Learning German
Well, I figured since I half-assed the Russian thread. We should at least have a half-assed German thread!
Is anyone interested!? I'd be happy to teach you some things to navigate your way through the various "Städte" (Shtete) a.k.a. cities of Deutschland! __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ LINKS TO POSTS CONTAINING GERMAN COURSES Verb Conjugation: Kommen Learning German Articles: Der, Die and Das! German Articles: Der, Die and Das | Re-Explained & Easier to Understand Los Geht's: Wer bist du? | Erste Stufe Los Geht's & Erste Stufe Study Guide |
YAY. :D
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Haha! I love you Queenie.
Woot - I pick up French next year as well! Yay Language <333 |
You totally knew I was gonna be soooo happy about this :gigi:
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Okay I'm gonna get my German notebook ready! |
Ohh I'm interested. Couldn't hurt. :p -bookmarks thread-
Offtop: Is there a "Learning Spanish" thread too? I looked a while back and got nothing. :confused: |
TreIsCool32, as far as I remember, there's not... maybe a Spanish speaking member can help us out? :) I took Spanish for 4,5 years but I can only say "Hola" :p The only thing I could help with would be exercises, I've got a lot of those...
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I'm learniing german! :p
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Alright, so lets start with the basics of verb conjugation for Nominative Case.
The imporant thing to remember when learning a foreign language - is that they do not operate like New Age English does. Your verbs in English have no definate ending to them. You can say "I Come From" and "You Come From" and it's correct both ways, because in Modern English - you do not change the ending of the verb you are using. If you did not understand that - please re-read until you do. It's crucial to understanding what is below. However - saying "Ich Komme Aus" (I come from) and "Du Komme Aus" (You come from) - is incorrect in German, because each verb has to have a different ending depending on if you use He, She, It, etc". If you are familiar with Russian or any other Slavic languages, this concept will be easy for you. Any time you use a Pro-noun (I, Me, You, etc) you will need to change the case ending on the verb (Run, dance, sing, etc) that you use. Here is a chart to help break it down, just ask if you have questions. I will bold the way you change the endings on verbs below so you have a visual image of how to format verbs so that they agree with their pronouns. Quote:
As you can see, the endings that are bolded show how you change the pronouns and the verbs so that they match each other to form a correct German sentence! You're well on your way to mastering German if you can understand this concept, so study and memorize it! This is important becuase - any verb you use in German will function this way, with the exact same case endings, unless it is an irregular verb. And even irreular verbs have only small changes like removing an "e" from the forms of "Ich" and removing the t from "Er, Sie, Es" Now - this may sound like a big jumble of random German words, but you really really will find this very simple after you memorize that chart and can plug in your knolwedge of German pronouns into all of this that I've typed! If any of you are familiar with Shakespeare you'll recognize how English and German are similar. Example: I know not = I don't know Thou knowest not = You do not know Do you see how the verb's ending changes when you use either "I" or "You" in Old English? - This is because English is a language that has many roots in German. So many things will be similar! Please let me know if you've got any questions! I'll be happy to further explain! |
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FOR EXAMPLE: "to be" I am You are He/She is It is We are They are "to do" I do You do He/She does It does We do They do ...as can be shown with many other verbs in the English language. |
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But my dear Lisa, you are indeed correctomundo on that example. |
Beautiful conjuation -Adruz-
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uuuu! i can help you with Mexican spanish :kawai: |
Thanks Tim and Lisa for the information. :D
Offtop: I know a fair bit of Spanish. :p I just want to further it a lot more. Someone (or I can) should start the thread! :) |
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Haha! Of course not!
I know I'm a bitch but I'm not THAT much of a bitch lol! _________________________________ Is everyone finding what I wrote up there understandable though? |
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Go ahead, start it, and me and some other spanish speaking members will help you |
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OMG! this thread reminds me that I've studied german for 5 years ... hmmm maybe 7 haha! I don't even remember it
my remaining is this beautiful sentence : Ich bin ein Ameisenbär :p Good luck for german :rose: interesting thread anyway |
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