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Related: German • Schatzkammeruntitled MY FIRST TRIP TO GERMANY was courtesy of my law school, which gave me the opportunity to apply for a summer job in Hamburg. My undergraduate degrees were in Music and German, and I’d always thought I’d get a job singing in Germany. But I was in law school, so I took the law job. As it turns out, reading Schiller’s plays and singing Goethe’s poems doesn’t actually make you fluent in contemporary German. The Homeschool Den Thursday, January 10th, 2013 Last semester, we spent time reading simple stories together in German. There are a couple of stories we downloaded from Amazon, Peter und das Huhn and Der Kartoffel-troll. We read them aloud together and I had the kids do a few activities related to those stories. #FootballGerman: learn with the Bundesliga pros! - bundesliga.com Ever wondered how to navigate the maze of German football vocabulary? Well wonder no longer because the Bundesliga stars are on hand to help you out! Every Monday and Thursday, bundesliga.com - with a helping hand from some of the top-flight's biggest names - will be teaching those not so familiar with the wonderful German language a new word from the football lexicon.
7 Legit Strategies for Newbies Learning to Read German Reading is undoubtedly an important part of learning German. Not to mention, there are tons of benefits to cracking the German code. Being able to read everyday material makes it much easier to get around if you’re visiting Germany. This basic ability will open the doors to new vocabulary and deeper comprehension — as well as, say, let you brush up on German proverbs. It also allows you to follow the subtitles in German movies if you’re not yet able to understand all of the spoken language unaided. Step into German - For Teachers - Goethe-Institut In their free time, your students listen to music, watch movies, play sports. Why not make their personal interests part of your German classroom? Why not work with teaching materials that focus on German music, film and soccer? We provide you with a great variety of videos, podcasts and worksheets that you can use in class without much preparation time and that are bound to capture your students’ attention. And don’t be surprised if your students will find the materials so appealing they will Step into German even outside the classroom! Teaching materials “Music”
4 Quick Tips for Learning German Word Order What’s the hardest part of learning German? For English speakers, it just might be German word order. The German word order, when you translate it literally into English, comes out looking like some kind of bizarre, Shakespearian knot that needs serious untying. It’s one of the many obstacles that need to be overcome for German learners. Hopefully, this post can help you tame German word order.
Top 100 German verbs - The German Professor This verb list comes from Randall Jones & Erwin Tschirner’s A Frequency Dictionary of German. Core Vocabulary for Learners, which lists the 4034 (!) most commonly used words in German. We’ll be doing lots of fun things with this list with posts in the coming weeks. See also: Lessons from the Top German verbs list & Top 500 German words German Short Stories For Beginners - LearnOutLive There are many ways to learn or teach German, but my favorite approach is using stories. I can think of a number of reasons why learning German with stories is so effective, but the best one is this: because it’s fun! Learning a language can easily become a chore, so anything that takes your mind off the struggle while keeping you engaged is heaven-sent.
Expanding Your Vocabulary Let’s take a look on how big a vocabulary you need to reach fluency in an Indo-European language like German. The first few landmarks are not that difficult to achieve. 100-150 wordsIf you are able to understand somewhere between the 100 and 150 most common words in German, you should be able to understand around 50% of the words in a German text. 250-300 wordsIn order to speak in sentences fairly smoothly you need to know, and actively be able to use, the 300 most frequent words in German. These words are absolutely necessary. 800-1500 wordsA person will during a typical day use somewhere between 800 and 1500 different words.