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Learn German – German Fruit Vocabulary
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Learn German words using the learn german with Pictures series from GermanPod101.com.
Beautiful images clearly show German vocabulary divided into units by topic.
Each word is introduced in English and German. It’s a great way to study new vocabulary words that will build up your proficiency in German and lead you on your way to mastering this beautiful language!
In this German lesson you’ll learn the vocabulary for fruits in German: watermelon, peach, strawberry, apple, banana, orange, mango, cherry, pineapple, and melon.
When you’re trying to tell your German penpal about your favorite fruit, know exactly what to write!
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Where can I learn German free and effectively?
I have always wanted to learn the german language but I don’t wanna pay to learn it and I don’t want it to take forever. Where can I go to learn it for free and effectively?
Looking a nice video in both languages and ask questions about the foreign language on Yahoo Answers.
If you want to get such videos with both languages, I can send you some links per email. I do not post them here. Email me, if you are interested.
Learn German Grammar – 20 most used verbs 4 können to be able to, can
http://www.deutschhappen.com In this series of videos you will learn the most often used verbs in German. I will conjugate them in the Present Tense, Simple Past, Present Perfect and Simple Future. Fourth video: können – to be able to, can
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What is the most effective method to learn 5 paragraphs of German in 1 week?
I have a German speaking exam next week and I need to know a fast effective way to learn german… Please help. Yes the best answer will obviously receive the best answer reward 
you could just read it all the time, and try and go over it in your head. without looking at it. atleast 45 minutes everyday trying to learn it, but it might be a good idea for you to just vaguely know it and be able to have a conversation and speak fluent german in your orals i assume, as the questioner might ask you things and angle them differently from the way you have it remembered. good luck.
Learn German with SpeedyConKiwi! #8: Interactive Intermission!
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what is the Easiest way to learn german?
I really really really want to learn german. I know a few basic words. I spent some time there recently. But what is the easiest way for me to learn? can anyone here speak german ?
Be born to German parents and grow up in Germany. You probably need to find the second easiest way.
Learn German – Lesson 5
Hello and welcome to German 1. In lesson 5 you will find the complete declension of the German definite article with all its forms. Thank you for watching.
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German 1
Lesson 1: “sein” – present tense.
The personal pronouns
Lesson 2: The grammatical gender
Lesson 3: The grammatical number
Lesson 4: The grammatical case
Lesson 5: The definite article
– forms
Lesson 6: The definite article
– nominative and genitive
Lesson 7: The definite article
– dative and accusative
Lesson 8: “haben” – present tense
Lesson 9: The conjugation system
Lesson 10: The verb – present tense endings
Lesson 11: The verb – irregular present tense
Lesson 12: The singular noun – n-declension
Lesson 13: The singular noun – s-declension (1)
Lesson 14: The singular noun – s-declension (2)
Lesson 15: The singular noun – s-declension (3)
Lesson 16: The singular noun – zero declension
Lesson 17: The plural noun – declension
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How long does it take to learn german while living in germany?
I am moving to germany for 10 months. i know absolutely no german. will i be able to learn it fluently? i will be 15 when i leave and i will go to school there.
How long all depends on the individual. At your age, you can learn a lot while living there for almost a year. Start now with some kind of practice. There are several DVD courses that you can buy that might be a good investment where you can start now, and practice everyday while you are there. There are some basic lessons you can take online for free too. Just do a Google search for "Learning German, Online" and see what looks good to you. One of the best ways to learn german effectively is to take a german language course in a German-speaking country. Hopefully your school will have that. In a completely German-speaking environment, in 10 months you should be able to read read some German texts, understand some spoken German and successfully communicate with the locals. Just how successfully depends on you and your talent for it!
Really, it all depends on how determined you are, how much you enjoy German, and how you apply yourself. However, since you will be there 24/7, you will be forced to listen to the language all day long, so you will learn some no matter what your attitude. If you can find someone there who will work with you, that will help, and like I mentioned it would be best to take a course in learning German – you should find one if you are living in a good sized city. German has many similarities with English, so I hope you enjoy your learning. Viel Glueck! (Good Luck!)
Learn German with SpeedyConKiwi! #7: NOMINATIV – first case – plus bonus questions!
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today we’re talking about the first case in German grammar, the nominative (der Nominativ)
In order to know when to use the nominative for a noun in a sentence, you’ll have to ask the following questions:
“What is that? (Was ist das?)” or
“Who is that? (Wer ist das?)”
