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Any tips and secrets for learning German grammar, mnemonics, etc. please?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Read a LOT and the things will go into your head.

    A few: itchy dust 10 10 (conjugation endings for regular verbs ich--e/du---est, t, en, t, en)

    ZAP--Zeit Art Platz--time manner place--for the order of adverbs in a sentences "ich bin am Samstag langsam durch den Park gelaufen.

    when--Sat

    manner--slowly

    place--through the park

    der word endings:

    reesy,neesy, merman

    with m/f/n/pl and Nom. Accus. Dative across the left:

    -er -e -es -e

    -en -e -es -e

    -em-er-em-en

    Sing dative preps to the Blue Danube

    (aus, ausser, bei, mit, nach seit, von zu)

    two-way preps --Dative-dead (just sitting there)

    Er sitzt im Stuhl.

    accusative-active (going to a place)

    Er geht ins Kino.

    Of course you have to know and understand the basic rule before the mnemonics make any sense!

    Source(s): 30+ years teaching middle school german and french
  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    German Grammar Tips

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Learn German Fast ans Easy!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    With a question like that, you need a lot more than secrets. I mean, I could give you some, but you'd have to be more specific about what part of the grammar you want help with, else I could write 3000 words.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    specific, German may be very complicated for a close-by English speaker. Coming from a language with one gender like english, to having 3 may be very fantastic and complicated. i might propose sorting out a language equivalent to French or Spanish first, that's going to likely be easier. yet once you do not techniques it being puzzling, then circulate with German. that's a uncommon language. lots of the words sound very comparable to english, and French, and a few of them are way way fantastic. And the third gender isn't very common. that's used, notwithstanding if now not that traditionally, so do not enable it scare you away :)

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