Is there any reason why German 4, Level 11 - Sports feels like it is just a “throwaway” or half-completed lesson? All the other lessons feel like they are well thought out, this one is “just there”.
Genders absent on the nouns, nouns that appear they could be verbs (Boxen) and no examples of usage. I don’t know that this is 100% correct, but I have seen elsewhere… “Basketball spielen” = to play basketball.
I would also expect to see “der Ball” at a minimum, as I do not recall that being in the course previously. Some other sporting equipment, sports related nouns, etc.
Thanks for your feedback! Yes, this level admittedly seems a bit odd. However, sports are usually given without articles (and thus, genders are absent) in German. There are some example sentences in the subsequent level 12 using Badminton and “Basketball spielen”. “der Ball” is indeed missing unfortunately, but it is the same word in English and German, thus it should be quite straightforward. We are indeed aware of the shortcomings in our content and have been working hard to update it internally. We will soon release an updated course content, more info coming soon.
Best wishes,
Mario
der Ball would be a quick and simple addition to this course at the beginning of G4 that would go a long way… that is if hopefully learners have learned by now articles/genders carry over per the last word of combined/compound words in German.
ARGHHHHH !! WTF ich bin sehr mude! warum?
Why do you ask ‘Grandma’ ? When you mean grandmother?
Formal and informal is TOO important with languages.
Always if you put oma you want grossmutter if you put grossmutter you want oma !!
This is becoming tiresome with your site!!
I can understand that you are frustrated, but it would be more helpful to mention which course you are using and to also offer a solution, which you do, indirectly, I suppose …
die Oma - the grandma, the granny (informal)
die Großmutter - the grandmother (formal)
Any chance of making this change as suggested by me so that learners of this course (I am betting it is one of the German 1-7 courses) get less frustrated?
At the moment I am taking German 3 and A1 German having completed German 1 & 2
I also notice the ’ der Milchkaffe und der Caffe Latte’ problem …and yes you are right these little things are frustrating to new learners.
I have already stopped using Duolingo and Vocabulix because of these things.
I am grateful for the free knowledge I receive and understand I am just a ‘bit’ of information in a viral system.
So thank you very much for your human support.
Having done similar to you, going through A1 (A series) simultaneously with the G1-7 series, I can say it doubles up your “work load” while not providing much greater learning. The A series were the basis for the G-series, so no longer are supported for corrections (if needed), and Memrise currently has a updated series to replace the G-series in the works. If you want/need additional practice in an area of the G-series, you can likely find a “longer” section/level of the A-series to compliment it (you don’t have to go through every level starting at the beginning to unlock higher levels - such is the case with Duolingo).
If you don’t want to give up Duo entirely, there are also these two courses to “supplement” it…
also @stuart-patrick_mcfad thanks for your feedback. However, this is NOT any of our official Memrise German courses, since none of them contains the items “die Oma” or “der Opa”. They have already been noted as future additions, but we haven’t updated our courses yet. I have however changed the English translations for “Großmutter” and “Großvater” from “grandma” and “grandpa” to “grandmother” and “grandfather” to avoid any confusion. Hope this helps? Best wishes,
Mario
German 4 contains 3 grammar chats altogether, which are levels 2, 4, and 6. It has
13 levels in total, but these chats are not showing as numbers on the surface.
Sorry about the confusion!
Thanks. Now it’s clear. I guess something similar happens with German 5 (and most likely all the other levels), which show 20 levels with numbers up to 23. 3 levels must be grammar bots
because it is a “nominalisiertes Adjektiv”, that is it is an adjective which gave the noun “der Deutsche”; even as noun continues to behave like an adjective (imagine “Mann” always after it). Der Deutsche is not like other nationality nouns ending in -e, which are of “-n Deklination” (der Schwede, des Schweden, ein Schwede)
Thank you very much for your reply.
You make a lot of sense and I think I will just try higher courses.
If it is too much I can always drop down.
Best regards,
Patrick
