I feel a large part of this sub is UK/USA citizens asking if they can move to Germany without learning German. Well, since I want to move to Germany in the next 6-8 years, I should probably start learning German. So here I am!
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Posted by l3m0np1e132
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I’ve been learning German while I’ve been here. Some days I’m able to navigate interactions at the shop or on the street without having to switch to English. Then other days like today, I had a dude switch to English before I’d said a word. That stung.
WTF is this task? Why you have to always write kein, but sometimes it doesn’t makes sense. And it’s not even your fault. They gave you bad sentences and examples.
Why should someone ever say (literally translated)„kein Restaurant ist groß“ – no restaurant is big. Or No aunt is old. Or No map is here. No father is young. No movie is old. And so on. Even their example ‚no man is here‘ sounds odd.
By the way you started to misspell and wrote sometimes Klein instead of kein.
You basically said „little restaurant is big“ and „little picture is little“
But you did good. The sentences they gave you makes no sense though. Keep on bro!
I once had someone very rudely tell me that I needed to learn German about a month after I moved to Göttingen. Yes, that’s why I had literally come from registering for my class and had a textbook in my bag. I wanted to whack them over the head with it.
Why do Germans insist you learn B1 before moving here as a foreigner? So you can understand the insults!
One of my best jokes ever.
Where is the pupenfahrten ?
Nonsense. Germany is an EU member state. I can perfectly well live in Germany with my EU citizenship and not speak a single word German. It’s not like I want to learn another language every-time when because I move around the EU to another member state for a few years?
You can’t learn a language by studying it. Do extensive reading with a book that is slightly above your level. And consume content in German
I am German and I’d say just move to Germany, speak English (most will understand you and reply in English) and then do a language course in Germany while actually having the benefit of being surrounded by the language you practice. Of course, having a little bit of a grasp of German might help, but no need to be fluent. I shudder when I think of my German lessons in school, having to learn the grammar etc. And I could already speak the language!
Is this book any good?
Du bist sehr fleißig!