4 Things NOT TO FORGET When Learning German!! (With Cari from Easy German)

[@cynthj]

It's weird seeing Cari speak English!

[@EasyGerman]

ladyadventuring 😁

[@EasyGerman]

@De void ich spreche fast immer Deutsch :)

[@kukumbejohnn]

Easy German The day that my German will be as strong as your English I’ll proud of myself and thank you for your channel and videos, es ist sehr hilfreich!

[@soto575]

@@kukumbejohnn i have the same goal i just start leaning german but its so difficult i am having a hard time learning it ..

[@compleCCity]

Nope. Though she has a German accent. (Sorry!)

[@keidun]

The hardest part for me is not having anyone to converse with...not seeing it everyday...it would be much easier to learn being there...menus, signs, papers, television, etc... I have noticed many words change meaning based on context of the sentence...

[@Sohaila_fleur]

I totally agree with you

[@m-blue]

Yes like the example with the sun, you can say "I enjoy the sun" (Ich genieße DIE Sonne) or "I enjoyed the warming from the sun" (Ich genieße die wärme DER Sonne). If you cannot talk regularly to German it's difficult to get a feeling for it.

[@Welteninsel_K]

True (For me it is the same with English). Maybe you could watch TV shows/videos in German or read German books. That may help a little.

[@eli560044]

How many german KZbin channels are you subscribed to?

[@hanigharaibeh]

Hey man! I'd definitely be down for us both to practice German over Skype.If you'd like?

[@janicemehalick3984]

I am a non-native German speaker, and hands down the hardest thing for me is "der, die, das"!!

[@edwardthejust4452]

I learned German about twenty years ago, at Uni and living three years in Germany. Adjective Endings/Adjektivendungen as I recall was a bit tricky to learn. The best advice I ever got from a German speaker was: "Listen, Edward, listen to what they are saying in German, you probably will understand." Basically I think he was saying: Don't over think it, it will come naturally.

[@Sohaila_fleur]

I think the hardest thing about learning languages is not having the resources from which you can learn it

[@samoraali]

Hallo Sohaila, what do you mean by the resources?

[@leeannr3809]

Start anywhere and just keep compiling! Duolingo is free (albeit with ads)

[@BassBoostingBrony]

@@leeannr3809 For my experience, Duolingo doesnt bring it. you need something real to start with, like a lesson. I tried to learn german ( my native language) with duolingo, just for understanding how duolingo works, and it just throws phrases at you which are kinda usefull, but dont really "help" learning, like how to actually use them and how to use the declaration and such. TLDR: Its nice If you know basics, but for beginning its not really recommandable

[@Markle2k]

@@BassBoostingBrony Duolingo is definitely _not_ about learning "useful" phrases. It uses surprising and unintuitive sentences. This is to teach you how the language actually functions. The most common complaint in the early stages is by people who just want to learn "useful phrases" to get around on a holiday they are taking in a couple months.

[@Ulas_Aldag]

Definetly true. But don't get me wrong Iam not talking about German or other mainstream languages. Rather about minority languages, for example the kurdish dialect of my grandparents. There are nearly zero resources for learning the language and to be honest it will probably go extinct after my grandparents generation dies.

[@mayo2877]

The hardest thing learning English for me, a German, is pronunciation, and finding the right words. When I got out of school my bilingual friend recommended a book to me. But it was in English. She claimed it was very easy English because it was aimed at students, but I still struggled. I basically had to consult a dictionary every two paragraphs. Not because I didn't understand a word, but because there were so many unknown words I didn't learn in school. It wasn't that I had been bad in English in school, I could hold a conversation about global warming just fine, but words like petite, assertive, amiable, bashful, chives, parsley, ... basically any descriptive words, many cooking items and all number of daily objects I never discussed in school because they weren't a subject. Yeah, I didn't know these. I had to look them up, and they occur a lot in books. But I managed. After two years I rarely found a word I didn't know. But I wanted to watch an English film now. And oh boy, it was awful. Instead Istarted out by watching news-like KZbin channels which featured clear pronunciation and little background noise. These were fine. I then went on to other KZbinrs, and after a few months that was fine too. I can now watch English movies without problem, though it's no my favourite thing in the world. I'm also okay with writing in English, as evidenced by my lengthy comment. But actually speaking... since I'm out of school I barely spoke more than two words. For fun I wanted to describe the landscape to my mum a little while ago, but I already failed at "Wiese". Which is meadow. It's not that I don't know the word. If I read it, I know at once what it means. But for so long I've been trying to understand English, that translation wasn't my concern anymore. There are in fact many English words I know the meaning of roughly, but don't know a German approximation. I could guess of course, but that's rarely 100% correct. And trying to translate from German to English is very different from trying to understand English. Then there's the added difficulty of pronunciation. Since it's so irregular, I have all these words I've only seen in written form. I know what they mean, I can use them in written text myself, but actually speaking them aloud will trip me up when I try to get it out right. I rarely do. So really, the biggest problem is, that I have nobody to speak it with. Outside the occasional guy asking for directions.

