutsch und ein glückliches Jahr 2015!
Edited by patrickwilken on 31 December 2014 at 11:29am
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Ramblurr Newbie United States binaryelysium.com Joined 4339 days ago 30 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), German
| Message 64 of 225 31 December 2014 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
Hallo everyone... joining at the last minute... here is a link to my log:
http://www.how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.a sp?TID=39832&PN=1&TPN=1
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