Learning German Words Via Translation? Here's when TO do it AND when NOT to.
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2021
- Many students end up using translation as a perpetual crutch. And it keeps them from ever becoming fluent in German.
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There are two different types of German vocabulary and two different ways to learn them!
Discover the specific instances in which translation is necessary and learn when you absolutely should NOT translate (and what you should do instead).
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I love your teaching style. I was so intimidated by all the language learning vids out there. If you ever did italki or group zooms through Patreon or substack or whatever, I bet those types of live/interactive platforms would suit your vibrant style. Anyway, thank you! I'm not sure if I'm going to Germany yet; if I do, your full course will be the one i sign up for. Rn I'm enjoying your German pedagogy even for fun, let alone practical interest🤓🍎
Thanks for the suggestion! That is worth looking into for the future!
I just love the engaging way you speak and teach, it's a pity you haven't posted in the last months.🌹
Sorry about that! I've been busy recording my latest course. It is my hope to get back to youtube in the future!
@@GermanwithLaura I miss you.
I hope to get back.
Thanks alot for all lessons.
You are so good teacher.
I have replaced the English word with a picture in as many of my Anki flashcards as I can and this has greatly helped me to learn German words and use them in German sentances. Going from concept directly to German is a top tip from Laura.
This was EYE OPENING! Thank you Laura!
We need more videos please.
thanks much laura , i am really enjoying your teaching method , you really motivating me to continue learning german
Hi dear Laura! I have to admit your articles about German language helped me a lot especially your famous All-In-One Declension Table! I only memorized that table + a few exceptions and now I can choose the correct declension for all adjectives and nouns in every scenario! You deserve a medal! I pray for your health everyday!
One more great video from you, I am really addcited and motivoted to learn more and I wish to meet you and appreciate your work
wish your courses on your site could be free aswell :( i learned english by myself but somehow cant find the same strength to do it in german and you seemed helpful but sadly it ended at some point yea thank you tho i hope you ll upload more videos here and we can benefit from them loves
So helpful, thank you.
I love your style, the way you explain things - everything gets easy! Such a shame that you don't publish any longer :/.
I may get back to it! I have been working extremely hard to get my next course ready and it just launched today! I'd love to have you jump in as a full student by starting with my free mini-course, here!
germanwithlaura.com/unlocking-german-grammar/
@@GermanwithLaura ❤ We miss you!
Thank you so much for the explanation. Do you have a way to learn the vocabulary for work purposes?
Hi Laura, I love your videos! This is exactly what I've always needed. Thanks so much! I noticed you have a deeper course on your website. Unfortunately, I'm on a really tight budget and can't make it work yet. Do you ever do sales? ;) Thanks either way. This stuff is gold!
Vielen Dank! Yes, definitely do sales and I have some payment plan options available too, in order to make the course as accessible to as many students as I can.
First step is to sign up for my FREE mini-course: germanwithlaura.com/unlocking-german-grammar/
@@GermanwithLaura Yep, thanks, Laura. Already been through it. Love it! I need to go through it again. Thanks for getting back to me-I’ll keep checking back in. I really want to buy the next class. You’re a GREAT teacher-thanks again for doing all this!
I knew that I was learning faster not trying to translate in my head🎉❤
Good morning teacher xxx. Thanks again.
Hey Laura-Thanks for all the great content! I’m curious about your more extensive course and if maybe you have any Christmas sales for it going? I’m thinking about getting it set up for my dad this year. Thanks! :)
Hey there!
Generally the best way to be informed about any sales that we are currently offering is to sign up for my free mini course Unlocking German Grammar which I'll link below. That puts you on my email list.
