@@debzv8995 Not really. I think the best method is to get a book that teaches a lot of phases and start from there, use an app for language application / listening comprehension, and then as soon as you can, start watching videos in German. This is a list of materials and free resources from Goethe Gesellschaft (they also have centers in many countries): www.goethe.de/en/spr/unt/kum.html I will put it on my list though, maybe I can come up with something. I personally learned all my languages with books first (to level A1, and then started using an app). With Persian I had study materials, but those were part of the books... Sometimes you find an "Übungsbuch/Übungsheft" for a book, as in an extra booklet just for exercises (with solutions). Those are usually really good! I think that commercial materials (apart from videos) are always better than free stuff. Because there's a whole division behind it, quality management and linguistics experts, and that is often not given with free stuff that is just floating around the internet...
@@debzv8995 Actually I looked some stuff up. And there is a Grammar Book from Langenscheidt and also one from Hueber. The title is in German, but inside it is in English. I have the same for French and Hueber is really good to practice Grammer I would say. shop.hueber.de/en/sprache-lernen/deutsch-als-fremdsprache-daf-daz/grammatik/deutsch-grammatik-leicht-a1-978-3-19-011721-5.html
@@saadabainou9089 Hi, I am still interested in German, yes. I guess consistency was a key and I can read and understan a lot of stuff now. But I have to communicate with austrians and it seems that their german is a bit different. I dont know how to tackle that. Are you learning?
@@Sonicstillpoint83 Meistens macht es mir Spaß, Deutsch zu lernen, aber ich fühle wirklich den Schmerz, wenn ich es nicht verstanden habe, und ehrlich gesagt, ich habe ein Problem mit dem Hören
When I was 24, I thought "Oh, I'll learn German in one year. I'll learn Chinese in two years. By the time I'm 30, I'll know four or five foreign languages." I'm 35 now and I'm nowhere near mastering German or Chinese. I spent some time in Dresden and had to spend quite a while just learning to understand the East German accent, even though I knew the vocabulary. Then I went to Munich and I had to spend some time getting used to the Bavarian accent. Six months is nothing. You won't be able to understand any native material in six months. Learning a language is a long and difficult process, but it's rewarding in the end.
Yeah, exactly. It takes years. It took me two months to get from B1 to C2 in English but all I did was learn English all day. It took me another half year to get to technicial and literature English. However, if you truly study a language, you can definitely get to A2 in 6 months. Even in German. But you have to be extremely disciplined.
if you do it right, you could master German in 4-5 years and Chinese in another 8-10. By master I mean Highly educated native, proficient in all areas.
It helps with my motivation when I am learning languages that are in the same language family. Since I am currently learning Dutch, some familiarity will come when I start learning the German language. I will know the right time to start learning German. The time is not now.🌍🌎🌏🌐🗺
This is so true, yes!!! Same for me with Dutch since I started Swedish! All of a sudden I understand so much more. French is also super helpful with many languages I find...
@@LearnGermanorcrytrying I think I am going to revise my decision, No German After all. I think my next language to be acquired is probably Hindi or Indonesian.
Thanks, man! I just started this as a fun project, so I only work on it occasionally, but check the bell and then you'll get a notification when I can get my ass up to upload a new video :-)))
You have new subscriber from Egypt, I love learning new languages. Beside Arabic I speaks Russian and English, but I'm in love with German language. Thank you for the information. It's the first time for me to comment on a vedio. But your good in what you do . Save this comment because you'll have 100,000 subscribers soon and maybe Lee's than 2 year 1 million subscriber 😃 . Good luck in that !
That is so sweet of you to say. I'm surprised by the growth of this channel. Just started it as a fun project... Love Egypt and want to visit it too one day. My languages are French, Swedish, Farao and I'm learning Turkish now. I wanted to learn Arabic but I find it so hard. Russian I had in uni but I also wasn't good at it... The pronunciation is the most difficult part. Just like Chinese. My respect! Wish ,out the best of luck and success with it :-)
“Great video, you deliver the information in a very Germanic way, very straight to the point, but sometimes it seems a bit pretentious to say that all Germans have a level of English similar to yours, or to make a statement that it will take someone 8 years to learn. Apart from these points, everything else is quite accurate.”
Did I say that? I thought I said most. People speak English quite well, and 8 years is realistic for accent free German, most actually never achieve it.