[@compleCCity]

Though it's a bit different to mine, I can relate to your story, Mayo. About pronunciation: If you're listening to English movies/films/clips/music/games (as I do a lot for the latter kind), you'll got impressions of pronunciation, though dependent on local accent, maybe. And about speaking it by yourself, no matter knowledge of pronunciation: Just. Do. It. Be brave - as in all things of life. Speak, listen, talk - be sure, anybody not understanding your ways of English communication will ask what you just were saying, so you can put things right. Really, the most important thing about communicating in any language: Be brave, use your skills, but in any way - just do!

[@Jemima1377]

She really made a great effort to give good answers.

[@jemimamantilla8259]

Jemima1377 I liked your comment for what it said and then I saw your name (my name auch!) and wanted to double like it! ✨

[@deanmertz6244]

The hardest thing for me was keeping the cases (nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative) straight so I'd use the right articles and adjective endings. I had some old-school teachers in high school and college who really emphasized language drills. Years later I still remember exercises, dialogs, and memory tricks from class when I'm reading or talking with people. Like: the accusative prepositions ohne, für, über, durch, gegen-- remember OFUDG (Oh, Fudge!) Still love visiting Germany and speaking German!

[@maksimsmuizininks2365]

That's cool, thanks!

[@AlikVolkov]

Hardest thing for me is the sentence structures and the small details like the prefixes for inseparable verbs and the prepositions

[@OperaLover84]

Great video - I really enjoy Cari's insight. I also love hearing her speak English -- she sounds like such a different person :)

[@janaaj1an889]

I took a year of German in high school then joined the Army. They sent me to Germany for 3 years. I was in the Frankfurt/Giessen/Darmstadt areas. Germans almost invariably wanted to speak English with me. I wound up speaking German with tipsy Serbs in bars who were also trying to learn German. Der/die/das definitely very difficult. Love Germany.

[@fk4515]

My first exposure to German as an American was when I was in grade school, my parent's house was a duplex and they rented the apartment to a family that had just emigrated from Austria to the US. Their Daughter was a year older than me, their son a three years younger, I didn't learn as much German as I could of. The Daughter had had English in school and she preferred to speak English, as a matter of fact the Kids and the wife/mother picked up English quickly, the Father/Husband not so much, but he worked in a shop with his Brother In law and everyone in the shop spoke German. Fast forward 15 years and I'm serving in the US Air Force and stationed in Greece. I found Greek to be difficult to learn as the alphabet was entirely different, and being on a Greek Air Base the officers were usually pilots and pilots speak English. Being there with no car I didn't get off base as much as I might of had I elected to ship a car. The village near the base had several businesses with owners or employees that spoke English, some had lived in the US or Canada and for what ever reason returned to Greece. They seemed to want our business so we usually traded with them, the down side we didn't get the exposure to the language. It got to where I could use road signs to navigate but it wasn't that I learned or under stood the sign, I learned what the name of the cities I wanted to go to looked like and some of the common words. I went on temporary duty to Germany and found the road signs easier to understand, could hear someone say the name of a city and relate that to what was on the sign and once or twice I would try to say a German phrase and I must of been convincing enough as the reply would be made in German (and more often than not I wouldn't understand it). Back in Greece a few months later and our detachment gets a visit from a ranking officer in our American Chain of command and we all go out to dinner. The Commander's wife is actually German and she orders her meal in German (the restaurant we where at primarily catered to German speaking tourists) going with the flow we all ordered are meals in German, the waitress was a little taken aback later when she heard us speaking English and apologized for thinking we were German speakers.

[@gundulawilberg7407]

Oh yes, thats so true. I am German and i want to speak English ...

[@mydayswithoutyou]

As an Italian native speaker struggling with German, I'd mention two things that drive me crazy: 1) die Umlaute, in particular ü and ö (ä is not a problem); 2) definitely the articles! - I would also say that speaking, in general, is very difficult for me (in contrast to reading and understanding when others are speaking).

[@jeremyemilio9378]

Hardest thing is still the articles which are almost completely random

[@HalfEye79]

Not completely. There are some rules. But for the most time, you are right.

[@bartolo498]

No, they are not mostly random. No more than in French or Spanish anway, except that there is one more. Mark Twain made great fun of it, but he was wildly exaggerating.

[@MaliciousMarvel]

Understanding articles depends on your mother tongue a lot. If you don't know the concept of different grammatical genders to begin with, you're boned. Period. If you do know grammatical genders, but only two instead of three, it's much easier. Our articles are called "maskulinum" (~ male), "femininum" (~ female) and "neutrum" (speak "ne-utrum"; "none of the two"). So comparing languages like that could look like: Italian, French, Spanish (any other language that has two genders): "Oh look at us, we're extraordinarily industrious, we appointed each and every word to a grammatical gender ('genus') and we only have two of them, because there are only two natural genders ('sexus')." German: "Well, we got other stuff to do; let's quit half-way and call the rest 'something else'." English: "Screw it, just dump 'em all in the same bucket." My little joke shall tell you that things are just done differently in different languages. English is a very limited language (grammatically speaking). Starting there is very hard, if you want to learn foreign languages. That being said, grammar is something only few people totally comprehend. Many things work on their own (for native speakers), many things are just done wrong every day (including native speakers). In my opinion, one of the most important things learning German (starting as an English native speaker) is to realize that there are 2 kinds of gender in German, "genus" and "sexus". And when it comes to any kind of conflict between those, the grammatical gender, the "genus" is always more important. Since there is no such thing in English, this is especially hard to understand. Of course. The article indicates the genus and stuff. Just for example, there's a funny sentence I came up with today. "Ich bin ein Mitglied der Gruppe." Totally basic sentence. But the thing is "das Mitglied" is neutrum, "die Gruppe" is femininum, I am male. Take this, feminism. My natural gender has nothing to do with anything in this sentence, because it is all about grammatical genders. By the way, that whole genus versus sexus thing is the other way 'round in Russian, as far as I know. Have a nice day. ;-)

