I would like to learn German, but I want to learn it properly, rather than using sites like Duolingo. What was the traditional method for teaching oneself a language, assuming one could not visit the country? If there is a book that will suffice then I would appreciate recommendations.
I would like to learn German, but I want to learn it properly, rather than using sites like Duolingo...
Brandon Thompson
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Dominic Hill
Textbooks for 5th - 13th grade. If you're done with one grade, do the next one.
Also, consume a lot of german media. Read german books (start with kids/YA), movies, video games etc.
Sebastian Green
Wenn du ein harter bist, dann kannst du einfach alle Bücher auf Deutsch lesen. Nach und nach lernst du die Sprache, Wörter die du nicht kennst einfach am Pc suchen und anhören.
Für Muschis lies n Buch welches du schon auf englisch gelesen hast.
Jacob Campbell
I addition to what's already been said. Try looking for German exchange students or expats in your town.
Reviewing everything you learned and talking to a native once a week will really help you.
James Thomas
Fresse halten du Nase
Benjamin Allen
Ruhe jetzt du Jogurt.
Colton Sanders
If you just want to read it, get the book German for Reading by Sandberg
Robert Butler
just watch german television and maybe use something like anki studying, but i wouldnt recommend german anyway, the people are retarded and unfriendly
Chase Phillips
> not learn german to read philosophy and lit
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Michael Jenkins
>1. Learn pronunciation
>2. Learn most common words and meme sentences à la "Hallo mein Name ist user. Ich mag deutsches Bier und türkische Frauen."
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>4. You now speak German
Connor Edwards
>Ich mag [...] türkische Frauen
Was bist du? Ein Cuck?
Brody Walker
Würg alter, was ist denn mit dir los?
Daniel Hill
Get a textbook or take a class. For textbooks, I personally went to my local library and picked the one I liked the most (I think it was Colloquial German).
Duolingo is a good ressource, you should just only use it as a supplement to your studies.
You should also use TV, reading and/or Anki as a supplement.
Carson Flores
1. Get a beginner textbook and complete it front to back. All the grammar, all the shit that teaches you about breakfast, the weather, etc. Listen to the alphabet over and over again to get an elementary feel for what the language will sound like. Do this alongside duolingo. Try and read a few little children's books. You won't be able to get them word for word, but it's something.
2. Get an intermediate textbook. Watch German movies with German subtitles on. Find a speaking partner if you can. Focus on the sentence constructions and read your exercises out loud. German has a very distinctive rhythm to it. If you get the stress and rhythm down you can immediately tell when you have fucked up a word or sentence because it throws the musicality off. Get a long sheet of verb forms that gives you the infinitive/preterite/past participle forms (eg brennen/brannte/gebrannt) of around a 100 verbs - most grammar books should have something like this inside them. Read it out loud until you can almost do it by memory. This will help IMMENSELY with getting to a point where you can guess at verbs without having to understand all the weak/strong technical stuff. Keep doing duolingo. Pick up a copy of something by Michael Ende. He's a children's book writer who is still pretty patrician. Use a dictionary while reading and translate every. single. word. and complicated sentence you don't know and write it in the margins. It might take you a good year to finish a book this way but you will learn so much by doing it.
3. If you can't decline by heart stay at intermediate level. If you can, it's time to start reading good shit. Pick up "German Quickly" by April Wilson and complete it cover to cover. It's a textbook but you get to encounter lots of fun stuff in it from the Luther Bible, Brothers Grimm, Kleist, Nietzsche, etc. You should be able to read about 60% of a text without a dictionary at this point if you've been memorizing vocab well enough (that's where the translating Ende comes in handy. Seriously, do it.) After that pick up some Hesse. He's popular, classy, and really quite easy to read at this point. Keep translating word for word. Finish duolingo.
After this step you're going to start noticing your learning slow down. Try moving on to other famous writers you're curious about. Kafka is a good step after Hesse. Try some nonfiction after that. Get some Goethe after Kafka and work your way up to Mann. You will still be picking the dictionary up, but most of the fundamentals should be second nature thanks to the grammar books, and especially if you have been practicing speaking.
Parker Wood
Anyone have aPDF/ePub/mobi/etc. of this?
Ayden Moore
It's on thepiratebay
Jose Campbell
I'd recommend learning another language. German is simply too harsh and ugly. After only a week in Germany I began to hate hearing the horrible language. I'd be happy if I never heard it again. Learn a romance language.
Isaac Miller
>er mag nicht turkische Frauen
Joshua Jenkins
Schauen deutsch porno
Zachary Hernandez
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Cameron Parker
Right you are, thanks. Not sure why I didn't check there. So used to checking mobilism and LibGen I guess. Mind you, no one is seeding this on TPB. Claims one person, but no peers are online. Damn.
Adrian Jenkins
>the people are retarded and unfriendly
Really? I've been to Germany multiple times. The people there are very friendly.
Dominic Cox
Falling for the white women meme.
Back to /pol/ with you.
Dominic Price
Sei einfach du selbst.
Wyatt Wood
Calling everything a meme, just cause you have shit taste.
Yeah that'll show em
Dylan Rogers
>learning shitskin language
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Matthew Nguyen
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