Learn German Nouns Like an Adult! | German with Laura
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
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STOP trying to memorize German nouns with a random ‘der die das’ to indicate their genders.
Take the guesswork out of learning the gender of German nouns by leveraging your analytical abilities as an ADULT learner of German.
You can learn smarter, not harder, by making use of efficient and effective learning strategies such as studying German noun endings.
There are several ironclad endings (i.e. they have no exceptions) and these should be learned first. Most German noun endings have just a handful of exceptions, but some have a significant number.
In some instances, knowing just a handful of noun endings (e.g. -heit, -keit, -ung) allows you to automatically know the gender of over 1500 German nouns!
Once you know the gender of the noun, you need to properly internalize the gender, the word itself, and its meaning so that you can draw upon this information instantly like a native speaker. Again, there are specific learning strategies here that are most efficient and effective.
Do you want to speak German? Then you need to get unstuck when it comes to German noun gender. Let’s go!
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This is the level of understand that only comes from a non-native speaker. I was about ready to quit learning German, thanks for the fantastic video.
your videos are great. I like your demeanor and style of teaching - very pleasant and comforting to watch and learn from. I'm watching your videos to help myself be better in this regard (I tend to come across as very intimidating). I currently teach English to Germans (not very high in demand in the states to be sure) but I need to pass the C2 exam before I am certified to go the other way officially.
Also comforting to hear your support for leveraging "adult skills." I don't think this can be emphasized enough. I work for one of the Inlingua schools which emphasizes immersion but not to the point of this childlike "kindergarten learning," so I have this argument with people all the time and it's a wonder the method became popular in the first place.
Also all adults regardless of education, intelligence, or developed analytical ability at least have preinstalled vocabulary and life experience that allows discussion of things that are inappropriate for children or don't have some pictures you can draw or some thing you can touch. 10-year-old children might be able to speak more fluidly about childlike topics than any non-native speaker below the B2 level, but would not understand "Mangelhaftigkeit" even after it was explained, which any adult would understand after looking it up in a dictionary. That alone is enough to show that adults shouldn't be taught like children.
This 13 minute video taught me more about genders than multiple hours of Duolingo - thank you!
Excellent tutorials...you are really helping my German, over the last two days! I've moved to Germany, and really need to be speaking the language more fluently. I have been learning for years and the learning has been slow, but now hoping to speed things up with the help of your channel and the great way you teach. Thank you so much.
I'm so glad to hear this! I'd love to have you jump into my free mini-course Unlocking German Grammar to continue your awesome progress! You can find that free course here-> germanwithlaura.com/unlocking-german-grammar/
love your approach to teaching german!
I concur. Helps a lot!!!!!
Hi Laura! So happy I found your courses…I’m picking up my German again after many years and you are helping to take my knowledge to the next level. Thank you so very much 😊
You are a really good teacher, I’m lucky that I found these videos
Wish I could learn more from you.
Thanks
Ah, thank you so much! I'd love to have you join my free course, Unlocking German Grammar. You can check it out at the link below.
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Your videos are brilliant. Thank you very much for posting them.
I AM ADDICTED TO YOUR VIDEOS. SUBSCRIBED
Ja genau! Sie sind einer der besten Lehrerin! Ich danke Ihnen!
Thx u so much , all of ur vids helped me thru this german learning hardship a lots
Very helpful! Thank you.
You got a very good conversation about German verbs thanks for doing that they need her verbs
Underrated video.
Extremely helpful lesson, thank you so much!
Thank you, your videos are extremely helpful : )
Thank you for the tips,so useful.Vielen dank Lehrerin :)
Thank you very much! I didn't lnow that there are kind of rules like you explained!
Thank you 👍
I have searched and studied many German course but none of them cleared my confusion regarding grammar, I thought German is impossible to learn but after watching Laura, she made it so simple and easy to learn. Now i will continue to follow her up. Thank you! :)
So great to hear! German is difficult, but not impossible. :) You absolutely can do this!
Thanks very much for sharing
Guten Tag , Prof Laura. Your lesson is so clear explanations and interesting. Yes I appreciate you introduce the tactical approach of learning German. I really like the pronunciation of ( 1 ) das Brüderchen , ( 2 ) das Schwesterlein, ( 3 ) das Teppichchen. ( 4 ) der Frühling. Danke schön.
