[German] German Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1

[Sean Fridman]

My vote would be that it's not too much use meeting up with fluent speakers
as a beginner *anyway. *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.

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)

- Sean


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:18 PM, time <timeecho at gmail.com> wrote:

>  hello all....yeah I was disappointed many months ago to find the German
> Corner never really took off.
> yes the best way to learn  is immersion. What I've been doing is watching
> many translated movies I've
> gotten via torrent. That is with the english text at the bottom. Obvoiusly
> if theyre talking english that aint
> gonna help.......much., any.   But I can suggest to get some subtitled
> stuff like
> Werner Fassbinders "Berlin Alexanderplatz" series. That played with some
> basic understanding really
> helps. But there nothing more fun or practical than actually speaking to
> someone. Remember in Germany
> there are many dialects mostly the two Low(northern) and High (southern)
> similar but differant. I'm listening
> if anyone else knows of other ways to practice.     tschuss!
>
> ,hardy
>
>
>
>
>
> On 06/29/14 21:11, Colin Flaherty wrote:
>
>  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 to some of the more traditional approaches.
>
>  Colin
>
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>> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:43:43 -0700
>> From: Colin Flaherty <cflahertysf at gmail.com>
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> As someone who doesn't know ANY German (yet), would the Thursday night
>> meetup be a good place to start learning it? Or is it more geared to those
>> with some experience?
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>> Thanks!
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>> Colin
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>> It would be! If it existed. As far as I know, it hasn't been meeting up.
>> I've been going to some meetup.com stuff, but that's often geared towards
>> conversation, i.e at least intermediate speakers. You can always get a
>> study group started up :)
>>
>> - Sean
>>
>> On Saturday, June 28, 2014, Colin Flaherty <cflahertysf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >  Hi everyone,
>> >
>> >  As someone who doesn't know ANY German (yet), would the Thursday night
>> > meetup be a good place to start learning it? Or is it more geared to
>> those
>> > with some experience?
>> >
>> >  Thanks!
>> >
>> >  Colin
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