Interesting video :) My 2 cents: I know people who passed B2 in German after 6 months of studying full-time and then went on to pass the medical C1 exam another 6 months later. I took a six-month full-time Business English class after I had been studying English for 15 years. At the end of the course, everyone had to take an exam based on our teachers´ recommendations, and I was the only one in my class who managed to pass...C1. What I'm trying to say is: -when you look at how much time (study hours) people need to learn German and English, the difference in difficulty might be smaller than most people think. -if passing the B2 exam counts as "learning" German, you *can* do it in half a year. But yeah, like she said, "get to work.^^
Yes, good point! I would get a B2 in French too by the way, at a time when I was at A1 and also, I had forgotten everything I learned for the test after a week. It was funny. I think a lot of these exams are also not laid out to get you to conversation level. My channel is about that, I am not trying to prep people for DaF classes, but for communication in their workplace and life... However, the Europäische Referenzrahmen is a pretty good orientation imo, to see where you're at. But if you have the pressure of an exam, yes, full /as much as possible time and loads of books it is...
Superb video - you just gained a subscriber. These tips really help me plan where to focus my time and energy when studying German. It's a relief to know that I only have two verb tenses to learn. That almost makes up for the confusing word order rules...
Thank you 🤍 ☕ I mean, you can always up your game later, but the two most important ones are key. Also, if you do know a lot of verbs vocab wise, you'll be able to understand past and future forms quickly anyway!
You give off vibes like we've known each other since childhood, like that buddy who's always trying to enlighten you about stuff. I used to think people in different parts of the world would be totally different, but now I reckon it's more about the shades of our skins. Your homely vibes are on point, my friend! if I ever find myself in Germany, we're definitely meeting up!
Yo, that's cool! I'm definitely that person, I can't keep knowledge to myself 😆 can you imagine I have to stick to some NDAs I had to sign for work for 15 years 😭
Vielen Dank für dieses Video. Ich komme aus Amerika und ich mag deine Sprachstimme auf Englisch! Akzent! Wenn wir alle gleich reden, macht das keinen Spaß! Ich habe einen französischen Kajun-Akzent. Ich hoffe, dass Sie mich gut verstehen können. Hoffentlich hört eines Tages jemand mein Deutsch, das ich gelernt habe!
Ja, verstehe dich gut :D LIest sich schon sehr gut. Das ist immer das Coolste, wenn man dann wirklich mal mit jemandem sprechen kann. Ich freue mich auch immer, wenn ich meine Sprachen verwenden kann (auch für RU-vid). Danke dir! :))
i love immersing myself in the language and just going with the flow acting as if I can speak fuently even though i just started lmao it makes the process fun
haha, i don't do that anymore actually, cause i am just too annoyed with myself when i do... but i listen to podcasts and imagine i can understand what they say lol... telling myself understanding at least some of it would help (maybe it does, who knows...)
I'm working on it. I filmed a lot of videos but I was busy with life, work, my main channel etc... So I kinda just never found the time to maintain this one :( But I do have the material and I can make more! The plan is definitely to continue doing that _eventually_ :)
@Learn German or cry trying I completely understand what you are saying about life! I wonder if I have enough life to actually learn German! 🤔 I have sure been crying trying! 😢 I will look forward to you posting whenever you do. I wish you well!
@@keplerts What's your native language? It can make it a lot easier e.g. if you speak English originally and a bit harder if you're Chinese... In general, I think that Babbel and PONS resources are very motivating. I am currently about to finish my Swedish course using the app and all I do is practice 10-20 min per day on the bus. But that's time I can't spend doom-scrolling on TikTok hehe
@Learn German or cry trying I speak English natively. I have tried about all the language apps and other "programs or methods ". Never heard of Pons. Currently I am using Busuu, Pimsleur, and Learn-German-Easily. I all, I probably spend 90 minutes a day on it. No way I will speak super well in a year!
90 min per day and no results?! OMFG... Dude, you should be at B2 level by that pace in 1 year. I am using the Babbel app to learn Swedish. Currently, I am about to finish A2 level and I have only been using it 2× a week. I would've for sure finished B2 by now, had I used it for 20 min per day. I can recommend the app really, it is not externally motivating like Duolingo, but it is surely a good app and because it is made in Germany, the German program is one of the best, I'd say. The PONS books are only for German learners, but let me look if I find English ones... Oh, look, here is one: www.amazon.com/PONS-gro%C3%9Fe-Sprachkurs-Deutsch-Fremdsprache/dp/3125623758/ So, I would recommend you use one app only (either Babbel, Duolingo or Mondly, in that order - Mondly has a good system but is more difficult, better for people who are at a safe A2 level already and want a strategic repetition) and one book. The reason I use a book too is because I can use it in my bed before I go to sleep. That's very relaxing and usually I just tell myself: Can I read one more page today? And the answer is always yes. So I do one page in Swedish and one in Chinese the other night. I really think you can do it. Maybe you should track it. For tracking I use an app called Boosted. It has a nice calendar view and shows you how much you did overall in hours. I find it very motivating!