If the noun in a sentence is the answer to one of those two questions, you’ll know you have to use the nominative form of it.
Examples used here:
“Das ist ein Apfel. (This is an apple)” and
“Das ist Kiwi. (This is Kiwi)”
who? – wer?
what? – was?
der Apfel – the apple
ein Apfel – an apple
The next three learn german videos will be about the three other cases of German grammar:
- Genitiv
- Dativ
- Akkusativ
I’ll provide you with more explanatory questions that will help you to figure out what case to use for what noun in a sentence (and yes, unfortunately those other three cases will be even more difficult to explain and understand).
I hope this was helpful!
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What is the best way to learn German?
I very much want to learn the german language, but I can’t find one good method to do so.
Non-native German speakers- and anyone who has learned a foreign language- how did you learn? Please give me any tips you can.
I’ve been learning German on my own for a 2 years now, and actually have had reasonable success. I wouldn’t consider myself fluent or anything, but i could probably get by with my German abilities (but im not positive i haven’t spoken to anyone in German in a while).
Rosetta Stone honestly was a complete waste of money. You really won’t learn much for the value of it, however if you can afford it it will get you over the basic basic german. Rosetta stone won’t teach you any of German’s complicated grammar either. I’m really not a big fan of grammar, i think its more important to learn vocabulary in order to be able to communicate first, and learn the grammar that is affecting your ability to be able to communicate, write, and read succesfully. However, Rosetta Stone does not explain any of the grammar and expects you to learn it all basically through osmosis.
Also Barron’s learn german the fast and fun way, is decent for starting out, but its going to start you out with immersing you in it and it will be more brute memorization then rosetta stone if you really want to learn the vocabulary. The good part about Barron’s book is that it will teach you some important grammar, but not an overwhelming frustrating amount that’s gonna make you wan tto quit learning.
Once you know a bit of German, I’ve found, for me atleast, the Lustige dialoge (funny dialogues) book to be extremely good. It gives you a bunch of short stories, that have a twist at the end that’s "funny" their generally so stupid its kinda humorous, but these storeis are much more interesting then traditional texts in German where they’re going to go over culture and random boring stuff that just makes you want to quit learning. After the Dialogue, there are a few questions adn then it gives you some grammar exercises if you want to do them. The book doesn’t teach you any of the grammar for the exercises but i’ve found http://www.ielanguages.com/German.html to be a really good website for any grammar. After your done, or while your going through the passage and questions, i personally underline any of the words that i dont know and make vocab cards out of the words that i don’t know and then study those. The only down side to the book is that it doesn’t have an answer key, but the book is such a good tool for learning German that i’d use it anyways. Plus there are two sequals to it, Geschichten Mit Humor (Stories with humar) and Spannende Geschichten (Exciting stories) Descritions of the books are on http://www.glencoe.com/sec/catalog/cgi-bin/secDisplay.cgi?function=display&area=fl&category=productinfo&nameid=810, and you can order them on amazon, or you can order them through borders and request to see the book first before you purchase it.
Two most important things with learning German
1. Try to study every day, ATLEAST every other day. Yes there’s going to be occataionally days where you can’t study because your too busy to study, but make sure you study atleast the next day if you have too. If you don’t you will get out of the habit of learning German and will likely end up qutting.
2. Mix it up occationally. Sometimes a too formated routine for learning a language gets boring. Listen to songs in German (even if you don’t really understand the words to it) Ohne Dich (without you) is a very basic song in German that would be a good one to start out with though. But there are many other ways you can mix it up such as: read newspaper articles in german and try to get a general gist of what they’re saying even if that means using the dictionary a bit but try not to look up word for word (that drives me crazy atleast), use podcast on itunes, there’s a ton of podcast for people from uber beginners in German to Advance, to podcast meant for people who speak fluent German, go to the library and see if there are any little kids/simple books in german, rent/buy a movie in german and try to get some meaning out of it, and even if you don’t understand much of it you start to pick up how the words are seperated and slurred together after listening to it for a while, Speak/email other people you know who speak German, find a pen pal for German, and find ways that you find are fun ways to learn German, I’m positive those aren’t the only ways.
Don’t follow what i said exactly, tweak it up for what works for you, only take what you find useful, whatever works, we all learn in different ways. That’s just the way i’ve found i’ve been able to learn German with
Hope that helps 
