fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4525 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German
| Message 41 of 151 06 January 2014 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
I would like to be an observer to this team. I won't be learning German in "annihilation"
mode but in a slow progress this year. It should be nice to see your experiences.
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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 42 of 151 06 January 2014 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
Welcome aboard, AlOlaf and fireballtrouble!
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ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5257 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 43 of 151 06 January 2014 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
I would like to join the German team.
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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 44 of 151 11 January 2014 at 12:02pm | IP Logged |
Welcome to the team, ummagumma. Could you post the link to your log?
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BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4623 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish
| Message 45 of 151 12 January 2014 at 9:12pm | IP Logged |
This man made videos of himself every week over the course of a year showing his progress in learning to speak
German:
Lernen to Talk
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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 46 of 151 15 January 2014 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
Team Spaß January Challenge
Now that we are two weeks into 2014, logs have (mostly) been set up, goals decided on and study plans put together, I think it's time to introduce a Team Spaß team challenge.
For January, since it is still the middle of winter and I feel I need cheering up (apologies to any team members if you happen to be south of the equator) I have tried to go with something fun, light, accessible and meaningful to learners of all abilities.
The challenge for January is: Learn the lyrics to a song in German
If you are advanced and this challenge seems far too simple, you could try translating the lyrics yourself. If that's too simple, try to create a translation which fits with the metre and rhyming pattern of the original!
Once you have completed the challenge, post in the team log to tell us what you have memorised. Bonus points to anybody prepared to give a performance (for the record, I won't, there are enough disturbing videos on YouTube already).
Lyrics Training takes an interesting approach to studying with lyrics and has quite a few German songs available
Lyrics Translate can be a useful starting point to find song lyrics with translations (some admittedly better quality than others)
I think that memorising song lyrics can be a useful exercise for two reasons:
1) In order to memorise the lyrics properly, you have to pay attention to grammatical details such as the correct use of articles
2) Once you have memorised the lyrics, assuming you picked a song you actually like, carrying out a review is a lot more fun than drilling through a basic Anki deck
I think there is a lot of genuinely good German language music out there, and I'm looking forward to discovering more!
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ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5257 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 47 of 151 15 January 2014 at 11:38pm | IP Logged |
Hallo g-bod
Hier ist meinen Log: TID=37786&PN=1&TPN=1">Ummagumma Log
Edited by ummagumma on 15 January 2014 at 11:39pm
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ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5257 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 48 of 151 15 January 2014 at 11:57pm | IP Logged |
Momentan hoere ich gerne Kinderlieder zu. Ist das erlaubt? Meine sechszehnmonatige
Tochter lernt mit mir ubrigens auch Deutsch! Ich werde ein paar Lieder auswendig lernen
und übersetzen.
Meine Katzen rennen aus dem Zimmer, wenn ich anfange zu singen. Man will keine Aufnahme
von mir! Vertrau mir!
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