If you want to learn German by yourself or if you’re looking for something to read along the way… this might be it. Here you can find lectures about all that is important about the German language as a system. We will not do the usual “How to introduce oneself” or “How.to.order.things.in .A.rest.au.rant” here but we will eventually cover all the grammar. So… reading this won’t make you talk but I am sure it will help you understand how German works.
I decided to not structure the stuff in a linear way so the sections are pretty much independent of one another. That means more freedom for you… yeahhh. Ok…. if you are a complete beginner you should start with the basics…I mean… it makes little sense to read about time as long as you don’t know the past tense. But as soon as you’re done with the the essentials you can read whatever section whenever you feel like finding out more about the question… because it is then that you have a good chance of retaining it :).
So… go ahead, read what you’re interested in and leave the rest for another time. I hope you enjoy it.
The Essentials – Learn the basis German personal pronouns like I, you, we and so on… _____________ – Learn how to conjugate about 98 percent of all German verbs in present tense – well… the other 4 … uh I mean 2% _____________ – an introduction to the German past tense – learn how to build the ge-form and when to use haben or sein Past Tense 3 – yet to come _____________ – learn how to ask questions in German… part one deals with all the question words like was, wo, wer, wie, wann and so on… in detail :) – learn how to ask so called open questions … those without question words. Questions 3 – yet to come Cases and such – find out what cases are, why they exist, how they are in other languages and what cases and prepositions have in common (except that they suck) – find out about the two German cases no one cares about. The bland nominative and the shunned Genitive. But who knows… maybe there is more to them after all?? – mich, mir… accusative, dative…find out what’s up with those once and for all. – you want to get the endings right? Why not start today!? with this convenient starter kit you can get about 40% correct … and you don’t even have to bother about gender or case. – The second step to mastery of the German adjective declension will et you another 40% there with not so much of an effort. 3 – This one fixes the few mistakes that are still there… if you have 2 minutes to think, that is :). Seriously, it’s worth reading just to know what’s going on, but getting it right while speaking… no explanation can do that. Just talk and read and it’ll come :)