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| dumbl3d0re Newbie United States Joined 4535 days ago 11 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 5 27 June 2013 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been learning German at my school for almost 2 years. I have learned most of what
I know from self-study because I so greatly enjoy just learning German and I was wondering if anyone could assess where I am and my progress (possibly even a CEFR estimate. I was thinking high A2). I've tried to include many samples. Writing: I recently finished a novel, Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf, and so I wrote a summary of the book. This was written without a dictionary, grammar reference, style guide or any help outside spell check. My writing isn't super but it's not bad and as of late I have not been focusing as much on my writing. Google Doc http://goo.gl/xowAw Speaking: This is difinitely my weakest area and I am trying to improve it. An unprepared reading from the "Tatsachen über Deutschland" http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ebohIXb1Qr A poem which I looked over and practiced a tiny bit http://vocaroo.com/i/s0iZGhEZuftC (Sorry for the poor audio quality! My headset recently broke.) A lot of the tripping up is that I'm poor at reading aloud. I would have done extemporaneous speaking but I couldn't find a suitable topic. Even though my accent is poor, I can be pretty spontaneous, but I do often find it hard to explain things in detail or express myself more than superficially. Reading: I would say the hardest book I have read in its entirety is Tschick. If you go to http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3871347108/ and click on "Hier klicken Blick ins Buch" you can preview it to get an idea of difficulty. There weren't too many parts where I needed a dictionary or was completely lost. Now I am reading the first Harry Potter book and am able to read it without difficulty and for pleasure. There are seldom vocab gaps that impede my understanding. Newspapers and more adult books such as Süddeutsche Zeitung, Gunter Grass' works and a book I have on Educational Psychology are above my level, but I can read das Urteil and Andreas Franz' Krimnalromane with a dictionary. Listening: Listening is probably my weakest skill behind Speaking. The only movie I was able to watch without subtitles "Komm, wir finden einen Schatz", a childrens movie and I have struggled through some documentaries on ZFD. I am generally able to watch shows and movies with subtitles, (Verbotene Liebe,Vitus). Klartext radio is almost understandable. I can understand probably 50-60% regular news such as Tagesschau. Most TV shows (Tatort, Jungs WG (not news)) are near impossible without subtitles though (40%) I know this is a lot and if anyone takes the time to look over all of this Vielen Dank im Voraus!! Bearbeitung: Umlaute hinzufügen Edited by dumbl3d0re on 27 June 2013 at 8:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4637 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 5 27 June 2013 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Seems like you have done pretty well for self-study. Keep up the good work.
If you haven't already, you might try some audiobooks. As well as HP, you might think about the Tintenwelt trilogy by Cornelia Funke. (Tintenherz, TintenBlut, Tintentod). Tintenwelt Wikipedia There are English translations available, as well as Audiobücher auf Deutsch. Viel Erfolg und Viel Spaß. Edited by montmorency on 27 June 2013 at 1:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5408 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 3 of 5 28 June 2013 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
The word order could sometimes be better (italics). "bei zwei Unfällen sein" is not clear. The rest is quite good (lapus are corrected in bold) Your reading: German "z" is pronounced [ts], not [z]. The text is understandable, but the accent quite strong. Edited by Cabaire on 28 June 2013 at 12:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dumbl3d0re Newbie United States Joined 4535 days ago 11 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 4 of 5 28 June 2013 at 2:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you so much for your indispensable advice and help! I was also wondering whether my
pronunciation is as poor as the actual accent. Edited by dumbl3d0re on 28 June 2013 at 6:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4431 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 5 of 5 30 June 2013 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Your pronunciation is generally ok but you need to work on the letter z. It should have a hissing sound.
Take the English word "it's" and remove the first letter. There you have it. Edited by beano on 30 June 2013 at 12:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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