[@MaliciousMarvel]

@@BennyDACHO If you say so.

[@jeremyemilio9378]

@@BennyDACHO it is for the most part. How would i know the gender of a certain bacteria cell, or the gender of bicycle wheel hub grease or even the gender of the travel insurance i just bought if those things dont have a penis or vagina on them or could be connected to anything female or male in any kind of way

[@PavanKumar-mg3ql]

I feel this collaboration like Ironman meets Batman.. Subscribed both their channels for learning German and now they come together... My great language teachers

[@leeannr3809]

WoW, my two favorite German You-Tubers! ♡

[@EasyGerman]

🥰

[@Grant5620]

Leeann Rauchbach Ich liebe euch beide auch

[@paulsj9245]

Speaking of two words - article + noun - instead of one, I remember from my English classes that we had to learn three instead of one when it came to the verbs. It was most important to memorize the past and perfect tenses from the beginning to keep track in this "mess of randomness".

[@HalfEye79]

This is the same in English.

[@yelenayeli9529]

As a Dutch woman its easy to learn the words because they are alot alike but the artikels are very hard. Its funny how Stephan pronounces the 'ch'. That is almost a Dutch 'g'.

[@Zarkovision]

Dutch is top-level "ch". In Dutch lessons in Germany a popular word are "gereedschapskist", "scheerschuim" and "rood, geel, groen". The pronunciation of those five different "ch" can drive even Germans insane. :D

[@erictrumpler9652]

That was an "r" he was pronouncing!....he was saying "warte, warte" (wait, wait) but pronouncing it "warchte, warchte"...(sort of) in his rheinlander tongue.

[@yelenayeli9529]

Zarkovision Wow, didn’t know that. We even have differences between the north and the south of The Netherlands. The north has the hard to pronounce ‘g’. The south has a more gentle ‘g’. I’m from the north and I cannot pronounce the soft ‘g’ well.

[@Zarkovision]

@@yelenayeli9529 Once I had been asked in Alkmaar, from witch part of Belgium I was.😉 Well, my German accent had obviosly been misinterpreted.

[@yelenayeli9529]

@@Zarkovision It surprises me that someone thought that your accent sounded like a Belgium accent. You can see that as a compliment! Dutch people often recognizes a German accent. Especially while Dutch people are familiar with German accents. Think prince Bernhard and prince Claus. So, you visited The Netherlands. What was your impression? I think German and Dutch people often get along very well because we are so alike. Leuk jouw reacties!

[@st67839]

Wise words from Cari!

[@MeioAmarga]

I’m learning and the hardest for me is just speaking it and remembering all the words and the structure of the phrases in the middle of a conversation. When I am reading, taking classes and listening it is okay, but when I am the one that have to speak it is really difficult!

[@Thekillertastic]

For me the most difficult thing is that I cannot practice as much as I would like, but for the most part it is a logical and beautiful language.

[@teppey7147]

Ich versuche gerade umgekehrt die englische Sprache zu lernen, nach meiner Schule, wovon ich nur weniger als die Hälfte behalten habe. Seit dem ich über den Chor in Frankreich Engländer getroffen/kennengelernt habe, macht es mir nach 15 - 20 Jahren nach der Schule riesigen Spaß die Sprache zu lernen. Und das über Videos wie diese von "Wanted Adventure" und "Kelley does her thing". Ich nutze dazu den Untertitel, weil es mir hilft die Sprache zu hören und gleichzeitig zu lesen. Dass macht für mich die Sprache "begreiflich".

[@sprachinstitutberlindeutsc8985]

Different people have different reasons why they find German language difficult to learn. However, Carl is right, speaking German with people especially with Germans helps to correct any mistake, however, some Germans want to speak English with you to correct and perfect their English language too. Very helpful video. Thanks for sharing.

[@ceer9141]

Cari's english is so perfect!

[@zzukiyaki7521]

Come to Hannover. They speak Hochdeutsch :) thanks for this video. I need to practise more German....:(

[@keidun]

Hannover is a growing city in Germany,,,I have several musician friends that go to Europe once or twice a year to tour...along with Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, they also schedule Hannover and Stuttgart...Hannover is in the center of the North and Stuttgart is the center of the South...both would be great places to learn the language...

[@elizabethsreborns681]

When I went to Germany on March break last year… We went to Munich and I think I saw Stefan and Dana when I was doing a Munich bus tour!

