How to Learn German Fast (just copy my system)

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Hi , Y&#39;all ! <br>I wanted to start learn German and I started to use Duolingo.<br>Well... I use a app for my German grammar A1(that app is just for my country it&#39;s not a global app)<br>Even though it&#39;s not enough.<br>I don&#39;t really know what should I do so could you guys pls suggest me some kind of free apps and series( it doesn&#39;t matter it&#39;s a cartoon or something like that) for A1 level? 💕🌟💕

holy fucking shit, man, i promisse, im doing exchange in germany, i am here for 8 months.. The first book ive bought in german with expectations to read was also sprach Zarathusta, and i couldnt understand anything... And guess what im reading now... Schachnovelle....<br>holymoli

I’m a student currently learning German at the B2 level, and I also use German at my workplace as a working student. However, my current speaking level is closer to B1.<br><br>I can communicate fairly well in everyday situations, but I still struggle, especially in group conversations. I often feel hesitant to speak, and no matter how much I try, I end up staying quiet. My german colleagues are naturally very fast speakers and sometimes I understand what’s being said but can’t formulate a response fast enough, and other times the conversation goes completely over my head.<br><br>I would genuinely appreciate any advice on how to overcome this fear and become more confident when speaking in such situations.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ktQgcgDN74&amp;t=144">2:24</a> I actually had to check other videos on your channel because I couldn&#39;t believe that you claim you are C2 (what I think you are)<br>You literally said &quot;Nico is gone&quot; instead of &quot;Nicos Way&quot;<br>That is more of a beginner/intermediate mistake

I&#39;m a big fan of side-by-side reading (i.e. a book in your target language, next to a good english translation (or an english book with a good translation for your target language)). That way you can read complex books and learn complex language while still being able to comprehend it. Yes it can be a bit slow at first, but I find it to be quite good for picking up complex language (which tbh is the language I am most interested in). It&#39;s also quite fun trying to decipher what the text is saying. You can do vocab and grammar study on the side when you want (e.g. just whatever you happen to be thinking about in a given moment) and it helps decipher the text. You often find that the way they express something is completely different, but by comparing the two translations you can recognise it as an equivalent statement, which gives you a much clearer grounding in the &quot;language-as-it-is&quot; rather than the &quot;language-related-to-english&quot;.<br><br>AI is also good. Not the best, but AI does converge on consensus outcomes so it is good for getting a general feel and for writing (plus you can optimise it for your purposes). It should not be used in isolation though as it may well make mistakes (and simply not be perfectly aligned with your interests; yes you can align AI if you know what you&#39;re going for, but with learning anything you often don&#39;t know what output is aligned or not without some other source of knowledge, so it is important not to rely on it solely).<br><br>Also the point about mistakes is spot on. People seem to forget that they already speak a language! And most do not speak it perfectly! I would be comfortable asserting that my written english is better than 95-99% of native speakers (better is relative, but still, I would be confident in that). My spoken english is worse, partly because I don&#39;t often speak to people so have little time to practice (and it&#39;s also very messy since I get nervous around people and am not practiced in using my voice). Yet I still make mistakes, grammatical or otherwise (rarely with spelling as my spelling has always been exquisite). In fact I often don&#39;t consider them &quot;mistakes&quot;. Sometimes I deliberately fuck up the grammar because I think it sounds better. Lots of other people do this in fact. Further, as regards my method, I do not really care that much if I understand a word differently to the average native speaker, because the same is true of english. I have a tendency to get hyper-specific about the meanings of english words such that I often find myself having a very idiosyncratic understanding of a term. It can be annoying, but it is something I just accept. And if I accept it in english, why not accept it in another tongue also?<br><br>Anyway, one final point that I thought about last night. If you think about it languages don&#39;t actually exist. When you learn a language you are really not learning a new tongue, but expanding the tongue you already have. The process of language learning is actually no different to the process by which you learnt english. You learnt english to communicate with others, express yourself, articulate yourself, read books, etc. You learnt a set of associations and patterns between different sounds and symbols and certain senses (of physical or ideational correspondence) which you felt. Learning &quot;another language&quot; is in fact simply expanding the set of associations of which you are aware, it is no different to learning a new way of saying something in english, or learning a new word for something in english (something people are doing all the time btw (none of y&#39;all knew what &quot;rizz&quot; was 5 years ago)). All you are doing with learning a new language is directing this natural process and choosing which cluster of associations you want to focus on. There is no end point to it just as there is no end point to english. You simply stick at it and when you reach a personal goal or standard you consider yourself fluent (or &quot;capable&quot;). The idea you need to memorise lists of vocab or grammar structures is just kind of silly to me. Such things should be for REFERENCE. You can read them yes, but memorising them is a waste of time. You read them, then go do something else (comprehensible input, side-by-side, etc). Then while reading you will recognise something but not remember it. You can keep on reading or watching without it and hope to decipher its meaning from the context. Alternatively you could take note of it and then look it up later. But a focus on vocab or grammar alone can actually hold you back. E.g. in learning welsh I was reading a book and got stuck on this phrase &quot;yr hyn&quot;. I kept trying to figure out what it meant but it kept confusing me. But I knew what it meant based on context, and eventually after seeing it somewhere else I figured out &quot;what it was for&quot; without needing a perfect word-for-word translation. I think focusing on the meaning of words is actually counter-productive. Words in &quot;other languages&quot; do not signify a word in english no more than a word in english signifies a word in french. They signify senses and meanings independent of the symbol / sound. If you know the sense in which a word is used based on the context (which you understand based on how it relates to english), then it doesn&#39;t matter if you have no clue what that word is said to be directly equivalent to in english.<br><br>Anyway personal standard for fluency is when I feel comfortable expressing myself in that language (which in practice means I can speak well enough with most native folks, and also write an essay on political philosophy and think it was written as well as I would have done in english). I imagine I may take a test or something in the future, but that&#39;s what I aim towards.<br><br>Apologies for the long post. I need to work on an essay and I am putting it off a bit. TL;DR: good video on language learning, I would also add that language learning is really easy, people do it naturally every day with english, doing it with other languages is no different you are just directing the natural process of acquisition which you are already doing (e.g. &quot;rizz&quot; is a word most have learned that wasn&#39;t known 5 years ago). in a certain sense you can say there is no such thing as &quot;another language&quot; but really just one language with a set of associations which you use to understand others and express yourself, and by learning another you are merely extending the associations you recognise. Mistakes don&#39;t exist, there is only missing your goal. If your goal is to speak to others mistakes are fine if you are understood easily. English natives make mistakes all the time. Your personal standard is what matters. Half the languages I learn I won&#39;t be able to speak very well, but that&#39;s fine because my main focus for most languages is reading text, and I scarcely speak to others even in english, so stressing over doing it in another language is pointless!

