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 Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:54 pm
I know how you feel there. Actually it would do me well to teach those very foreigners the English myself. 3nodding So I guess If I fail to become a German teacher to English speakers, I can at least become an English teacher to German speakers.
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:47 am
I'm thinking about doing AS level German next year, but because I haven't done GCSE and it would be a new subject, I don't really know at what level I would be working or what sort of thing I'd be learning. I was wondering if anybody around in the German GD has taken it?
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:38 am
Hallo! Wie geht es jedem? (did i say that right?)
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:05 am
Slippy_Pollett Hallo! Wie geht es jedem? (did i say that right?) Ja, richtig! Mir geht's gut, danke. Und dir?
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:39 am
Auch gut danke, aber sehr muede. ;_;
Mein Computer war Krank.
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:49 pm
Hallo biggrin
I'm just starting my second year of German, it's a bit intimidating since the first year program I had was totally based on functional proficiency and they made a point of not teaching us grammer sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:03 pm
Chikiya Slippy_Pollett Hallo! Wie geht es jedem? (did i say that right?) Ja, richtig! Mir geht's gut, danke. Und dir? Es geht mir fremd. Seriously, weird things are happening to me lately. eek
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:20 am
Pixilated Hallo biggrin I'm just starting my second year of German, it's a bit intimidating since the first year program I had was totally based on functional proficiency and they made a point of not teaching us grammer sweatdrop That's not very cool, we were taught grammar and sentance structure from the word 'go'. I think that's because our teacher has been teaching for a while, and she told us that for Germans to understand non-native speakers, the best thing they can do is to get the word order right. If you know words but can't string them together, then there's just no understanding at all.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:14 am
WellzY Pixilated Hallo biggrin I'm just starting my second year of German, it's a bit intimidating since the first year program I had was totally based on functional proficiency and they made a point of not teaching us grammer sweatdrop That's not very cool, we were taught grammar and sentance structure from the word 'go'. I think that's because our teacher has been teaching for a while, and she told us that for Germans to understand non-native speakers, the best thing they can do is to get the word order right. If you know words but can't string them together, then there's just no understanding at all. Well, I know basically how to put the words together, just not the rules for why it's done that way. Fortunatly I have an understanding teacher this year mrgreen
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:58 pm
Slippy_Pollett Seriously, weird things are happening to me lately. eek Do these weird things by any chance have to do with Kasen? stare Weird things always happen around that 'tard.
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:28 am
Pixilated WellzY Pixilated Hallo biggrin I'm just starting my second year of German, it's a bit intimidating since the first year program I had was totally based on functional proficiency and they made a point of not teaching us grammer sweatdrop That's not very cool, we were taught grammar and sentance structure from the word 'go'. I think that's because our teacher has been teaching for a while, and she told us that for Germans to understand non-native speakers, the best thing they can do is to get the word order right. If you know words but can't string them together, then there's just no understanding at all. Well, I know basically how to put the words together, just not the rules for why it's done that way. Fortunatly I have an understanding teacher this year mrgreen There is never a 'why' to grammar usually, it just is. At least, I think so. I mean, why do we use inversion in English to change a sentence into a question? It's not necessary, and it's certainly not how it's done in every other language.
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:05 am
WellzY Pixilated Well, I know basically how to put the words together, just not the rules for why it's done that way. Fortunatly I have an understanding teacher this year mrgreen There is never a 'why' to grammar usually, it just is. At least, I think so. I mean, why do we use inversion in English to change a sentence into a question? It's not necessary, and it's certainly not how it's done in every other language. The grammar is the why. You do it because there's a grammar rule. IMO it's much more important to know when to use mich and mir than to know which is accusative and which is dative. The former would be functional proficiency and the latter would be grammar. We all spoke our native language effectively before being told what a noun or a verb was. I actually think it is very cool that she learned a year without explicitly being taught grammar.
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:46 pm
adabyron WellzY Pixilated Well, I know basically how to put the words together, just not the rules for why it's done that way. Fortunatly I have an understanding teacher this year mrgreen There is never a 'why' to grammar usually, it just is. At least, I think so. I mean, why do we use inversion in English to change a sentence into a question? It's not necessary, and it's certainly not how it's done in every other language. The grammar is the why. You do it because there's a grammar rule. IMO it's much more important to know when to use mich and mir than to know which is accusative and which is dative. The former would be functional proficiency and the latter would be grammar. We all spoke our native language effectively before being told what a noun or a verb was. I actually think it is very cool that she learned a year without explicitly being taught grammar. Well it's different for everyone. We had a whole semester without knowing what Akkusativ and Dativ were, that was a second semester thing. Either way, I think it can be a little difficult to pick up as a second langauge, and if you're starting from an older age, and you aren't completely commiting yourself to the language, waiting to learn intuitivly when to use mich and mir might not be practical.
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:49 pm
I was wondering if anyone on here would proofread a letter for me. I'm in the middle of my 3rd semester of German, and I'm sure there are tons of mistakes I've missed. If anyone could help, could you please IM me, thanks. Its for my great aunt.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:52 pm
Slippy_Pollett Chikiya Slippy_Pollett Hallo! Wie geht es jedem? (did i say that right?) Ja, richtig! Mir geht's gut, danke. Und dir? Es geht mir fremd. Seriously, weird things are happening to me lately. eek What's happening to you? Femdgehen in German actually means to cheat on somebody (=to have an affair!) biggrin
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