[@meteor8076]

why haven't you contacted them ?

[@Aktivist1000]

Cari is right. As a former German teacher I would add difficulties like the main verbs at the end of a clause if used with auxiliaries and all verbs together there in dependent clauses; or the proper building of compounds. But those are trifles, the crucial point is to teach German as a still inflected language so the students hear automatically the difference between fließend and flüssig sprechen. :-)

[@AhmetMurati]

When I speak to people who want to relocate to Germany, I do tell them lot of things for example to have an appointment at your physician, in case you have children or you plan to have children then you need to reach up to C2 level of proficiency because for example when the teacher invites parents into a meeting then when he/she would discuss about your child then you should be in able to comprehend and interact with the teacher about the issues or problems what the children might happen to have them.

[@headsuphockeypodcast2707]

The hardest part for me was getting over words like Der and Das. Other than that for me as an American learning from Duolingo, Netflix, KZbin it helped me a ton before I visited North Western Germany. This time I’ll be in Munich, and Passau, Germany along with Austria 🇦🇹.

[@corinee.6222]

For me it’s the articles and the structure of the sentences :( but I love learning German 😄 ( I speak French and English and some things are similar to German).

[@robertlanciani7458]

Your first tip says it all. "The" vs " Der, Die, Das, Den, Dem, Des". Throw in case sensitive prepositions and primary and secondary adjective endings. A real challenge for and English speaking person. I sometimes refer to English as "Dumbed down German":

[@HalfEye79]

For me the hardest thing about English are the prepositions. Because some words change their meaning with the preposition. For example "look for" vs. "look after".

[@erictrumpler9652]

The hardest thing about English is the complete lack of pronunciation rules.

[@IsleNaK]

What are primary and secondary adjectives...? I've never heard that distinction

[@robertlanciani7458]

I was referring to primary and secondary adjective endings. Zum Beispiel…..Dieses schöne Bild. "es" the primary ending and "e" the secondary ending. When you have 2 adjectives describing the same noun. Case and gender must match. Nominative , Neuter. This and beautiful don't change no matter what the noun is in English. A lot to think about if you are learning grammatically as an adult.

[@saintperthnorthcloud3850]

The hardest would be remembering everything I've learned. It's hard to retain so much information.l but then again you have to listen to your core and ask why do u need to learn the language and keep yourself driven and well motivated. "Patience is a virtue and a whole lot of it" "Practice everyday and immerse yourself and be one of them"

[@lexmole]

In my opinion, the five hardest things are 1st to know when to use which grammatic case (after certain prepositions, etc.) and to declinate correctly 2nd the articles (especially because they differ in cases, like the mentioned word "die Sonne" sg. nom., and "der Sonne", sg. gen./dat.) 3rd the pronunciation, not because of the sounds itselves, but because of the combination and fluent speaking 4th the orthography, which, funny enough, also many *many* native German speakers struggle with 5th the correct usage of the Konjunktiv I/II, which most people don't do either way nowadays Well, I do speak perfectly German now, but when I came to Germany as a child, it was very hard to me to learn the language ... But I reckon if someone really wants to learn it, and put much effort on it, that it is definitely possible to become a fluent speaker after a few years.

[@Ananastasy]

Now I learn adjectives in German, their flexions and it's really hard for me now💥💥

[@klimtkahlo]

It is all in the mindset. As a Romance language speaker my first foreign language was French, then English and then German and I just loved German the most. Luckily as a Portuguese I could pronounce all the sounds including the umlaut ones. Also to all the countries that dub movies like Spain, USA and Germany just look how much better the countries that DO NOT dub movies speak languages: Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, etc. Food for thought.

[@derBartzer]

You should make a video with Stefan learning "Hochdeutsch" :D

[@AragonTigerseye]

I'd agree with Cari... An important part of learning any language is immersion, in a way. Nothing forces you to practice your pronunciation more than having to actually speak a language. (he says, only getting to do that, for English, once or twice a year for a week or so)

[@susi131]

For me a a German native the hardest part about learning Spanish is the conjugation in all the different tenses especially with all the irregular forms. As someone who has only learnt English so far (and Latin in school but let's not talk about that 🤣) because it doesn't really exist in English and I'm never thinking about it in German either. And the pronouns really get me as well. I don't know if I will ever be able to use lo/la/le right. 😅 But growing up in the north of Bavaria has at least taught me how to roll the r properly.

[@creatorsclassroom3009]

100% the Hardest thing for most language learning is the lack of practice with native speakers. If you do have a native speaker that you can practice with, you often learn their dialect, words, and phrases and sometimes STILL find yourself struggling if you speak with someone from a different area. My German experience is primarly Rhineland (Cologne/Krefeld) and the week I spent in Munich last fall was eye opening to the amount of Bavarian/Austrian I didn't understand. Thanks for the cross over video guys!

[@ceer9141]

You have picked up the "und ja" when you speak English "and yeah"... 😍

[@junctionfilms6348]

British English has a softer R apart from . . . . the south west of England where it is similar to a southern US 'R' and then as you go to the north or Scotland, you get the rhotic R, rolled R. Even some older people in the south east of Britain can have a stronger R or even rolled.