However, since you are looking into it as a present for someone else, go ahead and email me at hallo@germanwithlaura.com and we will work something out!
germanwithlaura.com/unlocking-german-grammar/
@@GermanwithLaura Thanks so much! I’ll be reaching out asap :)
Hi Laura! What is the best way to watch your videos - oldest made videos first? I don't want to waste any more time with the inefficient manner in which I have been taught in the German VHS language and cultural courses that I must take. I have no choice but to take these mandatory classes but you are absolutely correct that I am gaining nothing but frustration with no ability to construct sentences where I can communicate with people. Since I'm enrolled in the class, I'll do the work, but please tell me in what order I should watch your videos and follow any supplementary information have you available. Please answer me asap!!! Thank you!
Hallo Susan. If you're in my German Foundations course, you wouldn't need to watch the grammar-oriented videos here: you'll get a lot more info on the same topics inside the course.
I would assume you'd still benefit from watching my most recent series (on passive vs. active vs. applied learning) and also the opening & closing videos of my longer series (again, skipping the grammar videos in the middle).
Probably watching these ^^ right away, before diving into the 'meat' of German Foundations is all to the good; but I don't know that there'd be a 'wrong' time to watch them. :-)
Very helpful videos to learn German.
Very good video shared
I a, interested to watching
Very useful.
Thank you very much for teaching
Sister Laura can give your Instagram?
I actually don't currently have facebook or instagram, but maybe that'll happen in the future!
Hallo weider !
Ich möchte dich was fragen.
I saw some sentences containing two adverbs like
_Am Samstag können wir vielleicht Fußball spielen_
I wonder why it's not like
_Am Samstag können wir Fußball vielleicht spielen_
I mean is there a rule that says adverbs(vielleicht in this example) must come before Objects(Fußball in this example).
Would you mind helping me?
Tschüss!
Adverbs modify generally the following word. In the first example, you maybe could play soccer (vs. chess or tennis, etc.) and in the second, you could maybe play soccer (vs. some other verb --eat soccer? sleep soccer?). Clearly, only the first sentence therefore makes sense. :-)
but how do you learn through the concrete path, its not like i know all german words to connect the concept directly to german, if i saw a flower i wpuldnt immediately know the german word for it, id have to translate it, which turns me to the abstract path.
It's a matter of learning vocabulary using good resources, e.g. ones that use pictures & German (and no English translations).
@@GermanwithLaura Ohhh so like in a childrens book where theres a pencil and below the german name for it
Very nice
German and English are so close in some ways and so far apart in others. I notice both languages use a lot of particles like da and denn and so and then, which look similar but get used slightly differently (Germans use "so" much more than we do.)
I argue that German is only similar at the basic level with simpler, one- or two-part sentences given many comparably similar common words, but diverges significantly once you get to CEFR level B1 (between FSI level 2 and 3) - not just in the local structure of verb / adverb placement that people make fun of, but particularly in the "global" sentence structure where whole *clauses* are expressed very differently from English (at least when a native speaks). It really should be a "category 3" language IMO
overlap in meaning of common words, (z.b. da, denn, so, usw.) is a feature of all languages, obviously, but can be exceptionally bad in German unfortunately, more so than in English because they often make a bigger difference and their placement determines huge differences in their meaning.
Actually it's terrible IMO with a little imagination:
Da er da war, blieb er da da.
"Since he was there, he even stayed there."
Ist das das "das," das "das" heißt, oder ist das das "das," dass das "das" heißt?
"Is that the "the" that means "the", or is that the "the" that the "the" means?
Mark Twain was right about the language all along.
www.destination-munich.com/mark-twains-essay-on-german.html
@@danmccarron0 It does some things similarly, but the simpler inflection is the obvious one, as you say. English also has a verbal structure influenced by insular Celtic, and to a lesser extent French and Norse. I use Scottish English which has even more Celtic influence on it.
One can express some ideas very similarly to German, but it comes over as excessively literary, when the verb at the end of the clause is.
@@thursoberwick1948 "like Shakespeare" is the typical comparison, although that's only the simplest case for a sentence with one main and one subordinate.
A long sentence like in a newspaper with multiple clauses ending in things like "davon" or "dazu" feels somewhat like you have to work simultaneously from the beginning and end of the sentence and move toward the middle to "feel sequential" to an English-thinking mind.
