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 Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:03 pm
Dative and accusative? They're not so hard once you a) memorize the endings and b) recognize where each should be used (although b is easier said than done).
The things I have trouble with the most in German are plurals (which there are... what, six or so different forms of?) and words that have irregular case endings (like Herzen is dative of Herz, etc.).
On a side note, I rented the Oxford German-English dictionary from my college library... it's pretty freakin' sweet. Unfortunately, though, I gotta give it back soon, and I won't have access to it 'til next semester. sad And I was sort of hoping to gank a bunch of vocab from the thing.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:47 pm
I have the Berlitz German books. Though one says pen is Die Feder and the other says it's Der Kugelschreiber and i'm not sure which one is right. How would you pronounce Kugelschreiber, cause I tried it and it didn't sound right to me.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 4:56 pm
T A T U_TV I have the Berlitz German books. Though one says pen is Die Feder and the other says it's Der Kugelschreiber and i'm not sure which one is right. How would you pronounce Kugelschreiber, cause I tried it and it didn't sound right to me. 'Feder' also means 'quill', whereas 'Kugelschreiber' means 'biro' or 'ballpen'. If you want to use a more general term for a pen, use 'Stift', it can apply to all types of pens but 'Kugelschreiber' is very commonly used, and often abbreviated to 'Kuli'. A great online German dictionary you can use for pronounciation and anything else you need to look up, is www.dict.leo.org, if you haven't already come across it, they have a pronounciation button next to every word.
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:55 am
xd biggrin Hallo mein Name ist Kameron. Ich wohne in der phillipines und ich lernte Deutsch als ich 6. Es ist ein Spaß, obwohl manchmal im kann ein sehr mürrisch Sprache. Aber ich mag es. Ich weiß, derzeit 12 Sprachen sowie Russisch. Obwohl ich nicht viel reisen. Ich bin nach wie vor wie die launguages anderer Kulturen. biggrin xd
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:03 pm
cool_azian_dude xd biggrin Hallo mein Name ist Kameron. Ich wohne in der phillipines und ich lernte Deutsch als ich 6. Es ist ein Spaß, obwohl manchmal im kann ein sehr mürrisch Sprache. Aber ich mag es. Ich weiß, derzeit 12 Sprachen sowie Russisch. Obwohl ich nicht viel reisen. Ich bin nach wie vor wie die launguages anderer Kulturen. biggrin xd Wow. Learning German at the age of 6. The only thing I was learning back then was forced Spanish. eek Do you like living in the phillipines? I can't understand the rest, but if the first 2 statements are understandable then i'm learning something. xd I'm teaching myself this, and my friend wants to too, but can't stop being lazy to even start. confused
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:33 am
Ich bin Lisa Marie. Ich war gut im Deutche aber nicht jetzt.
I lost so much of it. Any suggestions on how to get it back. I was in German for two years. I became a foreign exchange student there for a month. After that I wasnt in German class so I lost it. Er and I hope to go back next June. I need to catch back up.
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:00 am
Joss-Box Ich bin Lisa Marie. Ich war gut im Deutche aber nicht jetzt. I lost so much of it. Any suggestions on how to get it back. I was in German for two years. I became a foreign exchange student there for a month. After that I wasnt in German class so I lost it. Er and I hope to go back next June. I need to catch back up. Read books and magazines in German. Watch German movies. Visit German language websites. Review some older German lessons try to think more in German. I hoped this helped you.
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:11 am
Hey, I've got a bit of an unusual question.
I'm working on a fantasy novel, and I want one of my characters to call out his attack name in German (for various reasons, one of which is that it would sound lame in English), so I ran it through Babelfish to try and find a good name. However, since this is going to be read by (hopefully) many, many people, some of which might actually speak German, I'd like to double-check and make sure it's a proper translation.
The phrase I got is "Eisigermond Reißzahn"
It should translate roughly to "Icy Moon Fang" (if you watch anime, that's probably all you need to figure out what it looks like).
