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| Taps Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4831 days ago 15 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 3 27 May 2012 at 9:23pm | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone,
I've been thinking a lot lately about which language I would like to learn next and I think I've decided. English is my native language and I've gotten a pretty good hold on Spanish, which I love, after studying abroad (I'm actually still going to be in Spain for another month so I still have time to keep improving). I think I want to go outside of the Romance language family for my next one and I think I've settled on German. Before I start, though, I wanted your guys advice. Where would you start? Are podcasts good to listen to or are traditional textbooks and classes useful? What about pronunciation? Is it important to pick a dialect to focus on early on? Or is it more important to start with standard German and decide later? Thanks in advance for the input! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cortical Tetraglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4624 days ago 30 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, SpanishB1 Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 2 of 3 27 May 2012 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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As dialects in German are often much more than just a slight accent (at times mutually pretty unintelligible) I'd say you should go for standard.
People in Germany that speak a dialect are also fluent in standard (except for some older people, that will try to talk very slowly and clearly to make you understand them, which obviously won't do any good ...) And about which learning materials to use I can't help you as a native speaker... But whatever you choose, I wish you good luck :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 3 27 May 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
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There are awesome podcasts by Deutsche Welle, specifically the "Deutsch? Warum nicht!" course.
Don't worry so much about the materials. If it doesn't work, try something else. (avoid Rosetta Stone and if you want to try something expensive like Pimsleur, try your local library or at least the free sample lessons) The techniques are more important - here's a bunch of good ones http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Techniques Edited by Serpent on 27 May 2012 at 10:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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