Thanks a lot! The French one? It's from a publisher called Langenscheidt. They make these for all languages I think. → www.langenscheidt.com/shop/ (I'm not associates with them, but I really like their grammar books and tools. PONS is another good one, and if you know you have enough motivation, I recommend using Babbel for 6 months and you'll be at B1-B2 level)
I like how you started the video. I found it funny 😆 Yes, I'm a weirdo. Yes, I want to learn German as fast as I can at minimum B2 but I don't believe that I can achieve that in 6 months as a beginner. Thank you for your tips, I saved your video to my German Learning playlist. Edit: By the way, I like your channel name. I suspect I might cry at some point the way I cried when I was learning the pronunciation of the Dutch letter "G." 🤣
Hahaha 😁 the chhhhhhh oh yes... 🙈 I feel that. It's okay to cry a bit. Just tell everyone afterwards how you did it in 2 months and it was nothing, so they will cry too. Getting from A2 to B2 is the hardest. After B2 anything goes. Just keep that in mind, it's very rewarding and German is logical and intuitive once you get a hang of it... Unlike e.g. fucking Suomi. That language is killing me 😭
Great video! I plan to learn German in the future on my channel. I actually just made a video about realistic stuff when it comes to learning a language.
"Sit on your ass and get to work" is really funny, because Americans have a saying, "get off your ass and get to work" But what you're saying actually makes sense because you sit down and learn. 😂
Guten Morgen, One most things I realised that German pronunciation .If you try to write you can but iF you try to listen and pronounce you can't like a horrific sound but the way you have explained I adore it. Would you please make a video on pronunciation topic.Tschü
Yes, I will in fact do sound forming videos on the whole alphabet. Just give me some time! Listening comprehension is the hardest. While listening to radio shows and podcasts doesn't give you much vocabulary it will help with being able to identify phonemes. So give it a try. As soon as you are at A2 or higher, it's worth it in my opinion.
9:10 That is absolutely not true, maybe in northern parts of Germany, but I was all actoss Baden-Wüerttemberg and Bayern, maybe around 2 out of 10 people speak English, even if you go to Rathaus or the Bank
German english literacy is ranked 8/34 in Europe. But a lot of Germans think their English sucks and they play dumb. Also elderly Germans don't speak English at all, which is why those stats are a bit off. Young people speak English quite well. It's a mandatory subject for all grades.
The philosophical question is: Do people inherit discipline or not? Is "being naturally disciplined" a trait or something you can learn? Cause I tend to think it is more genetics than socialization, although of course you can ruin everything with a bad enough environment... I find this quite interesting, especially since I am an extremely lazy language learner. No success = immediate and total frustration...
Hey, aber wenn du schon Deutsch kannst, dann kannst du das ganze Wissen auf die nächste verwandte Sprache anwenden und bist schneller fertig! Niederländisch und Schwedisch sind da zB echt geschenkt!
I dare you to learn Brazilian Portuguese. (Trick: it's most easy to learn Brazilian Portuguese than European Portuguese because brazilian Portuguese is syllable-timed, but European Portuguese is stressed-timed)
@@lahcineaitaissa2756 Ah okay! I have no idea... I don't watch a lot of videos myself, no time :-) But thanks for putting me on your list of resources ^^:)
Ich wünschte ich hätte Zeit dafür. Leider nicht möglich! Der Kommentar ist nun schon eine Weile her. Ich war ziemlich inaktiv. Aber ich hoffe, du hast gute Lernmöglichkeiten gefunden in der Zwischenzeit!
@@achmadiid8644 Kannst du Niederländisch? Das könnte beim Deutschlernen helfen. Ich habe gelesen, manche Leute sprechen es noch in Indonesien wegen der Kolonialzeit (?). Deutsch ist schwer, aber Russisch, Finnisch, Chinesisch und deine Sprache sind schwerer 😅 Schaffst du!.
