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    Default Re: Any advice for learning German

    memrise.com. you need about 1000 words
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    Hooking up with a german speaking girl sure helped me....
    And likewise in my case for French.

    Thanks for all these suggestions guys.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Brennus View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    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.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
    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.

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    I only ever studied French and German for a couple of years, but I always found that German made a lot more sense to me. The whole way that sentences are structured seems to be more similar to English than French is.

    Funnily enough I also took a notion to learn some German recently. Unemployment and all that, lol.

    I hoped my brother would have a school textbook but he doesn't, so any online resources would be nice.
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