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I don't know anyone In real life who does so I thought I'd ask here.

At the minute my German is very basic, Worse than that of a child lol, but it's something I really want to do and I find it much easier to learn with people.

So yeah, does anyone wanna help me learn German?

Thanks,
Nom

If this shouldn't be here then I'll apologise in advance.

Nine.

I mean unless you want to know how to bum a cig. Which is the first thing I learned in middle school German class at age what is that 10?

I did french instead and I spent my last few years of German trying to learn polish to chat up a girl. Apparently girls do come before studies XD

Nein, mien Deutsche ist....... Ummmm..... Shizer.....


Or something.....




Back OT though, have you thought of buying the Rosetta Stone language discs? According to a mate of mine they were bloody brilliant in assisting him to learn Japanese.

Ja, ich könnte dir ein paar Tips geben.... pm ist unterwegs!


and @sharpedon: It's "scheiße"

I used to have a German Penpal... speaking/writing it is something that I sorely miss D:

MrMerlin, the only words I don't immediately understand are konnte (I need the umlaut, but idk the keyboard command), and paar. But the gist of your sentence is, "Yes, I can give you some tips. PM is underway!"

Ja oder nein?

You don't need to learn German when you have a perfectly good, one size fits all, language at your disposal.

Just shout, in English, speaking slowly as if to a child whilst using misleading hand waving.

Makes me proud to be British (wipes tear from eye).

Correct, Alf

"Könnte" is could, "paar" is a couple.

 MrMerlin wrote:
Correct, Alf

"Könnte" is could, "paar" is a couple.

Right, modals...

Ich kann ein bisschen Deutche sprechen.

my knowledge of German tells me that the modal verb of can says that I conjugate the kann and put the infinitive form of "speak" at the end of the sentence, but Google Translate is telling me I'm wrong, though I'm almost 100% positive I'm right, even using your sentence as a guide you have geben (to give) at the end of the sentence.

 Mr. Burning wrote:
You don't need to learn German when you have a perfectly good, one size fits all, language at your disposal.

Just shout, in English, speaking slowly as if to a child whilst using misleading hand waving.

Makes me proud to be British (wipes tear from eye).

This!
A Million Times
THIS!

 AustonT wrote:

 Mr. Burning wrote:
You don't need to learn German when you have a perfectly good, one size fits all, language at your disposal.

Just shout, in English, speaking slowly as if to a child whilst using misleading hand waving.

Makes me proud to be British (wipes tear from eye).

This!
A Million Times
THIS!

Aber, Ich Liebe Dich

After one date?

 AustonT wrote:
After one date?

I thought this was our third date.

This is what comes of knowing another heathen language!

Uno mas tequila por favor!

 Frazzled wrote:
Uno mas tequila por favor!

Que?

Buenos noches senorita. Donde esta el banyo?

 Frazzled wrote:
Buenos noches senorita. Donde esta el banyo?

I have no banjo's.

I remember a friend teaching me how to ask, "Is your daughter eighteen?" A shame I forgot how by the time I was old enough to make use of it.

 nomsheep wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Buenos noches senorita. Donde esta el banyo?

I have no banjo's.

You must be quite constipated...

 Frazzled wrote:

 nomsheep wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Buenos noches senorita. Donde esta el banyo?

I have no banjo's.

You must be quite constipated...

it is a problem that constantly irks me.

You're good.

I could possibly do it. Though it is sth I'm working on myself. I imagine I know more than you from your description, so I can probably help. One of my only major suggestions though is to work on reading sth in German.

You can try reading this story I wrote, which shouldn't be too advanced.
http://blog.sashaweb.net/?p=54


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 MrMerlin wrote:
Correct, Alf

"Könnte" is could, "paar" is a couple.

Someone lied to me. And something I wrote at de.sturmkrieg.com doesn't make any sense.


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 Alfndrate wrote:

 MrMerlin wrote:
Correct, Alf

"Könnte" is could, "paar" is a couple.

Right, modals...

Ich kann ein bisschen Deutche sprechen.

my knowledge of German tells me that the modal verb of can says that I conjugate the kann and put the infinitive form of "speak" at the end of the sentence, but Google Translate is telling me I'm wrong, though I'm almost 100% positive I'm right, even using your sentence as a guide you have geben (to give) at the end of the sentence.

Do not use Google Translate!


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Auto translators or dictionaries that only give a single synonym are useless. What you need is a list of words and their context and usage. Otherwise you end up saying dumb stuff. I was praised once for calling one of my friends a "Zweiter Weltkrieg Geschichte Streber" yet the same word didn't make any sense when I used it to translate "nerd rage" and was told that the word "nerd" in that use is untranslatable.


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And it was actually my friend. There are others like me. He was actually farther out there than I was when it came to the WWII stuff.

If questions arise, I'd be glad to help! Learning new languages is always a nice thing to do. And I realize how much it helped my English to spend a year in the US - apart from all the other benefits of studying abroad for a while.

You dont need to learn German, we won.

Instead learn to pronounce 'w' with a 'v' sounds.

Next go to a German newsagent and exclaim. "Where are your papers?"

That one never gets old.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:
I could possibly do it. Though it is sth I'm working on myself. I imagine I know more than you from your description, so I can probably help. One of my only major suggestions though is to work on reading sth in German.

You can try reading this story I wrote, which shouldn't be too advanced.
http://blog.sashaweb.net/?p=54


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 MrMerlin wrote:
Correct, Alf

"Könnte" is could, "paar" is a couple.

Someone lied to me. And something I wrote at de.sturmkrieg.com doesn't make any sense.


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 Alfndrate wrote:

 MrMerlin wrote:
Correct, Alf

"Könnte" is could, "paar" is a couple.

Right, modals...

Ich kann ein bisschen Deutche sprechen.

my knowledge of German tells me that the modal verb of can says that I conjugate the kann and put the infinitive form of "speak" at the end of the sentence, but Google Translate is telling me I'm wrong, though I'm almost 100% positive I'm right, even using your sentence as a guide you have geben (to give) at the end of the sentence.

Do not use Google Translate!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Auto translators or dictionaries that only give a single synonym are useless. What you need is a list of words and their context and usage. Otherwise you end up saying dumb stuff. I was praised once for calling one of my friends a "Zweiter Weltkrieg Geschichte Streber" yet the same word didn't make any sense when I used it to translate "nerd rage" and was told that the word "nerd" in that use is untranslatable.


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And it was actually my friend. There are others like me. He was actually farther out there than I was when it came to the WWII stuff.

I have enough context from my two years of german class, which was preceeded 3 years of Latin (Latin 3 and German 1 were taken at the same time)... Google Translate was simply being used as a reference.

I can only share how I learnt to speak German in funf easy steps .

Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4 . Usefull if you want to learn some conversational Japanese
Step 5

By the end of this you should be able to correctly use the following phrases in everyday conversation , The American , Yes , No , Emphatic Yes , Out , Faster plus many more .

 Orlanth wrote:
You dont need to learn German, we won.

XD Yah, but the US were pretty close to using it as their first language during the formation of their country. It was a split between English and it, with English only winning narrowly.So we may have been well speaking it if things had gone that way.

 Orlanth wrote:
You dont need to learn German, we won.

Instead learn to pronounce 'w' with a 'v' sounds.

Next go to a German newsagent and exclaim. "Where are your papers?"

That one never gets old.

The more important thing to learn is to pronounce V properly. That example is fairly obvious.

And the joke was terrible.

Won't stop me from saying it next time I have to show my ID to buy a drink though.