My boyfriend's family is from Germany, in fact they immigrated to Canada when my boyfriend was just 6 months old. His mom and dad speak it constantly and his grandpa knows absolutely no English. It's quite difficult to talk to them. Does anyone know how I can learn German? Do I have to take a correnspondence course of some sort?
Theres no easy way to do.You just got take courses or lessons from someone.There are ways to make it easier to learn,but you still got to get your hands dirty.
I'll post all the websites that helped me. http://conjd.cactus2000.de/index.php - Conjugation website (for verbs) http://www.ielanguages.com/German.html - A little lesson course for free http://german.about.com/library/blprestense2.htm - a lot of words commonly used http://www.languageguide.org/im/alpha/de/ - you can listen how to pronounce the alphabet (very close to english) Umlaubs lowercase: ö - alt + 0246 ä - alt + 0228 ü - alt + 0242 ß - alt + 0223 uppercase: Ä - alt + 0196 Ö - alt + 0214 Ü - alt + 0220 remember german is very very close to english imo ill post more later
When you've learned a bit english you should start watching german movies (They're mostly not good (Without offending anyone in here), but that's not what counts) Watch them with english subtitles and then one day you won't need the subtitles anymore. And that way you'll learn how it sounds. I learned english mostly that way (and of course in the school) and now I'm pretty good at it.
It depends on what you are looking for. If you expect to watch a flaming truck being thrown over some vertiginous gap between two submarines on an LA suburban highway, German movies really suck. ;-) *** Learning a language: With the will to achieve it finally. Nothing more, nothing less.