I'm not sure how much the details would affect the grammar (I only know a few basic german words), so just to clarify; it's basically a crescent-shaped icy energy wave type thingy, so I don't know if you'd have to add in some special tense to indicate "a fang of ice" or "crescent-shaped" or something like that.
ninja
The "moon" and "fang" part are in there mostly because the character is wolf-themed; his name is Ulric (derived from "Wulfric"), he lives in a country called Fenris, and he uses a halberd named Gleipnir. But yeah, basically its just your basic blade wave attack with ice element added.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Any alternate words that might sound better would help too, perhaps something shorter sweatdrop .
Oh, btw, ß can be written as "ss" right?
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:03 pm
Chameleon X Hey, I've got a bit of an unusual question.
I'm working on a fantasy novel, and I want one of my characters to call out his attack name in German (for various reasons, one of which is that it would sound lame in English), so I ran it through Babelfish to try and find a good name. However, since this is going to be read by (hopefully) many, many people, some of which might actually speak German, I'd like to double-check and make sure it's a proper translation.
The phrase I got is "Eisigermond Reißzahn"
It should translate roughly to "Icy Moon Fang" (if you watch anime, that's probably all you need to figure out what it looks like).
I'm not sure how much the details would affect the grammar (I only know a few basic german words), so just to clarify; it's basically a crescent-shaped icy energy wave type thingy, so I don't know if you'd have to add in some special tense to indicate "a fang of ice" or "crescent-shaped" or something like that.
ninja
The "moon" and "fang" part are in there mostly because the character is wolf-themed; his name is Ulric (derived from "Wulfric"), he lives in a country called Fenris, and he uses a halberd named Gleipnir. But yeah, basically its just your basic blade wave attack with ice element added.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Any alternate words that might sound better would help too, perhaps something shorter sweatdrop .
Oh, btw, ß can be written as "ss" right?
Yes, ß can be written as "ss."
"der eisig Mond Fang(zahn)" is what I got from looking it up in the dictionary but, I will ask Chikiya, or another native about it because I'm a beginner myself though, I can pick out words even before I started studying it. ninja P.s. if you want to know what "Icy moon fang" is in Danish or Norwegian also let me know.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:01 pm
Koko.Dk Chameleon X Hey, I've got a bit of an unusual question.
I'm working on a fantasy novel, and I want one of my characters to call out his attack name in German (for various reasons, one of which is that it would sound lame in English), so I ran it through Babelfish to try and find a good name. However, since this is going to be read by (hopefully) many, many people, some of which might actually speak German, I'd like to double-check and make sure it's a proper translation.
The phrase I got is "Eisigermond Reißzahn"
It should translate roughly to "Icy Moon Fang" (if you watch anime, that's probably all you need to figure out what it looks like).
I'm not sure how much the details would affect the grammar (I only know a few basic german words), so just to clarify; it's basically a crescent-shaped icy energy wave type thingy, so I don't know if you'd have to add in some special tense to indicate "a fang of ice" or "crescent-shaped" or something like that.
ninja
The "moon" and "fang" part are in there mostly because the character is wolf-themed; his name is Ulric (derived from "Wulfric"), he lives in a country called Fenris, and he uses a halberd named Gleipnir. But yeah, basically its just your basic blade wave attack with ice element added.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Any alternate words that might sound better would help too, perhaps something shorter sweatdrop .
Oh, btw, ß can be written as "ss" right?
Yes, ß can be written as "ss."
"der eisig Mond Fang(zahn)" is what I got from looking it up in the dictionary but, I will ask Chikiya, or another native about it because I'm a beginner myself though, I can pick out words even before I started studying it. ninja P.s. if you want to know what "Icy moon fang" is in Danish or Norwegian also let me know.