Honestly, I started to learn German from zero and I found Nicos Weg absolutely impossible to follow, it was after one year of learning authentic A1 level content (reaching around 1.000 thousand words) that I was able to understand some conversation conversations in Nicos Weg.<br>In my opinion is not a good advice to start with Nicos Weg from scratch, because it’s not comprehensible input material for a total beginner.

Bilingual here: Trying to pick a German philosopher as your reading material is proper insane. German philosophers take malicious pleasure in expressing themselves in the most ambiguous, florid, and impenetrable way possible. When I read German philosophers, I read them in the English translation and THEN in the original.

The resources and ideas you&#39;re sharing are really useful and make sense, but I think they are not enough to reach full speaking fluency in German fast (within a year), unfortunately. Even if you talk to yourself or retell a story, you are missing one of the most important things, which is another person to correct and give you feedback every time you make a mistake, as parents do with their children when they are learning to speak. We, as adults, should not be afraid of making mistakes while speaking, since that is part of the process. Automatic phrases come after lots of exposure, repetition, mistakes, and feedback. Unfortunately, we, as adults, don´t have most of the time the same opportunities as children, who are forced to speak and make mistakes.

Im not even learning German. However I am learning Japanese I guess and I did try to jump to a really hard book but I, unlike you, didn&#39;t give up lol. Still going at it and it&#39;s been pretty good, not very far but whatever. I&#39;m getting there and more importantly I&#39;m having fun &gt;:3

I am learning German, native English speaker. Word order is a bear for me. It was described to me that when learning my first language, there was no memorizing. Plus, by time we enter Kindergarten in the US, we already have years of language training under our belt. <br><br>good luck to those learning