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E_T
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Orlando, Florida
Mar 2001
time: 00:37
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Originally posted by Arnelos
E_T,
I'm in 4th Semester German. I think I know how to conjugate haben and how to pronounce Ich by now. 
In terms of my ability to use German:
Proper pronunciation: Good 
Grammar: Good
Vocabulary: Deplorable 
I took 4 years of German in High School, another semester audited one semester a few years ago, and I haven't taken the language since. So diving back in by taking a 4th semester course is a bit... challenging. My pronunciation is still very good compared to other students and my grasp of German grammar is still very good, but I've forgotten much of my vocabulary over the years. |
I had taken 1 year at University, with nothing before that. I'm the same, My vocabulary stunk but I was good in the other areas.
When I was taking it, My vocabulary was sooooo bad (s*cks actually), that I was about to fail my first semester. Towards the end, I started making up German Flashcards, with the German words on one side (and their different conjigations/pluralisations/etc) and the english word/translation on the other side.
I didn;'t start my flashcard projuct until about 1/2 through the semester and they helped me bring a badly failing grade up to a high D. The next semester, which was tougher, I got a B.
It Took me forever and a LOT of 3x5 cards, but once I had them done, I could just suffle and work through them, when I had the freetime. And I could practice both German to English and English to German. I would work at going through the whole deck at least once per day.
E_T
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Aidun
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The Hague, the capital of the civilized world
Nov 2002
time: 06:37
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quote:
Originally posted by E_T
I had taken 1 year at University, with nothing before that. I'm the same, My vocabulary stunk but I was good in the other areas.
When I was taking it, My vocabulary was sooooo bad (s*cks actually), that I was about to fail my first semester. Towards the end, I started making up German Flashcards, with the German words on one side (and their different conjigations/pluralisations/etc) and the english word/translation on the other side.
I didn;'t start my flashcard projuct until about 1/2 through the semester and they helped me bring a badly failing grade up to a high D. The next semester, which was tougher, I got a B.
It Took me forever and a LOT of 3x5 cards, but once I had them done, I could just suffle and work through them, when I had the freetime. And I could practice both German to English and English to German. I would work at going through the whole deck at least once per day.
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The other option is, as I said above in German, to talk German or write with Germans. That is how I learned English. My notes for English were a mean of a 2, that's an F for Americans. So I dropped the subject at haighschool (under the former law that was permitted) and took German instead and did for the language subjects/courses only exams in German and of course Dutch.
When I became member of Apolyton, I knew of the basic English grammar, but very few words, so I had to look up almost every word in my dictionary for it's meaning. Often I had to look up a word more than once, but I remembered it in the end. Slowly but steadily I learned English.
Right now I only have to look up very special words. My English is even so developped that I can make poetry in English and I made and attempt to write some prose.
Aidun
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30-06-2004 05:09
. Ich sollte meines Wörterbuch bei mir halten und immer wenn ich von einem Wört nicht wußte was es meintete die Bedeutung nachschlagen.
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