As for german, I've never seriously studied it myself, but I can usually figure out the meaning of some words if they're cognates, and I know all the "der", "das", "van", "sie" stuff in between, so I can get the basic structure of the sentence okay, it's just the actual vocabulary... sweatdrop
Anyway, Norwegian might be good too, actually. Norway is in Scandinavia, right? That's where the Nordic people came from, if I remember correctly, so it might be closer to the old Norse words. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:30 pm
Chameleon X Koko.Dk Chameleon X Hey, I've got a bit of an unusual question.
I'm working on a fantasy novel, and I want one of my characters to call out his attack name in German (for various reasons, one of which is that it would sound lame in English), so I ran it through Babelfish to try and find a good name. However, since this is going to be read by (hopefully) many, many people, some of which might actually speak German, I'd like to double-check and make sure it's a proper translation.
The phrase I got is "Eisigermond Reißzahn"
It should translate roughly to "Icy Moon Fang" (if you watch anime, that's probably all you need to figure out what it looks like).
I'm not sure how much the details would affect the grammar (I only know a few basic german words), so just to clarify; it's basically a crescent-shaped icy energy wave type thingy, so I don't know if you'd have to add in some special tense to indicate "a fang of ice" or "crescent-shaped" or something like that.
ninja
The "moon" and "fang" part are in there mostly because the character is wolf-themed; his name is Ulric (derived from "Wulfric"), he lives in a country called Fenris, and he uses a halberd named Gleipnir. But yeah, basically its just your basic blade wave attack with ice element added.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Any alternate words that might sound better would help too, perhaps something shorter sweatdrop .
Oh, btw, ß can be written as "ss" right?
Yes, ß can be written as "ss."
"der eisig Mond Fang(zahn)" is what I got from looking it up in the dictionary but, I will ask Chikiya, or another native about it because I'm a beginner myself though, I can pick out words even before I started studying it. ninja P.s. if you want to know what "Icy moon fang" is in Danish or Norwegian also let me know.
As for german, I've never seriously studied it myself, but I can usually figure out the meaning of some words if they're cognates, and I know all the "der", "das", "van", "sie" stuff in between, so I can get the basic structure of the sentence okay, it's just the actual vocabulary... sweatdrop
Anyway, Norwegian might be good too, actually. Norway is in Scandinavia, right? That's where the Nordic people came from, if I remember correctly, so it might be closer to the old Norse words. 3nodding Yes, It is part of Scandinavia, yes but Icelandic is probably a bit more closer to Old Norse nowadays though.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:32 am
Better language materials require you to learn German according to this
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:40 pm
Hello everyone!
I desperately need help learning German. I've been learning since May/June 2007. I just can't get the hang of it at all! (I've actually had better luck in Finnish, and my boyfriend doesn't believe me.) So, please, please hep me if you can. Links for vocab, good online dictionaries, something to help with my pronunciation, help learning the cases, anything free basically.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:39 pm
Jazzy-Devine Hello everyone!
I desperately need help learning German. I've been learning since May/June 2007. I just can't get the hang of it at all! (I've actually had better luck in Finnish, and my boyfriend doesn't believe me.) So, please, please hep me if you can. Links for vocab, good online dictionaries, something to help with my pronunciation, help learning the cases, anything free basically. Look up on Youtube "Easy German lessons" and perhaps play Sandra Bullock's speech in german at the bambi awards on youtube too. Purchase the game "Where is Oscar Lake?" That game is such a fun way to learn german.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:45 pm
Koko.Dk Jazzy-Devine Hello everyone!
I desperately need help learning German. I've been learning since May/June 2007. I just can't get the hang of it at all! (I've actually had better luck in Finnish, and my boyfriend doesn't believe me.) So, please, please hep me if you can. Links for vocab, good online dictionaries, something to help with my pronunciation, help learning the cases, anything free basically. Look up on Youtube "Easy German lessons" and perhaps play Sandra Bullock's speech in german at the bambi awards on youtube too. Purchase the game "Where is Oscar Lake?" That game is such a fun way to learn german.
Ah, well, thanks! I think the easy German lessons on youtube might be a little bit too low level for me. But, I'll give it a try.
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