[@axlrazvan9745]

hi. I think the hardest part of german is just feeling comfortable when you speak with others. cause i´ve acknowledged that sometimes i make thousands of mistakes while i´m speaking in german but when the conversation flows it doesn´t really matters... so I think the trick and difficult part is feeling you part of the languages, i mean when you flow with the words and alles ... it is good.

[@leenasteen]

You are such a good teacher! You guys do a great job

[@yelenayeli9529]

Its great to watch you together in vids! I'm a member of both channels.

[@EasyGerman]

Yelena Yeli 😃

[@emwebb452]

I speak German quite well but find the grammar is the most difficult! My first German teacher was German and he made us work work work to eliminate our American sounding German. He also made sure we learned words with the articles! When I speak German my friends say it sounds more like I am from another (similar, i.e. Nederland) European country but that it is very good! I just want to speak with folks, so that is my main goal. We lived in 2 small villages in Germany, near the neck of HOLLAND/Nederland.

[@andrelangraf6850]

For me, the hardest thing about learning german is the sentence structure, specially when it comes to link the phrases with dass, weil, sonst und so weiter.

[@coreyjenkins5651]

I would say that the hardest thing about learning German is learning when to say den, dem, denen. So the articles. Now I have a question for you, I have spoken German for almost 5 years now. Many Germans say that my German is next to perfect. I had German for 5 years in school and have lived in Germany for 8 months. I would not at all say that I am talented! Just that it was so incredibly important to me to learn German! You guys said that if one has something to motivate you one can. Do you guys think talent has something to do with it, or do you also believe that one can want it bad enough to learn it in a few years??

[@thunder312]

Puh, das Beispiel zu den Artikeln „DIE Sonne - Von DER Sonne“ ist echt gut. Der Widerspruch war mir als Muttersprachler gar nicht so bewusst. Deutsch ist wirklich hundsgemein! 😂🙃

[@OperaLover84]

Like Dana said...Der Die Das and how some articles look like other genders depending upon the case.

[@Brownie2891]

Learning German I have to say the hardest parts are the vocabulary and the correct word order after certain prepositions

[@thbui3491]

hardest thing is compound verb, with konnen, werden, wollen in one sentence and I have to be careful about the order -.-

[@kimwold]

Yes, the "e" auf Deutsch is hard!! A lot people always say I have a good accent, minimal, but when it comes to vowels, it's so hard, such a simple word like "Mehl", to get it right is hard for me oder "mehlen", I am Spanish native speaker

[@gudguydeepak]

die beiden frauen sind sehr spannend! besonderes Kari, sie ist sehr Sensitiv, Sympatisch und Freundlich

[@alfredosanchezroca]

Super Video!

[@abubakarashidiqy7037]

Mein Deutcshland, looks struggle when I took at Goethe, especially at Conjugation

[@Pewtah]

As a native German I often experience foreigners struggling with the grammatical cases (nominative, accusative and genitive, with dative as an additional case in German). Example: I am *you*. - Ich bin *du*. I am *yours*. - Ich bin *deins/deiner*. I give *you* sth. - Ich gebe *dir* etw. I see *you*. - Ich sehe *dich*.

[@ozgecevik5170]

I still try to learn German and the hardest thing for me is to improve my listening competense. I always miss the whole sentence’s meaning.

[@BassBoostingBrony]

Try watching some kids shows in German, most of the time they dont speak fast and are easy to understand due to the smaller vocabulary they are bound to use^^

[@allisonmcclure3671]

Yeah when I was learning German I would try to talk to everyone in German, I know my German isn't that good, but still everyone would speak back to me in English. I think that maybe they were trying to be nice, but I wish they would have let me struggle!

[@andreasbuttner2085]

Bei mir ist es so, das ich das meiste auf englisch zwar verstehen kann, wenn man nicht zu schnell redet, aber ich kann mich nicht in englisch unterhalten 😁 Ich benutze zum Beispiel immer die Untertitel, wenn ich Deine englisch sprachigen Videos anschaue, dann kann ich das meiste verstehen 😁 Dein Deutsch finde ich superklasse 😁 Es wäre sehr schön, wenn Du regelmäßig auch Videos auf Deutsch machen würdest 😁 Die kleinen Instagram Videos, auf deutsch finde ich auch superklasse 😁

[@BassBoostingBrony]

Dann versuche ab jetzt ihre Videos ohne untertitel zu schauen. Das wird dir helfen mehr auf deine Ohren zu vertrauen. Du wirst nicht alles verstehen, verständlich, aber auf lange Sicht wird es dir wirklich mehr bringen! Und wenn du was wirklich nicht verstehst, dann kannst du ja zurückspulen und es nochmal versuchen! Üben ist das Stichwort^^ MfG Daniel

[@user-me8hy8ew4o]

Ich kann auch empfehlen z.B. Filme die du bereits kennst ohne Untertitel auf Englisch zu schauen. Dann verpasst du von der Handlung nichts und weil du weißt, was an den Stellen ungefähr gesagt wird, kannst du dir auch leichter das Englische erschließen

[@judcitizen706]

1. Word Order 2. Word Order 3. Word Order 4. Articles/Gender ----> case endings

[@neytirisbest]

Donna, speaking German is simply hell! Pronunciation is not that thing... But -der-die-das- is hell. You look great.

