German LANGUAGE LEARNING GUIDE

Now that you know some of the most important reasons why you should start learning German, let’s take a look at some useful tips that will help you learn this wonderful language more effectively.

Before you start learning German, you should ask yourself why you want to become bilingual in the first place. Many people who start learning a language just “because” end up quitting when things get difficult since they don’t really have a good enough reason to keep going, so it’s really important that you set clear goals that help you stay motivated throughout your learning journey and commit in the long run. In addition to motivating you, having clear goals will help you choose which aspects of the language you should focus on first, so for example if you are learning German because you want to improve your career, you’ll need to learn specific vocabulary that’s used in your particular line of work, whereas if you want to become fluent to travel the world, you should concentrate on learning useful phrases that help you communicate in hotels, restaurants and touristic places. What’s more, if you determine what you want to get out of the language, you’ll know exactly what kind of German course you need to take, and what your requirements are, which will help you find the perfect teacher.

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Although many people attempt to learn German on their own, if you’re truly committed to becoming a proficient speaker in close to no time, the smartest thing you can do is to find a native trainer. This will ensure you have someone to guide you through your learning process who can build a perfect learning plan for you that covers everything you need to know to communicate confidently. On top of that, having a teacher means you’ll get to practise your skills with a native speaker every week, which will have a huge impact on the way you speak, so if you want to sound like a pro and learn expressions that people in Germany actually use, contact us today and we’ll match you with one of our qualified German trainers.

If you know a little bit of German, but you’re not sure how fluent you are, you should take a language test. If you do this at the beginning of your journey to fluency, you’ll be able to choose better materials to study that are not too hard but not too easy either, and you’ll know exactly what to look for in a language course. On top of that, knowing what your level is now will allow you to check your progress in the future, so go ahead and take our FREE German Language Level Test which consists of 70 questions you can answer in no more than fifteen minutes. After you take it, you’ll get a score and you’ll find out which one of these language levels you have.

German and English are both Germanic languages, which means they share a lot of cognates, which will make it easier for you to learn new vocabulary. Don’t believe us? Here are some German words that look similar to their English counterparts and mean exactly the same thing.

Although these and other words will be pretty easy to understand and memorize, you should be careful with false cognates, which are words that look similar to English words, but have completely different meanings.

As you’ll soon find out, German nouns can have three grammatical genders: feminine, masculine, and neuter. For English speakers, it can be quite tricky to remember what the gender of a noun is, and because of that, they may end up using the wrong article before it, which makes them sound illiterate to German listeners. To avoid this, the best thing you can do is learn new nouns with their corresponding articles, which are >dernouns, die for feminine and das for neuter, so for example instead of learning the German word for house, which is Haus, in isolation, you should memorize it as das Haus and you’ll always remember it’s a neuter word.

With so many free language apps at your disposal, there’s no excuse not to practice German every day regardless of where you happen to be. Don’t know any? Here are our top picks that you need to try.

Learning a new language can be a really entertaining experience, especially if you surround yourself with meaningful input that helps you understand the language and the culture of the countries where it’s spoken. There are many ways you can do this, but in case you can’t think of any, here’s a list of things you can do to immerse yourself in the German language.