Wow 🤩 you made it look so simple
Hope people made it feel so easy 😞
Thank you miss Laura you are better than the mr I have at school I think you should be come a German teacher in a real school and I am a third grader girl I am 8and I love your video also this is my first video I have ever seen❤❤😊😊
Amaaazing !
Great stuff
Please make more videos
You may want to revise your grammar regarding the use of "chen" vs. "lein" as the diminuitive form.
When you are obviously beginner, how important is use nouns exactly righ for every day talk?
Good
Masha Allah
The color remembering might be actually the easiest way to remember for me. Because trying to add ''der,das,die'' to thousands of foods doesnt work at all because they dont have these endings :D
Yes, it does make it trickier when those endings are absent. One noun group you can think of it fruits! Nearly all fruit will be feminine. Der Apfel and der Pfirsich are exceptions from that. :-)
So really you should drill endings rather than nouns
Kleidchen als Beispiel
Fröhlicher Gruß.
Ich heiße Daniel. Obwohl Meine Muttersprache kein Deutsch ist, ich versuche, es besser zu schreiben. Heute stelle ich diese Frage hier für Sie, Laura.
Könnt man die Endungen "-chen" und "-lein" aufheben, um die Wörter ohne Diminutiv zu nutzen? Zum Beispiel. Wenn man bedeutet, dass jemand ein Mann oder eine Frau ist, aber nicht als Aufwachsender, das wäre nur "die Mad" statt "das Mädchen" wegen einsilbiger Wörter mit Vokals.
Danke für Ihre Erklärung. Tschüss aus Kolumbien.
Hallo Daniel. Ja, das -chen und -lein könnte man immer weglassen, aber man müsste dann auch den Umlaut (wenn es einen gibt) normalerweise auch abheben UND häufig ein -e am Ende des Wortes dazugeben! Z.B. das Fläschchen -> die Flasche (aber das Tischlein -> der Tisch [keinen Umlaut abheben, kein -e dazugeben]; und das Brüderchen -> der Bruder [Umlaut abheben, aber kein -e dazugeben]). Normalerweise kreiert man aber das Diminutiv von einem Nomen (z.B. Flasche, Tisch, Bruder), das man schon kennt und nicht andersrum. Mach dich also keine allzu großen Sorgen über die obenerwähnten Erklärungen!
Yeah, totally. Dont go for the children approach with German. It's just bad. Analytic approach is the way to go. I also have a video on that noun gender topic called "Genus (gender rules)". It's quite detailed. My recommendation.
I appreciate all your work but I'm really thrown by the colors. Studying gendered languages, I use blue for masculine (blue for boys) and red for feminine (pink for girls). It's probably because I'm old and pathetic, but seeing those colors assigned oppositely throws me. When I study a language, I use colored pens in writing word lists - helps me a lot.
Maybe the exercise of swapping colors in my head for your videos is good for my old noodle! You do great work, by the way! Truly! Thank you for all you do!
Thank you!!
I'm with you on the colors, honestly. I wish I would have started with those colors. It's baked into so much of my content now, though, that it would be difficult to switch a this point.
That said, if you do just go for it and stick with the new colors, it'll be second nature in no time!
@@GermanwithLaura Thank you for the kind response! I do like your channel quite a lot. I learned German as a kid and studied in high school - I soon will be 70! The pink/blue pattern I use is too engrained in my brain, I'm afraid - and I've made so many flash cards using those colors in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian - and German.
Here's how I'll look at it - using my pattern of pink=feminine; blue=masculine and watching your videos will give me more cognitive exercise - which I can use at my age! Hey - maybe I'll switch al my clocks to 24-hour displays. Except I'm too lazy. Sigh...
Your use of color isn't nearly enough to put me off your channel. I like how you organize information and the way you present it. Very helpful! So again - THANK YOU for all your work! ❤
Warum sagen wir der Kuchen? Und nicht das
Because it is a masculine noun. We can know that because it has the -en ending.
dict.leo.org/german-english/kuchen
Also, the ending -tion is feminine across all European languages. Eg die Aktion
In Latin genders ; regarding the subject of nouns ,, the Roman’s used to see objects as living spirits ,,
people who have been reincarnated ; reintroduced back in their own groups, & placement in society ,,
It’s a bit like a little kid ; whence he or she had an over-active imagination ..
looking at things from a different perspective ! like imaginary friends ,, so using the vocative case !
talking to invisibility for example ) what my husband & I say to each other ]
𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 ?? 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡 )