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German for 10 Minutes a Day (No, Really.) | ||
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| KCor Groupie United States Joined 4999 days ago 50 posts - 72 votes  | Message 9 of 19 23 August 2011 at 2:17am | IP Logged |
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I don't see how it's possible to even attempt learning German without dedicating
yourself to the grammar. Without understanding their case system you're unable to properly decline their words and without proper declinations then you could very well be putting forth the wrong ideas as they relate to locations, movements and pluralities. I don't mean to discourage you, but if you don't have an attraction to the language then you might as well try something else because it will be very frustrating for a while until you learn to properly implement these features. And to save you some time: quit using LiveMocha immediately. It's good for nothing except meeting people. If you're looking for a launching point then get the German version of the Teach Yourself and Colloquial series. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 10 of 19 23 August 2011 at 5:41pm | IP Logged |
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I know what I'm doing, don't worry. I'm just trying to scrape a pass in German. I don't need to know a lot of grammar to get a D or a C.
I hate the language, but I have to study it. It was either German or Italian, and I can't stand Italian either. I used to love Italian, but I couldn't find any good material to study the language, so I became really frustrated. I do own some German comic books, and I also ordered a plethora of German books at some point. Anyway, I'm done with German for the day. I learned basic words such as eating and drinking. I still make a lot of mistakes each time I do the writing exercises, but it'll get better eventually. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4850 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 11 of 19 23 August 2011 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
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No good materials?! There are plenty of them! If you want, I can send you some titles (but I can't believe you don't know them, they are so obvious)
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| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 12 of 19 23 August 2011 at 8:44pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know them, otherwise I'd probably have studied Italian last year in college.
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| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 13 of 19 23 August 2011 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
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I studied German for another ten minutes because I don't think I'll have time to use Livemocha tomorrow.
I studied vocabulary related to clothes and basic conjugations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zohan Triglot Groupie Romania Joined 5245 days ago 45 posts - 45 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, Swedish | Message 14 of 19 24 August 2011 at 9:22am | IP Logged |
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It's ironic to name your blog "Become Fluent in a Foreign Language" while 10 minutes seem
long to you when doing German. I have never seen such a poor learning technique in all of my time spent here. I guess the blog's name was supposed to be ironic? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 15 of 19 26 August 2011 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the free publicity, and for demonstrating how bitter you are. :)
It proves that I'm doing something right! Anyway, I studied German for a bit today, but not on Livemocha. Instead, I read an ebook on German. I learned some basic phrases. I didn't time myself this time, but I think that the whole memorization process took me about 10 minutes. Phrases I've learned: Guten Abend Gute Nacht Ja/ Nein Es tut mir leid Woher kommst du? Ich bin... Jahre alt Entschuldigung I familiarized myself with some more sentences. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zohan Triglot Groupie Romania Joined 5245 days ago 45 posts - 45 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, Swedish | Message 16 of 19 26 August 2011 at 9:37am | IP Logged |
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You're welcome. I read your other log and now I can see you're on the right track with
English. If only more could be as dedicated as you and I are. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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