И тебе спасибо! I don't speak Russian (?) but Google Translate does. So I hope it interpreted this right and I wish you a happy language learning journey! :-)
Loads of them! - Jalousie - Abonnement - Atelier - Bagage - Barrikaden - Eau de Toilette (Toilette itself) - peu à peu - Promenade - Sauciere ... List goes on :D
Thank you for commenting! Appreciate it :-) German Grammar is difficult. But focusing on too much detail to early is confusing and keeps you from getting to know important words and phrases
This was probably the best primer I’ve ever seen for language learning. Because 60% of English is French and 40% is Germanic, lots of fancy English vocabulary is also French. The ability to play with words and make up your own concepts is extremely important in any language and at the very least people will be curious what you mean and you have a conversation starter. Swallowing the endings will not only make you sound natural, but it can be a crutch until you learn all of the different declension endings. Alternatively, to be extra pretentious, you can annunciate the endings and make sure you use the genitive case instead of switching it out for the dative case like everybody else. With her lovely sense of humor, I wish she would’ve joked around about subjunctive one and subjunctive two because I know it would’ve been hysterical. And for the inverse, for the Germans, just have good English grammar, and don’t worry about the accent at all because German accents are always attractive and having good grammar helps communicate you really know the language and that the accent is a choice which by extension makes you even more attractive for no extra effort.
Hahaha :) I would never not swallow the endings, unless I live in Stralsund maybe :D It sounds so weird to me. But if you do, yes it could sound suuuper pretentious. People get triggered over this kind of stuff too. German accents are attractive? Are you for real? I feel like everyone is always appalled by them, like "Oh no, not the Nazi accent again XD" I sometimes wonder if I could learn Spanish by the way, but then I'm like nah... what for, too warm anyway... maybe I will make use of all the leanwords and take up Dutch or Danish though... they seem fairly straight forward after Swedish/Norwegian.
Thank you so much for this. This really helped me with motivation ❤ This is honestly way more useful than any other video about tips I've seen so far. Subscribed!!!
Thank you so much! I'm just returning to uploading to this channel and happy to catch up on the comments. :)) Wish you all the best with your language journey!
Thank you for the hope 😂 I completed B2 level but I forgot few things and I make structure mistakes. I have two questions how to avoid over learning like summarizing and writing that can turn to be counterproductive. The second question is what to read to get the feeling of the common words the Germans use since you surprised me when I found out that no one uses future that often and I am using it quite often in my emails in my company
I made a video cause I thought that would be easier to answer your comment. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CVOIBU9OUoI.html Hope this helps! If you have more questions, please let me know.
@@LearnGermanorcrytrying wow thank you for creating a video to discuss those questions. This is the first time someone posts a video response to my comment. Thank you. I will also post under that video.
Honestly I'm always surprised at how many people want to learn German. Like - why? Do you want to understand Rammstein or give your german shepard the correkt comands? Anyways, I'm learning danish XD Ich bin immer wieder überrascht darüber, dass Leute Deutsch lernen wollen. Einfach - warum? Wollt ihr Rammstein verstehen oder eurem Schäferhund die richtigen Kommandos geben? Achso und ich lerne übrigens Dänisch XD
Me too... idk why anyone would want to put up with it... I just kinda fell into making language videos on TikTok, because they were suggested to me and I kept thinking, "well this is BS"... now I am part of the cringe, I guess XD I can read Danish and Dutch now thanks to Swedish, but it is so hard to understand...
What a great explanation! Thank you. However, could you please tell me how I should work in my case! My goal with German is to speak with my friends, watch docus, listen to music, read, smth like for every day comfortable living. However, I also have an opportunity to apply for the job with A2-B1 certificate. And I was so excited about it, I like Einstein and Rammstein, and that's why I started the most, but this mini bonus I kept in mind. My studying was comfortable and smooth, but yesterday I flipped through the A1 exam and I am so frustrated now, because in A1 level I will have to know all articles and fill in the gaps correctly. It really hit me so much. Because I understand through learning English myself, that to get smth takes time, and one day you think, wow, I get it naturally! That's why I hoped that in A1 level I only will have to demonstrate my writing and speaking and reading abilities, but here suddenly this situation with articles. What should I do now?