Here is one of Ida's videos (from Goethe) illustrating this while not being too advanced - like the descriptions are all introduced "Out of place," if you are still translate in your head.
ua-cam.com/video/Df8LiMY5gwI/v-deo.html
BTW yes, Modern English (and Afrikaans) are the two famous "degenerate" modern languages of Germanic origin. No genders or declensions to worry about.
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I am somewhat acquainted with the history of English - I "suffered" through a pair of courses from reading Beowulf to Canterbury Tales and a bunch of stuff in the centuries in-between, so it was quite a challenge...
The history of the evolution of all languages is very elaborate, but English is *particularly* active by any measure. It is fairly far from modern German at this point, diverging of course in the 5th century when it was a creole of the Gothic/Germanic tribes - Angles, Saxons mostly, but also Jutes and Frisians (and maybe a few more) combined with the assorted longstanding native people on the British isles after the Roman empire fell. After "Old English" gets rolling all hell breaks loose linguistically.
The Danish marauders came later (8th-10th centuries) from the same place as the Jutland people 300 years earlier. Vikings took over part of Gaul/France (colloquially called "Normans") and eventually spoke a kind of proto-French-Nordic creole. They then invaded in the 11th century (jealous of their rivals settling Iceland? I dunno). The result was a REAL creole - "Anglo-Norman" which became "Middle English" after the heavy influence of ecclesiastical Latin and Old French after the "Reconquista" of Spain. By 1500 we have "Modern English" loosely coinciding with the printing press.
And yes, various Celtic groups in UK (Scotts, etc) have thankfully been able to *preserve* much of their identities to some degree (before the Gothic influence in the 6th century and in some cases even prior to the Romans at the time of Caesar). Scottish and Irish are the most familiar obviously. *Ironically the Bretons,* after whom the country is named have not. Remnants of *their* language is really actively preserved in select regions of France and the French-speaking people there...go figure.
Thanks kak
NICE ONE...
What are you qualifications? I'm pretty sure "students" in the ense of those who study a language does not translate to "Studenten" in German. "Studenten" is only reserved for those who study at a university.
Is your any whatsapp channel for this purpose.where I can get the lessons as .
Grüß Gott!
Ich möchte dich was fragen.
I had some confusion about word order but I studied a lot to understand and following sentences are my some outcomes. I'd be grateful if you could check them if they are true
Conjugated verb is always next to subject. (either S+V or V+S ).It doesn't matter what order they're in. Subj comes *before* or *after* the verb as long as they're together.
If other elements rather than subject like adverbials objects etc. comes first ,that means they are wanted to be emphasized more.
+ Ich habe Englisch um 8 Uhr.(normal order S+V)
+*Englisch* habe ich um 8 Uhr.(here English _object_ is emphasized I don't have Mat etc. ,for ex., I have English)
+*Um 8 Uhr* habe ich Englisch.(Um 8 Uhr _adverbial _ is emphasized here Not at 4 pm ,for ex.,)
Ich freue mich schon auf deine Antwort.
Tschüss
All those examples are spot-on!
Gut, gut, natürlich gut, alles gut
Anyone here wants to learn German together??
Konnen sie mir bitte helpen
I don’t like this! acquisition Is the only way because that’s what we all did for our L1.
Ich verstehe dich nicht !
Waste of time too much talking
Sorry to hear that it was a frustration for you! I do think I've gotten better with each video I've made. :-)
I can't smell freedom either but that's because I have a mask on my face half the time now.
😂😂
Hi Laura. Thank you for your benevolent and intelligent way of teaching.
I wanna ask you to make a new series of videos in which you read short stories and analyze 'em lexically and grammatically.
I also want you to categorize them in A1, A2, ..., and C2 if it's possible. Thank you for your being nice. 🤎💜💙💟🖤💛🧡
Interesting idea! I'll think on it. :-)