<div dir="ltr">My vote would be that it's not too much use meeting up with fluent speakers as a beginner <i>anyway. </i>Well, of course it's useful, but I guess you could say it's hard to find someone who will muck through "hello my name is... " etc etc pro bono. Most useful might be a study group to which you could occasionally invite a native speaker for help. Or lure someone in to teach with some free beer.<div>
<br></div><div>But yeah anyway, then there's also just the normal tutoring on Craigslist, City College, and the Goethe Institute (they also have different free German language events every now and then)</div><div><br>
</div><div>- Sean</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:18 PM, time <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timeecho@gmail.com" target="_blank">timeecho@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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hello all....yeah I was disappointed many months ago to find the German Corner never really took off.<br>
yes the best way to learn is immersion. What I've been doing is watching many translated movies I've<br>
gotten via torrent. That is with the english text at the bottom. Obvoiusly if theyre talking english that aint<br>
gonna help.......much., any. But I can suggest to get some subtitled stuff like<br>
Werner Fassbinders "Berlin Alexanderplatz" series. That played with some basic understanding really<br>
helps. But there nothing more fun or practical than actually speaking to someone. Remember in Germany<br>
there are many dialects mostly the two Low(northern) and High (southern) similar but differant. I'm listening<br>
if anyone else knows of other ways to practice. tschuss! <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for the info Sean. That's unfortunate. Yes, I guess I could start a study group, although, I'm trying to first find a group where I can get my feet wet, so to speak. I guess I'll keep
on looking. Do you know of any other groups that are active and would accept a beginner? I'm probably going to learn some on my own, if I can't find a group. I guess I prefer language learning through conversation/interaction with fluent speakers as opposed
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Hi everyone,<br>
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As someone who doesn't know ANY German (yet), would the Thursday night<br>
meetup be a good place to start learning it? Or is it more geared to those<br>
with some experience?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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It would be! If it existed. As far as I know, it hasn't been meeting up.<br>
I've been going to some <a href="http://meetup.com" target="_blank">
meetup.com</a> stuff, but that's often geared towards<br>
conversation, i.e at least intermediate speakers. You can always get a<br>
study group started up :)<br>
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> As someone who doesn't know ANY German (yet), would the Thursday night<br>
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