I'm sorry, I just saw your comment now, I was pretty inactive here, but I'll share my answer cause maybe it'll help others too. In your case I'd do as you're told, if you need that exam, and try to memorize the articles with tricks. Personally, I think the best solution to learning German is not focus too much on perfection with cases, conjugation and articles (cause it is a lot at once) and learn it "on the go" by listening to the language a lot. But that's not a good option here. The best way is to learn the articles together with the words they belong to, so you remember the sounds. And then you should use these words in example sentences and memorize them, but keep the structure in mind. Aka keep in mind what kind of sentence that is (so you will find the right case with a different example). We learned French like this in school and it totally worked but it was very annoying. I am not good at studying vocabulary, so I have completely stopped learning languages like this. I learn all languages by looking at complete sentences and examples, where the words are used with context. You can however just learn the article tables, verb tables and other grammar tables by heart. Your brain will not access it as easily as if you had learned it organically, but eventually you will be able to switch to organic language learning. I hope this helps in any way even though my reply is pretty late! Best of luck with everything!
Hallo! Is Turkish accent involved in Asian accents that are hard to understand? It originated in the Eurasian borderlines but I guess you are familiar with it since there are quite a few of us in Germany :D
No, I wouldn't say. I should've clarified I meant central Asian accents. Rolling R accents that aren't too melodic are easier to understand for Germans. Russian, Greek, Turkish, Polish... But Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Philippines etc. are more difficult because they are so soft. Same goes for American English btw. But since Germans are used to it we can make out what they are saying. However, I think that Asian people are more discriminated against and people just assume they're not good at German even though it's just the accent. The more tonal variety a language has the better. Easiest for us to understand will be Swedish, French, and the first named
@@Daniel_dergott. No, he made his his job to write really complicated texts I guess. Nietzsche is very hard to read. But if you like something simpler, Schopenhauer is much more straight forward.
Hi, your video really helps me! However, I think you should be more conscious about talking Asia as a whole. there are around 2300 different languages there. it’s not only about East Asian students you met :-(
Yeah, I'm aware but I really think that most from think of central Asia and it takes a lot of time to put all that niece in a video... So I'm expecting my viewers to assume the best I guess 😅
Always good to see it as a challenge :D I have given up tbh. I think, just neurologically, the age to learn a language accent-free with normal effort is around 12. After that, it gets a lot harder... At least that is what the neurologist told us in the lecture, but I forgot why XD
I get that, German is difficult. The two good things are how close it is to English and French, and how it most of the time sounds like it is written... but other than that it is difficult, and you need to put in at least 10 min per day to see progress.
I actually feel like this is really true and this channel will eventually be like a library of a few things and then just be complete. Like there is not that much to learn about languages in general. You learn it, you do it, you gradually get to B2, you watch shows, done.
If you come visit, go to Franken! So many small breweries there and delicious craft beers (not the weird hipster stuff from the supermarket everyone already knows about, the good stuff)
Hi! I'm from Chile, and I started learning German for a while, but I'm just starting to start more seriously. I love learning languages, and I wanted to start with this one. Even tough, I'm not even able to say normal phrases yet lol, I realized this is the most difficult language I've learned so far. I wanted to say that I loved your honesty about different aspects of the language that don't care too much. I'll keep up with your other videos, and I'll try to learn as much as I can. The thing that scares me the most about the language is the looooong words it has! Greetings! And be sure that you'll see my comments again in other videos, lol. Bye!
What other ones did you learn? The long words are just concatenations. You will get used to it. Turkish is way harder in that aspect than German :/ Tried it, sucked at it, gave up.
@@LearnGermanorcrytrying I'm Turkish, not born and raised in Germany, living in Germany for more than one year. I don't think that Turkish has longer words than German and I assume pronunciation must be easier for German native speakers because of some letters like ö, ü, ğ, which is almost the same sound as German R. I would like to hear from your perspective.
@@LearnGermanorcrytrying Not sure if Finnish is similar to Hungarian, but Hungarian is difficult for sure. For example, to use word From, like expressing I am from or I am coming from or get this thing from , it has 3 words with 2 variations for each(short and long). Now with this, you need to use either of ból/ből, tól/től, ról/ről. And thanks for the wish for learning Hungarian, same wish for you for Finnish. Plus as per my experience, the core tip is consistency. Slow and steady wins the race. So learn a little every day(preferably context based learning - it helps in learning and retaining it too).
That's how RU-vid works. People are looking for this kind of stuff. And I think it's better if then they find videos like this, to understand that it's most likely not doable, but also what methods to use to get there as fast as possible.
