immortal_yoh
Gut, danke, und dir?
ohh thanks, I'm awful speaking German, but I'm making the try xD
I hope to talk like a real German one day
I know you both know a lot of German, I can feel it, I started with this just last week
ohhh any clue about the grammar? it's the hardest that I've seen in my life!!
Our German teacher was a really fun guy. He made the grammar really easy somehow. We had a bunch of little songs and stuff to remember the articles and possessives, and we remembered all the cases via superheroes. (Ah, the adventures of Kid Nominative and Accusative Man, and their days throwing verb footballs into Verb Hell, where verbs never
ever return from. Except for once when one did.) It's not so hard if you can figure out what all the stuff is in English; most of the rules are the same, and German just has more conjugations. You've gotta write all those down and keep a handy dandy Verb Bible like we did. (See, I remember all sorts of fun things ABOUT German...just not how to speak it. XDD)
One thing that helps is when your language teacher
shows you how a grammar point is used instead of
telling you about it. My second German/Japanese teacher was a 'tell'er, and my first German teacher and my first Japanese teachers were 'show'ers. (For example, I don't know what the heck a 'gerund' is, but if you show me that it's an -ing verb, then I understand, since I use -ing verbs every day. If you show us what it
does, then we learn faster...especially since they really have stopped doing serious English grammar lessons in schools.
gonk )
