Learning German

SKYNHEDD

SKYNHEDD

SKYNHEDD

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Simple question...

I want to learn German and realise there are lots of resources like the BBC, and stuff on the internet like Rosetta stone etc etc..

However, after checking all these out, they all seem to concentrate on oral skills and just have you speaking it and listening also.

I'd rather learn a structured course and have tests/exams to do so I can practise reading and writing, and be able to test myself and my own progress.

Are there any online resources for GCSE German or somethign like that, that I could work my way through at my own pace?

Any tips/pointers would be very much appreciated.

danke.
 
SKYNHEDD said:
Simple question...

I want to learn German and realise there are lots of resources like the BBC, and stuff on the internet like Rosetta stone etc etc..

However, after checking all these out, they all seem to concentrate on oral skills and just have you speaking it and listening also.

I'd rather learn a structured course and have tests/exams to do so I can practise reading and writing, and be able to test myself and my own progress.

Are there any online resources for GCSE German or somethign like that, that I could work my way through at my own pace?

Any tips/pointers would be very much appreciated.

danke.
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The National Extension College offer GCSEs and A-Levels by distance learning. You could also look at the Open University as they offer German from Beginners upwards.

I'll have a think for other ideas :)
 
Evening classes are your friend here, learning a language is much easier in a classroom environment with other people and a fluent teacher. You will make much much faster progress this week and get a social life, check your local colleges.
 
Move to germany, you'll soon pick up the language.

I spent 2 weeks in Poland with family and by the end of the first week I could understand them just based on scenerios and gestures, would take a little longer to reply in Polish though lol

*Remembers that South Park episode*

"Essen meine Scheiße"
"Okie Dokie"
 
You can start by watching Das Boot with the subtitles...

Guten morgen Kommandant/Leutnant!

ALAAAAARM!!!!!

Ein tousand, zwei tousand, drei tousand...

etc.

Edit: that must be wrong - they never dropped to three thousand anything :confused: :eek:
 
Get thyself a good grammar book and go to town..although most of it is the same...i dunno with german, its just a case of lots of vocab learning and suchlike i guess.

cant remember my german lessons in school..shoulda paid more attention
 
You might as well forget it unless you immerse yourself and move to Germany. I don't mean to be nasty but you don't really seem the type to be able to live and work overseas judging on some of your other posts.
 
Em3bbs said:
You might as well forget it unless you immerse yourself and move to Germany. I don't mean to be nasty but you don't really seem the type to be able to live and work overseas judging on some of your other posts.
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I dunno about that..German is a pretty easy language to learn for a native english speaker..I dont think you need immersion although obviously it will make things faster.
 
SKYNHEDD said:
Simple question...

I want to learn German and realise there are lots of resources like the BBC, and stuff on the internet like Rosetta stone etc etc..

However, after checking all these out, they all seem to concentrate on oral skills and just have you speaking it and listening also.

I'd rather learn a structured course and have tests/exams to do so I can practise reading and writing, and be able to test myself and my own progress.

Are there any online resources for GCSE German or somethign like that, that I could work my way through at my own pace?

Any tips/pointers would be very much appreciated.

danke.
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the best type of course depends on what u want it for really... is it just for holiday speaking? or more in depth?
 
Open University might be a good suggestion for learning at your chosen pace etc. Also, suggest buy some German CD’s to listen to while you sleep. Your sub-consciousness will relay the information to your consciousness during waking hours, while you study the language ‘for real’; it will seem as if you are learning in double quick time (which you are, just not while you are aware) – it is like training that part of your brain to act like ‘Prefetch’ in Windows.
 
reminds me of zis joke

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
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