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J0sh
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Studies: German

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06 October 2014 at 6:49pm | IP Logged

akeed wrote:

Well, its really nice to hear from someone else who is also learning German!
Willkommen!

I think your approach is probably similar to mine... I also use Assimil and Anki as
well as Michel Thomas (a sort of alternative to Pimsleur). I'm thinking of completing
both those courses before I start reading some easier German books (translations of
Harry Potter books maybe).

Yes it looks as if our approaches are fairly similar, the only negatives I have heard
about Michel Thomas are that the student pronunciations can be incorrect, but most
people say it is worth it either way.

akeed wrote:

I think the toughest part of learning German (or any language for that matter) will be
the listening part and so I suggest you begin listening to some real German audio
(either songs/easy podcasts) from the beginning. I use the slowgerman website for easy
podcasts (thanks to Jeffers ) , lyricstraining.com for songs and the 'EasyGerman'
channel on Youtube for real-life street interviews of German people.

I also feel that listening can be one of the more difficult passive techniques to
learn, currently I am only using the audio from Pimsleur as well as Assimil. Although
these approaches focus more on quality than quantity I feel they are a good start
before jumping into full blown native TV/Movies. I will most likely start looking at
the slow news casts and possibly some native TV Shows in the next few weeks.

akeed wrote:

I'm also in the process of finding a language partner so that I can actually put to
use all of the German that I learn but have yet been unlucky.
Seeing that you too are starting out I think it would be ideal for us to be language
partners. Just tell me if you would like to!

I may be interested in this a month from now but I feel that I need to work a bit more
on my active skills before I look into language partners. I will definitely be
following your progress and I hope we can both work together in the future to tackle
German. I am lucky enough to have visited Germany a couple times and I have made some
friends who are fluent in both German and English, but I have also heard that there
are many sites that forum users use to meet language partners online.

Edited by J0sh on 06 October 2014 at 6:50pm

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