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| hokusai77 Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7142 days ago 212 posts - 217 votes  1 sounds Speaks: Italian*, FrenchB1, EnglishC1 Studies: GermanB1, Japanese | Message 9 of 16 24 August 2014 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Living Language series is usually very good, I'm using it for Japanese, but I also
had a look at their German courses and seemed quite comprehensive. I would also strongly recommend a good grammar book with exercises, since German grammar and syntax is quite tough at the beginning, and it's important to lay on strong foundations if you want to progress. You can also find some good resources for beginners on the Deutsche Welle website: http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/s-2055 (select Niveaustufe A1). Viel Glück! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 10 of 16 24 August 2014 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bolio, you and probably the rest of the community know my opinion about adult beginners taking on two languages simultaneously before achieving a high level in one. So I won't lecture you about your choice. Perhaps you will be the exception. If you are going to do this, then try Deutsche Welle's Aprender Alemán site. You'll at least be able to maintain contact with Spanish while you learn a bit of German. There are several beginner courses available on the DW site. Trying the Spanish base will show you where you are in Spanish too.
If I were in your place, going on a one-off trip to a German-speaking country, I'd probably just learn the basics- how to order food, ask directions, introduce myself, talk about myself and family. You could do that for free with the FSI German Headstart and/or German FAST at little cost to your Spanish studies. For a one-off trip, I wouldn't go through the whole process of learning the whole language. Edited by iguanamon on 25 August 2014 at 3:34pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| BOLIO Senior Member United States Joined 4648 days ago 253 posts - 366 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 16 25 August 2014 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I-Mon, thanks for the resource. You are right on all accounts. Yesterday I was working on FSI for an hour and then I was reading Charlie y fabrica de Chocolate and it hit me. What am I doing? I have too far to go in Spanish to be taking any minutes from her. I will wait for German. It is not going any place that I cannot find it.
Thanks to all who posted the resources and ideas. Maybe I will use the FSI Headstart a couple of months before leaving or I will talk my wife into taking another trip to a Spanish speaking country (Honduras, Costa Rica or Ecuador) this year and the following year we can go to Germany. I do think German will be my next language as the structure looks appealing to me. The sounds are hard but it seems as far as literature goes, it would be an excellent language to know. Thanks again to all who helped, BOLIO 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4705 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 12 of 16 25 August 2014 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I second who sugested Michel Thomas. Their course for German is just amazing.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5156 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 13 of 16 25 August 2014 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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That has been my pattern so far (my first attempt was 14 years ago and I only reached A1):
- German Without Toil - Deutsch: Warum Nicht (Deutsche Welle) - Le nouvel Allemand Sans Peine - L'Allemand (newest Assimil) - La pratique de l'allemand - Perfectionnement Allemand - Wieso Nicht - Duolingo - Marktplatz - Teach Yourself German old edition, in Portuguese - Jojo sucht das Glück (Deutsche Welle) - EasyGerman 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4244 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 14 of 16 26 August 2014 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Good to hear that you've sorted your priorities out.
However, if you feel like toying around with German a bit, I've converted the German FSI course to an Anki Deck with audio for vocab and full sentences and uploaded it, so the course can be gone through in chunks of study time without needing to commit a full hour to study every day. Edited by YnEoS on 26 August 2014 at 1:07am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ilolwhat Newbie Australia Joined 3873 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchA2, German, Polish | Message 15 of 16 26 August 2014 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi YnEoS, how did you convert the program to anki? Perhaps youu could send me the deck
Just saw you edited it into your post, thanks! Edited by ilolwhat on 26 August 2014 at 3:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3735 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French | Message 16 of 16 01 September 2014 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
I would do Paul Noble's German and Assimil German at the same time and after finishing PN German I maybe would add Michel Thomas. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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