Is it possible that members who are good in German, to start a thread of single sentence/phrase leading to a conversation. I will help the beginners to learn the spoken language.
I too have really wanted to learn how to speak German. After having our son in 97' I went and checked out tapes to try and teach myself by listening over and over when the baby would be napping. I just fell out of the habit of listening to them, and had nobody to speak it with....kinda made it seem pointless. My grandmother is from Germany and I remember her from when I was a little girl, she would speak German and try to teach me how to say things. Always thought that was so cool! She taught me "I love you".
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That's awesome Heather! That's how I started too... listening to tapes and CDs, etc. But on those things the people talk sooo fast and I had no idea why they pronounced certain words the way they did and I got highly frustrated.
That's when I started looking into some of the community colleges in my area for continuing education classes on German. So I ended up taking German 1 and German 2 and that helped me a lot! I just need to be sure I practice on my own and listen to my CDs. Also I keep in touch with some of my classmates and we try to meet up at local German restaurants and festivals. I plan on taking the courses over again next summer as a refresher.
Douglas, remember numbers are the "wrong" way round in german. Du bist sieben und fuenfzig Jahre alt.
Hallo, ich bin Wendy. Ich bin Suedafrikanerin aber lebe momentan in Kenia. Ich habe Deutsch an der Uni gelernt (damals!). Jetzt, gibt es kaum die Chance mein Deutsch zu ueben. Lassen wir zusammen ueben.
Hallo zusammen, Wendy (Grüße nach Kenia) hat völlig recht: 57 ist siebenundfünfzig. Die zweistelligen Zahlen im Deutschen sind zum teil schwierig. 21 ist einundzwanzig, 35 fünfunddreißig... die Zahlen zwischen zehn (10) und zwanzig (20) sind einfacher für Englischsprecher: 11 = Elf, 12 = Zwölf, 13 = Dreizehn, 14 = Vierzehn... Mit Zahlen über Hundert wird es wieder einfacher: 102 = Hundertzwei, 312 = Dreihundertzwölf, 1081 = Tausendeinundachtzig --- da wird die Hunderter- oder Tausenderstelle einfach vorangestellt. Man sagt auch für 1951 Neunzehnhunderteinundfünfzig, wenn man das Jahr meint. Schöne Grüße an alle (Wendy, ich schreibe morgen mal eine längere Email an Dich). Es ist viertel vor neun (8:45) und ich muß in die Arbeit... Bis bald: Peter