Any advice for learning German

[Kralizec]

Follow the news: watch German TV channels, read newspapers or magazines like Der Spiegel. This works best if you already have some idea what the news items are all about as you can then infer the meaning of difficult sentences.

[SwordsMaster]

memrise.com. you need about 1000 words

[Kadagar_AV]

Hooking up with a german speaking girl sure helped me...

If you want to work with pronunciation and the language melody, I can strongly recommend Hitler's speeches. Skip the intros where he is more low tuned, and skip straight to the fiery bits at the end.

[Brennus]

Hooking up with a german speaking girl sure helped me....

And likewise in my case for French.

Thanks for all these suggestions guys.

[Fragony]

And likewise in my case for French.

Thanks for all these suggestions guys.

Huh, aren't you French? I thought you were. But learning a language is easy, just speak it. German is pretty complex just like French, people learning it should learn emperative. 'Haben sie' -do you have- is counterintuitive for English-speakers, just like 'excusez moi' is in French. It's really easy to learn both once you get the basics, they will never admit it but German and French are pretty similar, if you learn one of them you will pick up the other really fast

[Brennus]

Huh, aren't you French? I thought you were.

How did you come to that conclusion? No, I'm British. I would describe myself as a Francophile though (or more specifically a Gallophile).

Thanks for the tips Frag.

[Fragony]

I think there's a Brenus (with one "n") who is French. Thus the confusion.

Ah gotcha. German is a beautiful language, grammar may look hard at first but it's very consistant.