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This technical approach is how I tried and failed to learn German. In the end what worked was exposure/absorption and getting a feel for what sounds right - the
by dspig 7y ago
This technical approach is how I tried and failed to learn German. In the end what worked was exposure/absorption and getting a feel for what sounds right - the same way I learnt my native language.
- romes 7y agoI agree that you it would be very hard to know a language approaching it from a completely technical standpoint... In sharing this link I'm not advocating a total technical approach! As for exposure/absorption you are completely right, I have attempted to create a mini Germany head space. What I'm doing and recommend to whoever interested: - I switched my Phone's language to Deutsch. When searching the web I end up with results in German that I try to comprehend if I have time: looking up the word on the translator (and less often on an online german dictionary - which i should be doing more) -I started listening to songs in German (I came to like the first albums by Tocotronic) -I have joined a discord server titled "German Learning And Discussion" (should anyone want to search for it) , if I have time at night I join a call with a couple of natives and learners. -I check Duolingo's stories and exercises now and then, although not my favourite methodology.
- novaRom 7y agoDon't forget r/de on Reddit
- romes 7y agooh! definitely going to check that out. thank you!
- siruncledrew 7y agoThe memes and comments there actually helped me a lot with learning expressions, idioms, and “shorthand” that modern German speakers use. Little everyday nuances I would have missed from just reading books.
- quelltext 7y agoHmm, actually a lot of the memes there are parodies of the English ones you find on Reddit. Just saying that a lot of them are almost nonsensical to someone not familiar with Reddit's English language meme culture.
- lorenzhs 7y agoThat's probably a bad idea, r/de delights in literal translations of English expressions and memes. Many comments are completely incomprehensible to outsiders. It's a parody on the English-speaking parts of reddit and not a good place to learn German. Not unless you can distinguish when they're butchering the language for fun from when it's actual colloquial German.
- leipert 7y agoNative German speaker here. Other recommendations (I learned English this way): - Watch movies / TV series with (German) subtitles. Recommendations: Dubbed stuff that is easy to digest like e.g. Crime Stuff / Big Bang Theory. - Or more advanced, German productions: Dark on Netflix; Babylon Berlin; Bad Banks; Stromberg (The Office clone); Tatortreiniger; Tatort. - Read books like that you might know in your native language: the Little Prince, Harry Potter.
- romes 7y agoyes! nice! i will soon attempt to read a simple book like maybe literally The Little Prince haven't unfortunately watched a lot of those the past days but will look for what you recommended!
- philsnow 7y ago> Dark on Netflix When I played this for the first time, it took me a while to figure out why their lips weren't agreeing with what they were saying. By default Netflix played the English dub for me instead of German audio with English subtitles. The subject matter of Dark is good enough that I would watch it anyway, but if it's originally in German? Huge bonus. I have been watching it on German audio with "description" in German (so there's a narrator talking about things people are doing, describing their facial expressions, etc) and English subtitles. I wish there were more content like this available in the States.
- FabHK 7y agoThis is not a course for learning German, but for learning how to read and understand written German with the help of a dictionary.