Anyone else here having success following the official Memrise A1/A2 courses? What other resources are you using?
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@theneongreen German is an awfully tough language for me and I’m doing it slow, repeating often and spending little time. I still have problems remembering die/das/der, which is masculine/feminine/neutral… Having said that, I know I’m not making a great effort. My greatest effort is on Italian, then Indonesian (3 courses) and the Memrise French.
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@ChiewPang I am trying to teach my boyfriend German at the moment and it is really not easy since he asks many questions that I can’t even answer without looking it up online.
German grammar seems almost imposible to learn for somebody who didn’t grew up with the language, but I don’t want to discourage those who are trying it ^^
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I’m working on German as well using the A1/A2 courses. I’ve completed A2 and am now working through A2, somewhere in the first quarter of the course.
Yes, the grammar can be confusing, but I suspect that by consuming a lot of German can help get it drilled into our heads. By consuming, I mean doing a lot of reading, watching TV shows & movies, listening to radio or podcasts, and so on.
Well, for me those “official” courses didn’t work out. It’s great for total beginners, however, I wanted to add more spice to my highschool classes of German. That’s why I took on courses such as 5000 German words. It’s nice to drill words on Memrise and see a word you just learned in your textbook (or even better - use that word when answering to question), but I don’t feel like Memrise alone is good source for learning anything at all. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel that learning is a lot easier when you take on a book or something, try to read a chapter or a page (depending on your fluency) and then make a course out of the unknown words. It’s a lot more time consuming, if you want to scope through a few words fast, however, I find it that you get a lot better results from doing more work. That said, you can always make some kind of macro to accompany your struggle with finding correct translations for words 
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Ich nehme gerade den Kurs “A2 - Beyond Beginner”.
Als Jan (der Erfinder) da war, war es wahrscheinlich der beste Kurs auf Memrise.
Ohne ihn ist es schwierig zu bestätigen ob alternative Anworten richtig sind.
Ich hoffe dass er bald zurückkommt…
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I still have problems remembering die/das/der, which is masculine/feminine/neutral…[/quote]
Not sure if this will help, but have a method I find personally useful. For each gender, think of a verb or other event. Then each time you have to learn a new word, have the word go through the action you selected for the associated gender.
For example, I use the following:
der - Fire, Combustion
die - Ice, Freezing
das - growth (as in plants)
So der Mann is the torch, die Frau is the snow queen, and das Auto is a very green vehicle.
It takes a bit of imagination and time, but I think it makes it a lot easier to recall since you are building connections with concrete concepts (e.g. man + fire) rather than abstract categories (e.g. man + masculine grammatical category).
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Yea, I try to do that but still find it difficult. I suppose 1) I’m not dedicating it much time nor effort and 2) I don’t really like the sound of the language…
Motivation is primordial in learning a language…
Agreed, if you don’t love the language (or have an intense passion for repetitive learning) then it ramps up the difficulty.
That will very likely change as you become more advanced. Its strangeness will melt away and you will begin to focus on the message and not how it sounds. And you perhaps will come to like how the language tickles your ears when it comes out of the mouths of certain people.
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Hi ChiewPang,
Why are you learning deutsch?
Do you need it for your job? I just want to know.
What is it, that you don’t like. German has so many sounds. I just want to know. I am German and I really don’t like some dialects. I even can’t understand the Bavarians. I like the way Jogi Löw speaks! 
Strangely, I quite feel the opposite. I love the guttural sound of this language. And also the mental gymnastics of placing the verb at the end in some cases.
German was my first foreign language in french secondary school. I now learn it for work mostly but I really enjoy going back to it after many years in England.
I’m learning a lot. Having German friends who are willing to help is a big plus.
There’s a channel on YouTube called Learn German with Ania. It helps me a lot as well.
I’ve decided to be greedy and i’m reading at least some sentences from Nietzsche in German every day. I’m not gonna understand much, but i’ll be in direct contact with the language.
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Hi I am new kids on the block for Deutsch 
I like learning new languages even though I am not very good and fast learner 
I am working on A1 now almost completedç By comparison with English , German hard to learn but I believe , German pronunciation easier than English pronunciation as sound for Turkish people like me .
I wonder is there any way to know when ein eine einen OR einem should be used before adjective ?
I belive most of the adjective ends with “e” uses eine and “en” uses einen , is it right approach or I am totaly wrong ?
Re: ein, eine, einen, einem, eines
The quick answer is that it depends on the case and the gender of the noun.
Here’s one resource that might help you get started: About German Cases
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In nominative feminine is -e, in accusative masculin takes -en instead -er, feminine stays -e, in dative masculine and neutral takes -em, feminine -er, plural -n, genitive masc+neut -es, fem-plur -er.
But it’s a little more complicated than that…
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Inflection of German adjectives - explanation and examples/Memrise Course http://www.memrise.com/course/16768/german-case-2/