German Thread

Don't know exactly yet, I'm studying abroad for 1, maybe 2 years. However, I lived in Hannover once, it's my second home.
 
And I agree, Hannover is lame. Only good if you want to become a famous politician methinks *g*

If not, join the south-west. Close to Swiss/French Alps, smaller mountains right in front of your door. Distance from my university to this ski region: 30km.

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It's more a personal connection, first town I ever city ever left the country too, I have a lot of friends and what I consider family there. It is a great city too, I hated Köln and was bored of being there after a day, however the Dom is quite amazing. Berlin is a really cool city, still being rebuilt (also got my laptop stolen out of my hotel room there). Düsseldorf is where I flew into, didn't get to see much of it so can't say, and I have heard soooo much about Hamburg. I've also heard the south is quite nice and culture is really laid back.
 
All I need to be reallly considered fluent, is a faster processor in my mind, and more vocab, I know most of the grammar skills and quite a bit of vocab.
 
I have almost the exact opposite problem, I've got the speed in understanding, comprehending and speaking as well as the vocab, it's my grammar that is terrible. I learned to speak while living there so I was never taught grammar rules, just like how in English we know to say I am and not I is, but we dont know why or the rule, well it's the same for me in German. Like I know that after "mit" the word following will end in an r, but I have nooo idea what case it is. The more you use your german the faster it will come
 
No mit is a dativ preposition, therefore the word will end in m (masculine), r (feminine), m (neutrm) , or n (plural)
 
That's what I mean, I just know that when I speak I would say mit mir or mit dir, but then I also have a bit of an austrian dialect, that's where I learned german, so say instead of saying ich wieß nicht, I would say i wos net so that throws people off too, but I can speak the high german its just a matter of consciously doing it
 
&lt;im german and I know shit about the grammar. If you got the basic skill noone will mind and everyone will understand you!<br>
 
I will second that, I know a lot more about imperfekt verbs than some Germans, I was using them today and explaining to them what the difference was haha, but again, if you want fluency....vocab, vocab, vocab! Another time I said gewollen cause stupid me couldn't think of the past tense of wollen and they understood it fine even though it was a bit weird. If you don't know a past tense version of the verb, adding a ge in the front or if its like abhauen (to scram) put the ge in the middle, abgehauen.
 
that "ab GE hauen" and similar stuff has to be confusing as hell. seriously, german has to be 5 times more complicated as english.
 
Not being as good at it as in English, somehow I feel that German is so... rigid and forceful in rules, that if you just take some time to master the datives and nominatives, along with the "ab GE blaa blaa" forms, it feels simpler than many other languages.
 
I figure it might be really hard to learn stuff like "konjunktiv 3" because I dont think that exists in any other language
 
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ich bin in der Deutsch zwei Klasse und ich hasse es....

nicht Deutsch, aber die Klasse. So uninteressant...
 
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