[Dr.Minky]

Hello fellow Greenies. I have decided to give an actual decent attempt at trying to learn another language. Its something I've always wanted to do in the past, and what with me speaking with a fair few of you guys here I figure now would be a good time to start! I'm going to try and learn German, didn't wanna learn french cause it suckz as its a country I'm quite likely to want to visit as find it quite interesting. Luckily I have some loooveeelyyy friends (Raptor, Xeimo, xxx) who are going to help me out! It shall take a long time I know, but I'm really looking forward to it. Too native English speakers are overly content with everyone else speaking English in my opinion

I would presume its considerably harder for an English speaker to pick up a new language, given that most of you speak at LEAST two languages already, but I was wondering what helped you guys when first learning a language? When learning a new language (preferably if you didnt have tuition), where did you start off? Do you think its best to get a better understanding of writing before you move onto speaking, or the opposite?

Thanks for any advice in advance, and to those of you helping me sorry that I'm a complete nawb

[Mathematic]

Du wixer!

[Dr.Minky]

Mathematic, on 08 January 2012 - 03:33, said:

Du wixer!

wixer? ;c

[xeim]

Dr.Minky, on 08 January 2012 - 03:39, said:

Mathematic, on 08 January 2012 - 03:33, said:

Du wixer!

wixer? ;c

He propably meant "Wichser" still not a decent word in my opinion

[Mr. Darkness]

How many languages do you know already?

[Cookie]

We are forced to learn at least Deutsch, English and French at our schools in Holland on a decent educational level. It horrible.

But I recommend you try to speak Dutch cuz it's way more awsam than Deutsch .

We are the masters of bad words. We haven't got a single decent sentence without a fucking bad word in it

[Dr.Minky]

Mr. Darkness, on 08 January 2012 - 03:40, said:

How many languages do you know already?

Just English, that's why I want to learn one now. I had to learn French through middle school and I hated it.. Only cause the language sucked imo, so I want to start on a language that sounds interesting to me that I will use regularly.

Dutch, is, a possibility. In the future. But German now, it will be the easiest to learn as I talk to Germans more frequently. But I'd like to learn more languages in the future It'd be fun to go traveling

This post has been edited by Dr.Minky: 08 January 2012 - 03:56

[Tom Klijbroek]

The cases are pretty hard. Like when to choose between writing 'der' or 'die' or 'das' or 'des' or 'dem' or whatever. I got most of them wrong during an oral exam and my teacher called me a bad guesser.

[Cookie]

Tom Klijbroek, on 08 January 2012 - 03:56, said:

The cases are pretty hard. Like when to choose between writing 'der' or 'die' or 'das' or 'des' or 'dem' or whatever. I got most of them wrong during an oral exam and my teacher called me a bad guesser.

I NEVER got 'em right at school. NEVER! Even with gambling just one of those options I still got 3's and 4's out of 10. It was fucking horrible.

[Dr.Minky]

Tom Klijbroek, on 08 January 2012 - 03:56, said:

The cases are pretty hard. Like when to choose between writing 'der' or 'die' or 'das' or 'des' or 'dem' or whatever. I got most of them wrong during an oral exam and my teacher called me a bad guesser.

Care to elaborate?

[xeim]

I can not imagine learning my own language uhhh xD sounds pretty tough! But i believe in you minky

[Cookie]

xeim, on 08 January 2012 - 04:02, said:

I can not imagine learning my own language uhhh xD sounds pretty tough! But i believe in you minky

You should visit Holland and go to school there. You will laugh at how no one can pronounce it.

[Tom Klijbroek]

I can't really explain it, it brings back these german-course-schooltraumas. But English is easier cause it's just 'the man', 'the woman', 'the child', everything is 'the', but in German that would be 'der Mann', 'die Frau', 'das Kind' every word has it's own article, and it depends on the sentence and the word which one you should use.

[Tom Klijbroek]

But it's the best language to shout commands at anybody. You can't do that in French.

[Dr.Minky]

Tom Klijbroek, on 08 January 2012 - 04:12, said:

I can't really explain it, it brings back these german-course-schooltraumas. But English is easier cause it's just 'the man', 'the woman', 'the child', everything is 'the', but in German that would be 'der Mann', 'die Frau', 'das Kind' every word has it's own article, and it depends on the sentence and the word which one you should use.

So I guess its masculine and feminine words, like in French its le, la, etc. At least I've been over it once before, should help with general sentence structure

Tom Klijbroek, on 08 January 2012 - 04:18, said:

But it's the best language to shout commands at anybody. You can't do that in French.

This post has been edited by Dr.Minky: 08 January 2012 - 04:19

[Damien]

I learned english from watching lots off tv, it atleast gives you a base to start with. so i would recommend to watch some german tv with english subtitles. (to start with)

btw: if you want to try dutch, i would gladly teach you.

[Tootao]

Look at google video how to learn

[Hundred2]

Polizei eins zwei drei.

[Dr. Pannenkoek]

Listen to Rammstein

[Messy]

German is hard enough, good luck. I have been doing it for 4 years now at school and I can't speak it yet.

I believe French and German are very important to know. French because it is spoken by millions of people, not only in Europe but in Africa too, and German because it is one of the most spoken languages in Europe.

Someday, I wanna learn German, French and Dutch fluently. I don't consider learning more languages as important, since everyone speaks English today,