[@candypak7532]

The motivation for me to learn German is that as my mother language is Chinese(Tranditional), which people think is definitely one of the most difficult language in the world, how come I can't learn other language?😉

[@brianunderhill6069]

I agree, for me as a native English speaker learning German, remembering the gender of nouns is by far the most difficult part. I make a conscious effort to learn the gender, but its almost like I am not "wired" to remember them. Its as foreign of concept to an English speaker as the vocabulary itself. It takes a ton of repetition to make them stick and can be really frustrating because you need to know them really well to be able to construct even the most simple sentences correctly.

[@milenak413]

Learning german articles for me is very confusing, because in my mother tounge, Polish, nouns also have genders that are most of the time different than the german ones 😅 When it comes to pronounciation, the hardest thing to me was to overcome the embarassment when speaking things wrong. Now its a bit better and my austrian boyfriend even understand what im trying to say... Not always tho 😂

[@WantedAdventure]

Milena K The foreign language I learned in school was Spanish, and like you've experienced with Polish and German, Spanish nouns also have a gender and sometimes they are different from the gender of the word in German!! I made a video on this topic in December, using footage from a trip to Spain :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqnEoYlnZtuUecU

[@MTimWeaver]

Just found your channel from the Easy German video you did. :) I studied German back in the mid-1980s, and am starting to relearn it. The articles are definitely the most difficult thing for me, especially once you get beyond the nominative and they start switching up. Pronunciation isn't too bad, and I don't think I have a terrible time with the 'r'. I tend to go back and forth between the two "ch" pronunciations, as one instructor had the hard version like Stefan, and the other instructor the more "sh" sounding "ch".

[@eyutup]

The native speakers. There are so many dialects that are very very different one another, and very, very hard to understand!!! But, that's one of things why I love German..😁😘

[@learngerman761]

we love you cari

[@allenwaker1542]

For me the articles are really easy to learn I don’t know why I just find it very simple, but learning the Ge- perfekt endings is much hard learning them all

[@N1N4K]

Your next video should be the other way round.... 4 things not to forget when learning English.... Coming from a German background. I experience this when moving to Britain when I was 10 years old - it was very odd to say the least. There, Their, They're etc concept can still be a bit baffling to me after 20 years! But I find that when I visit family and friends back in Germany (Bielefeld, Kassel) many do speak Genglish (German x English) mutation which can be quite fun.

[@gravis778]

I think Cari hit on the two main issues I face - Articles and practicing. Like I am always trying to look for a rhyme or reason to the articles - I have been hung up for years on the concept of Das Madchen. What The Heck? So a cat is feminine, but a girl is not? Then Der Rhein but Die Danau? So frustrating. Practicing is hard too - as Cari said, you can go up and try German, and people will automatically switch to English. I have a friend who lived in Switzerland for 17 years, fluent in Swiss German and High German, and she would go into shops and speak Swiss German and people would speak to her in English, and she would be like "I am sorry, but my German is much better than your English." To me, though, one of the hardest things I have run into is that people just do not seem to appreciate me trying to learn German. I am hoping to move to Austria in the next few years, and when people in the town I am wanting to move to hear that I am trying to learn German, they are like, "Why? Everyone speaks English!" I have been to places where Germans or Austrians or Swiss will speak English to each other - I have actually heard a conversation go on for about 3 minutes, then someone finally say "Why are we speaking English? Aren't we all German?" Pronunciation is hard as well - especially when you try to get dialects in. Like with my exposure, I have a little Swiss, and a lot of Austrian influence, so half the time am unsure if I am pronouncing things right. I usually get "Eh, whatever, I can understand you"

[@RickMitchellProvenanceAndRoots]

Hardest thing for me learning German was the articles. Der/Die/Das were my constant enemies. LOL

[@BesseFam]

Ive lived in Germany for two weeks and while everyone is willing to speak English to me, i feel very awkward that i cant speak german well. The Germans around me also feel self conscious about their English skills. Social anxiety for all!!

[@dianedavidson5283]

Having the other person respond in the language you are learning.... they hear you struggle and it's easier for them to speak your first language. But you want to learn the new language! There's a certain politic to the whole thing, to deciding which language you will converse in.

[@m-blue]

Hey Dana, I'm a german native speaker, so I have never thought much about grammar rules (except in German class at school, but we have never spoken about " the basics"). There are no rules for Der, Die, Das existing in German? I thought a little about it and recognized words with an E at the end "always"?! going with "Die" or word's with an M in the end have the "Der"? An example would be "Die Sonne" (the Sun) or "Der Baum" (the tree) and others. Found also some other regulars for other letters at the end of a word (like "sch" or also "pf" going with Der). Maybe I'm wrong with this observation and other examples against came not to my mind right now. What are your experience?

