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| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5678 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 18 12 May 2009 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
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Well, these log books seem to be quite an interesting way of getting help from the community. I understand that there are quite a few and the majority of them are quite lonely.
My current materials are: Teach Yourself German (with the CDs, a steal at just £10!) Oxford Colour Dictionary: German (it has a letter writer in it and some word games) Am onto unit 3 of the TY German. The grammer has been good but I am getting confused by question words. It is a bit of a brick wall but I assume it will dismantle once my grammer has been built upon. I try using what little German I can grasp in the shardtalk.com rooms and have been relying on my dictionary quite a lot and am finding it a lot of hard work. It's having an amazing effect on my immersion though! A big worry has been the lack of immersion into a German speaking environment. When I tried to take it up a few weeks ago my friend said she couldn't understand a word I said which discouraged me. Today, while doing an essay (English) for college, I played some German-speaking cartoons in the background. I was surprised by the words that I cpick out. I need to make a phone call with my friend to see if my pronunciatiom has improved. My goal is absolute fluency. 12/5/09 - finish Unit 3 - Please suggest to me any materials you have found helpful when learning German. It would be greatly appreciated! Edited by Toffeeliz on 08 September 2009 at 9:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6550 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 18 12 May 2009 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
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Get yourself Michel Thomas, it's an excellent kick start.
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| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5678 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 18 14 May 2009 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
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I'll try and borrow a copy from somewhere. I'm wary about Michel Thomas; I've heard mixed reviews on him. On amazon it'll short me £50 so I'm gonna to hunt around a bit.
Unit 3 14/5 Nearing the end of college course, didn't have chance to finsih Unit 3 til today. Have been studying for my Chinese exam on Saturday too. Still on simple vocabularly but there is a writing excerice at the back end of this unit. If anyone could correct this at some point I would be very much obliged! Ich heiße Matthias Peters, Ich kommen aus Hamburg. Ich arbeiten bei Delta Softward GmbH und meine Telefonummer ist 040-376284. Meine email ist m.peters@delta.com Mein Name ist Hartmut Klaussthaler, Ich bin eine Geschäftsführer arbeiten bei Druckhaus Europa. Meine Telefonnumer ist 07545-6173. Ich heiße Dorothea Johannsen, Ich arbeiten bei die Antiquitäten Center. Meine Telefonummer ist 02 51-51 43 86. Simple stuff :P Unit 4 Saturday. Tomorrow I'll concentrate on Chinese. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5678 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 18 29 August 2009 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
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Just finsihed Unit 4. Been in China these two months without a laptop and therefore my main learning tool. Did 36/40 on the test in the back of the book - can now move onto the nezt unit.
Looked into Michel Thomas; was very slow going. He speaks so slowly that I think time has stopped. It's publishbed by the same people as Teach Yourself German though so I think I'll be fine with what I have right now. Task for today: Listen to somme GermanPod, watch some German cartoons (immersion). Practice todays unit with native speaker I know online. I need to go to shardtalk and ask for an audio conversation at some point too. My listening skills are horrendous. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6434 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 18 29 August 2009 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
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Deutsche Welle has some excellent material for learners. Try Warum nicht? which is a course designed to take you from beginner to intermediate level.
When you are a bit more competent in the language, you can read through myriads of articles on that website. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5678 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 18 29 August 2009 at 4:53pm | IP Logged |
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There is a God: they call him Jiwon! :D this looks to be a great site, thank you ever so much!
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| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6434 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 18 29 August 2009 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
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Awww.. that was nothing.
If you get better at German, I have tons of things to recommend you. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5678 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 18 10 September 2009 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
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One of the reasons I want to learn German is so that I can read Eva Ibbotson books. She emigrated to Scotland when the war broke out and has lived in the UK since. She began writing in 1965 or so, but it is only these past fews that I have found her works, due to them being republished. Everyone I recommened them too dismisses them as being too sappy but I can't help that each time I read one of her books it touches me right at the heart and makes me happy for the entire week afterwards. I'm re-reading "the Morning Gift" and have bookmarked it's German amazon.com counterpart so that I can work towards reading it as ,Die Morgengabe'.
As for studying today: worked through lesson two of Deutsch Interaktiv and lesson 5 in the Teach Yourself book. I shan't have much time to study tommorow becuase of work, so I'll take it as an oppurtunity to revise what I've learnt so far. I also made an attempt at writing today. I would appreciate it some one helped with my mistakes! :D Ich heiße Carmel, in Rotherham geboren. Ich wohne immer noch in Rotherham bei meinen Mutter und Bruder. Ich gehe studiere Kunst in die Universität, aber mein Bruder berufstätig. Mein Geburtstag ist einsundzwanzig von März, Ich bin achtzehn Jahre alt. Edited by Toffeeliz on 10 September 2009 at 10:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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