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| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5444 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 17 31 March 2010 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey, everyone
Is it true that you can have a conversation with someone with three thousand words? I was hoping this would be the case, and then talking to natives or other fluent people would lead to a rapid increase in the quality of my German. From learnthatlanguagenow.com: "In European languages, the 1000 most commonly used words make up 85% of common speech. The 3000 most commonly used words make up 95% of common speech." So is it possible? Brian 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 17 31 March 2010 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You can have great conversations with half of that.
But please tell me you haven't been waiting until you reach a vocabulary of 3000 words BEFORE having conversations with natives?! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5444 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 17 31 March 2010 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Awesome.
Well, I've tried, but usually it doesn't go well. I think I need to focus more on phrases, and to practice my oral skills more. Although I live in Ireland and the only other languages I could try out would be Irish, Polish and perhaps Lithuanian and Cantonese. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6447 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish | Message 4 of 17 31 March 2010 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Check this link out:
as well as this one. Edited by MarcoDiAngelo on 31 March 2010 at 5:18pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5444 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 5 of 17 31 March 2010 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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хвала!
Two great links. I was experimenting with it there by copying and pasting an English language article on the White Rose. It recognized most words, and any obstacles could be easily avoided. For example, it did not have the word for ''receptive'' but it did have the word for welcoming, sympathetic and interested. Cool. When speaking with native Germans in 2009 I would try to think of complicated words instead of saying things simply, which would have been better. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Al-Irelandi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5535 days ago 111 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 17 31 March 2010 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Brian, I recommend you to get Berlitz Self Teacher German, it will familiarise you with the basics of the German language and give you a good headstart with the most needed everyday vocabulary. Just get a native speaker to help you out with the pronunciation or if not try getting Pimsleur German, an audio course.
Berlitz Self Teacher available on Amazon here. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 7 of 17 01 April 2010 at 12:49am | IP Logged | |||||
I can't recommend those books enough. I have Portuguese and Italian. I hope to get German and Russian sometime too :) EXCELLENT resource. I love them. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5444 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 17 01 April 2010 at 1:05am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks guys, I've heard a lot of good things about those guides. Next I'm thinking of learning Spoken Mandarin, but if I decide on Spanish instead I will definitely try to get this guide. I've always been fond on Berlitz. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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