[@WantedAdventure]

@Solembum Oh how I wish "der", "die", "das" had just a few simple rules that I could really count on!! There are technically a bunch of "der", "die", "das" rules, but actually SO MANY rules that sometimes the rules themselves started to conflict with each other and confuse me, sometimes making it even trickier than just memorizing it!! 😂 Therefore there is a chapter in my book (page 62) dedicated to that little issue called "Der, die, das"🤣

[@pierreabbat6157]

There are homonyms with different gender, such as das Messer (the knife) and der Messer (one who measures). French and Spanish have them too. The rules were easier in Proto-Germanic, with -az being masculine, -o feminine, and -ą neuter. But then lambaz is neuter, and -uz can be either (handuz: die Hand; wintruz: der Winter).

[@HalfEye79]

At least for the first "rule", I have a counterexample: "Der Pate". But words that ends with "-kraft", "-keit", "-heit", "-schaft" and the plural always have "Die".

[@pjmmccann]

Oh, gosh: there are lots of masculine nouns ending in "e". Käse, Name, Neffe, Gedanke, Experte, Löwe, all jump to mind (and a whole heap of others that come from making adjectives into nouns, like "der Erwachsene"). But most nouns ending in "e" do seem to be feminine, so it's a good bet if your don't know the gender of such a word! There are some handy indicators that that a noun is feminine: ending in "keit", "ung", "heit", "schaft", "ei" or "tät" seems like a guarantee that it's "die". The indicators don't seem to be quite so strong for masculine and neuter nouns. (Nouns ending with "chen", "lein" and "um" are neuter, nouns ending in "ner", "ich" or "ig" are almost always masculine, and nouns formed from verbs are masculine).

[@MarcioSilva-qe1vd]

The articles is the hardest to learn in German.

[@keyem4504]

Yes, moved to the Rhineland. Very nice people here. But Stefan should know. Oktoberfest is nothing compared to Karneval in Cologne.

[@derbgentler3868]

Very interesting video! :D I definitely will check out the "Easy German" KZbin-Channel! (I'm a native German speaker. But I like to hear about how it is for people learning it.) Maybe Dana and Cari do other videos together!

[@WantedAdventure]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the video!! It would be lovely to film together with Cari again in the future! I love filming with Cari -- we have made several videos together in the past. Here are links to a few of them: A GERMAN'S EXPERIENCE in USA with Cari from Easy German: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaqYZ3hjbpqJfK8 6 common Mistakes Americans make in German | Easy German 188 (with Dana from Wanted Adventure): kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYDGdImCZZl0irs True or False: Fun facts about Germany with Dana from Wanted Adventure | Easy German 163: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWGWZHaHrbFkh5I 11 CRAZY FACTS about the USA...or not? With Cari from Easy German​: ​kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGmYiXqlf5KbhJY

[@kathaa-b6972]

@@WantedAdventure Ich bin auch Deutsch-Muttersprachlerin, aber sehe gern die Easy-German-Videos! Ist immer (meistens) Gute-Laune-Content und man lernt noch was über die eigene 'Kultur' und Sprache. Und ja, ich würde mich auch freuen, wenn Dana und Cari auch in Zukunft immer mal wieder was zusammen machen :)! Thumbs up!

[@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment]

For me the hardest thing has been figuring out gender in words, basically "the der,die,das Part of your video"

[@mtrmann]

Dana's 'r' in Kari is good, she still has trouble with 'morgen'. But why can 't she still do a good guttural 'ch'? Practice, practice, practice.

[@andreaskarkova9133]

What is the most difficult thing when learning German? Where to start :D.... Definitely prefixes, sentence order, verbs conjugation, prepositions and articles.

[@RetroEggy]

One aspect that would absolutely scare me if I were to learn german as a foreign language would be compound words. Just looking at this mess of letters and trying to dissect it - scary. Especially since there's no dictionary for compound words - you can just make them up and they are technically correct - the stories of "Rhabarberbarbara" and, as a current addition, "Finanzbilanzfranz", take this to the extreme (search for those videos here on youtube - it's hilarious).

[@WantedAdventure]

There are actually a lot things I really 😍LOVE😍 about German compound words. But it definitely took me some time to realize I needed to stop trying to look the whole compound word up in my German dictionary, and instead look up the separate parts of the word🤣

[@HalfEye79]

Oh, thats nothing. You could construct words like: Oberweserdampfschifffahrtskapitänsmützenanhängerpoliturmachergewerkschaftsfunktionärswerbebroschürendruckmaschinenstromkreisherstellungsmaschinenschalterzustand and to seperate the components: Ober-weser-dampf-schiff-fahrt-s-kapitän-s-mützen-anhänger-politur-macher-gewerkschaft-s-funktionär-s-werbe-broschüren-druck-maschinen-strom-kreis-herstellung-s-maschinen-schalter-zustand

[@momosoliman5326]

totally agree that if you want to learn german don't go to berlin , i studied german in Humboldt uni in berlin , but i haven't use any german word in the streets :D but i really can't imagine staying in any city but berlin , the most exciting city in german

[@huzergackl9486]

I would love to see a video about dialects in the usa. That's a very interesting topic. I am coming from a very small village where my grandparents cannot even speak hochdeutsch. If my parents or i would try everybody would instantly hear where we are from :-D Even in school or my current job i am used to speak dialect. In bigger cities it is less likely to hear people speaking dialect. Is it the same in the us?

