BEST ANALOGY EVER! "Sometimes they like the dative, sometimes they like the accusative. It depends, you know?". You made my day with that, woman. So crystal clear, hahahaha! Great video. Love you!
With languages, I just find it impossible to actively learn all the language-weirdnesses. Whenever it's "just because", i.e. whenever there are irregularities, I find I just can't get them to stick. I just have to see it and see it and see it again, hundreds of times, and it eventually sticks.
That's how we learn irregularities in English as well. I have heard very small children say, "Mommy, I eated my sandwich." You have to politely correct them and say, "No, I ATE the sandwich." Languages unfortunately are not just translations of each other. They reflect the mindset of a certain culture and people. I think we all feel the pain of learning the exceptions and weirdness of other languages.
@@frenchfan3368 very interesting, very young children of course don't make this mistake "i eated" and "daddy goed" after all they have (hopefully) never heard this said to them so where is it coming from? Well, one answer is that this is part of "internalising" the rules of the language. They are applying the "ed" rule inappropriately. This internalisation is essential in the mastery of any language.
@@timboleicester1 "Very young children don't make this mistake?" I've heard little kids (and even some adults) fail to use the correct irregular past participles on many occasions. Yes, little kids are internalizing the -ed rule subconsciously and haven't been taught differently. I agree wholeheartedly that "internalisation is essential in the mastery of any language." Well said!
@@frenchfan3368 Hello this is the article I was thinking of "Overregularization and Plurality "[O]ne of the first rules that English-speaking children apply is to add -s to form the plural. Overregularization leads many young children to talk about 'foots', 'tooths', 'sheeps', and 'mouses'. They may even put the -s on adjectives when the adjectives are acting as nouns, as in this dinner-table exchange between my 3-year-old and her father: Sarah: I want somes. Father: You want some what? Sarah: I want some mores. Father: Some more what? Sarah: I want some more chickens. Although technically wrong, overregularization is actually a sign of verbal sophistication: it shows that children are applying the rules. Indeed, as young children become more conscious of grammatical usages, they exhibit increasingly sophisticated misapplication of them. A child who at age 2 correctly says she 'broke' a glass may at age 4 say she 'braked' one and then at age 5 say she 'did braked' another."(Kathleen Stassen Berger, "The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence")"
You have to say it. Stop learning languages start talking with smb-it really helps (ja pier...olę, now I have 3 languages in my head aaaaaa seinem sprache verbessern aaaaaaa), doesn't matter it correct in grammar or not. First of all and most important thing is communication and creativity-rest must came with a time,that calls fluence, because while you'll be talking about smthng more and more likely remember more. You cannot understand all this rules, that is impossible and language is always moving, it is a living thing,always changing-all you have to do just open your mind and start talking. That is my opinion,it is not a school,if made a misgake people will help you find better grammatik form-but they will understand you. Use simple words you know to build sentences. Try to wear your thoughts in a different way by using only those words you've got learned.
i wonder if someone can suggest some things for me. i want to learn a new language but when i pick one up i tend to drop it not because of lack of commitment there just not the things i want to learn the things they give me are as if i am going to live there or i am a foreign student so the suggestions i get are this is how you say what classes are you taking in this german or what are your favorite things to do, or this how you say boy or girl. i don't care i am not making friends, that would be nice along the way but i am just traveling to enjoy and explore conversation wise i want know how to order food, how to ask for directions if i get lost, wheres the toilet, how to buy a ticket for trains, wheres the closes bus stop, finding my hotel, basic conversation is good too how are you and please and thank you but i need real world help not how to make friends, i'll be using a lot of formal pronouns since i dont know these people so i would like a guide with out informal speech. please and thank you for the help.
A video or book references would be great like I said I don’t need a 30min video in making friends I need a 30 min video or books on how not to insult people and survive in a foreign place so I don’t get arrested how to count money in would be helpful too real things
Adolph Hitler I cant drink I am on meds I don’t want to have a seizure in front of people I don’t know. and plus since it’s a disability I want to keep it hidden I don’t want you to send me you know where for being a derp
If you want to learn purely transactional language any tourist language book will do they are written with functional leaning in mind but I have to say that it would be very very hard not learn any language on that basis. Anja gives us insights into German culture and you can't learn the language without understanding the culture. If you learn some basic grammar you can manage in most situations. You never know what will be useful. I had to to tell the receptionist in the hotel that I had found some socks under the bed... you can't plan for that. But I knew unter dem Bett.
I can say, "Ich sitze auf dem Stuhl" but can I also say "Ich lerne Deutsch in der Küche"? Is there a difference between sitting somewhere (stationary) vs. doing something (active)? In English, we use simple verb for habitual actions to describe something we do regularly, for example "I ride my bike and swim" (in order to stay fit, I do this regularly). But we use the progressive for something we're doing right now, like "I am sitting in the kitchen studying German." How about in German? Danke Anja!
I am standing on the wall? I don't understand this example. Can you explained it? Afterall I am verry happy I found your canal. You have great abbielieties to find out most common problematic things in speaking foreign language and it is more easier wann du hast alles ganz eiweicher erklären zü wieder weil hast du mit beider sprachen sprist- does it makes any sense? :)
entweder du schreibst, ich setze mich auf den Stuhl (Sg.) oder ich setze mich auf die Stühle (Pl.). Es geht in deinem Fall um den Akkusativ. :) Vielleicht liest du ja meinen Kommentar
Could be better if you teach to other people than can't understand the englis cause' i'm Mexican and even than i learning english it's dificult for my self understand you, so I just mean my first lenguage is the spanish and i can learn better you if talk in spanish. Saludos.
hey there guys, is there a website where i can practice with german grammar? i was super excited to learn german and was learning around 20 or more words a week but once i stumbled across the grammar i got super confused. it seems like when i try to do mini exercises with the dative and accusative case but once in a while the sentence wont go with the flow when translated to german
Ich sitze auf dem Stuhl. Ich stehe vor dem Schlepptop. Ich liege an dem Zaun. Ich hocke neben dem Fernsehen. Ich bin in dem Schlafzimmer. Ich liege unter dem Auto. Ich stehe hinter dem Baum. Ich stehe zwischen den Leuten. Ich schwebe über dem Meer.
Anja guten Abend... Interessierst du griechisch zu lernen? wir kÖnnen via skype zB kommunizieren.....ich will mein deutsch verbessern und dich ein neue Sprache lernen.... wie findest du das?
Du bist in dem Schrank. Du bist im Schrank. Sie steht an der Wand. Er ist auf dem Koffer. Ich sitze auf dem Klo./ auf der Toilette Ihr steht hinter der Lampe. Wir bleiben in dem Auto. Sie versteckt in der Waschmaschine Er steht zwischen den Häusern. Ich sitzt auf dem Stuhl
Gestern war ich bei meinem Freund, aber jetzt liege ich im Bett. Ich werde in der Kueche gehen, weil ich Hunger habe. Meine Katze sitzt neben mir auf dem Fenster. Sie sitzt auf meinem Schreibtisch.
Thank you so much! Using “Wo” to determine when to use the dative instead of the accusative with these 9 words makes all the difference. Ich liege im Bett.