[@itsViirtueYEAH]

Right now I'm just having a hard time adjusting to the new grammar because English grammar is so automatic to me that I'll hear grammatical words like participle or article and wonder what it is and have to look it up and then I feel dumb (also the damn r)

[@devanginijaydeep5036]

Thanks for this video . #Namaste #India

[@Oxirir]

For me the hardest thing with learning German is really the same as with any other language: Keeping up in a conversation with native speakers. All in all, German, the "theoretical" part of it, was much, much easier than I'd imagined. Like everyone else I'd heard all the horror stories about how difficult the German language is.. aber es scheint ja so, als ist das einfach nur Quatsch. Also: "All the countries north of Germany have it easier with the pronunciation". As a norwegian, I can confirm that. Almost all sounds in the German language are also present in Norwegian. Often spelled differently, like the ch in "Ich", would in norwegian be spelled kj, but the sound is the exact same.

[@ninaseballa7621]

I consider the hardest part of effectively learning german is the method of translating it to english, before you come up with the exact german sentence.

[@ruthhunter3381]

That was fun. 😊

[@latishawakenya5962]

Always had problem with 'r' in German and all along I thought my brain is dumb. Thats for this video😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@Zarkovision]

I just came back from Lisbon, and I think I've never before learned that much in only one week. The trick: Ignore grammar. You need grammar, of course, if you need a language for your job, or if you want to become a writer or teacher in that language, then you have to learn proper grammar. But for sure not, if you just want to talk with the people. Try to learn the most important vocabulary, start with the most used. With only about 300 words and practically no knowledge of grammar (except what you've heard and copied from the native speakers) you will be able to buy food or tickets, introduce yourself, rent a room, have same basic small talk. The rest comes by talking to the people. And don't forget to learn vocabulary, vocabulary, vocabulary. if you got that far, you might want to learn some grammar. But that will only be for perfection, not for understanding the language.

[@JohannFritz78]

Identifying the case and adjective declanations.

[@IsleNaK]

Try Russian: 6 cases and verbs/adjectives/adverbs are declinated depending on the genus. Yeah even names: the last name of Putin's wife would be Putina. However not all names change: Klitschko is both male and female xD

[@JohannFritz78]

@@IsleNaK That is crazy! That is why I love my home language "Afrikaans". Just one article, just 3 tenses, verbs, adjectives and nouns always stays the same. The simplest, most descriptive, easy to use language in the world. Also the most modern, recently developed language...

[@GGysar]

The most difficult thing about learning a foreign language is to find a good teacher. many teachers want you to know all the grammar rules but in my opinion that's not realy helpfull. A language needs to be spoken and heard but no analized like an equasion.

[@frostyclamori7927]

So true

[@fernandobanda5734]

That is true for some people but not for others. I find it much easier to understand exactly what's going on in a sentence, even if it's an exception. Otherwise, I'll always be doubtful.

[@andygalindo8978]

I like Cari’s hair.

[@danapuzi]

deutsch zu lernen ist so viel scherer als zb englisch zu lernen. unser schulenglisch ist leider auch ziemlicher mist^^ man kann nur wirklich eine sprache lernen, wenn man von ihr umgeben ist! zum glück konnte ich mit meinem exfreund nur englisch sprechen ^^ eine 3 jahre lange beziehung in der ich nur englisch reden konnte! genau so lernt man es am besten^^ ohne diese beziehung könnte ich heute wohl kaum ein wort englisch^^

[@kimwold]

Exactly! The same thing happened to me in Berlin, I tried to speak German when I was on vacation and they would most of the time reply to me in English, soooo annoying and discouraging for learners

[@mayo2877]

Most likely they weren't trying to be rude. Maybe they saw you struggling and thought they could provide more understandable answers in English. Or they pounced on the opportunity to practice some English. When I was in Regensburg for a few weeks, a guy I met there told us pretty early on, that he wanted us to speak German around him, after we only used English with him the first day. That was okay, we complied and only spoke English when he asked for clarification or when we really wanted him to understand. Sometimes it also helps to just reply back in German, even if they answer in English. They should get the point.

[@patrese993]

Video suggestion: Three things not to forget when naming your kids - The true meaning of Jacqueline, Chantal and Kevin in the german language

[@asmiel666]

I have a question, in what language do you speak at home with Stefan, english, german or what we call denglish, or do you speak english and Stefan german?

[@bryfount9052]

What is b1 or c1 German?

[@typxxilps]

Did you move from sunday to monday ?

[@WantedAdventure]

@typxxilps Long story: when I first started the Wanted Adventure Living Abroad series in 2014 I was putting videos out on Sunday. Then I started doing two videos a week on Wednesday and Sunday. Then in June of 2018 I did a whole month videos every single day. Then after that I was putting out one video per week on Thursdays. Then in December I did vlogmas for 24 days of videos. And now in 2019 I have been putting my videos out on Monday afternoon😃😊 So long story short: yes😂

[@Medsas]

Hi Dana have you seen Never Look Away? what's your opinion of it?

[@HarpreetSingh-bg3fv]

DER,DIE,DAS make me crazy Everytime.