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FREE course “Deciphering German Grammar”: free.germanwithlaura.com/grammar
(UPDATED VERSION of “English Grammar for German Learners”)
1. Speak up and make sure you don't get bogged down by falling into the three most common traps German learners fall into.
2. Change your mindset to ensure you are on the right track to learning German as efficiently and effectively as possible.
3. Approach the most important topics of German grammar systematically.
4. Get concrete, practical tips on how you can continue to learn German smarter, not harder!
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JUMPING AROUND:
0:00:00 – 3 classic pitfalls
0:10:06 – 3 key solutions
0:16:41 – Gender of the noun*
0:32:09 – Noun plural forms**
0:44:50 – Case system
1:02:53 – Declensions
1:14:36 – Declination patterns
1:40:12 – Personal pronouns
1:58:32 – Word order
2:18:46 – Learning tips
2:40:52 – [BONUS] English grammar for German learners
Many German learners make the mistake of trying the “instant immersion approach,” which focuses on vocabulary and completely ignores German grammar.
These same students eventually discover that all the vocabulary in the world is relatively worthless without the grammar that holds it all together.
Your ADVANTAGE as an adult German learner is that you can ANALYZE grammar structures. This means you can understand how German works (it is often very different from English) in a FRACTION of the time you would otherwise spend.
The Pareto Principle, applied to German grammar, means that there are 20% of grammar topics that do 80% of the work for you! This is where you need to start. The BASICS. The BASICS.
In every aspect of your German learning, you need to work with PRINCIPLES and PATTERNS (our brains love this approach! It works!). When you understand the WHY, the HOW becomes much easier!
This video series (which is completely edited for your convenience!) will take you from the beginning of your German lessons, through the MOST IMPORTANT grammar topics you MUST UNDERSTAND, to a series of tips to help you continue learning German as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Get ready to boost your German lessons! It's time to LEARN GERMAN SMARTER, NOT HARDER.
I'll show you how!
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
* (Noun gender) At about 24 minutes, I mention that countries are a group of neuter nouns. There are exceptions! A handful of countries are masculine (e.g. Iraq). Some are feminine (e.g. Switzerland). Some are plural (e.g. the USA). But the DEFAULT FORM is neuter and this is important in all cases where you use a determinative or adjective before the country name (e.g. In French-speaking Canada, the dish /"poutine/" is very popular/").
** (NOUNS PLURAL) At about 35 minutes, I give two sets of examples of common nouns that take the plural "no change," but some of the nouns I highlighted were bad examples because *after* "getting off the train" at "Stop #1" (using my system, which you'll learn about in this video), these nouns are further moved to short, simple exception lists (which I don't explain in detail in the video, though).
Firstly, as mentioned, “Vater”, “Mutter”, “Bruder” and “Boden” do indeed have the invariable plural ending – BUT they also belong to a list of 24 nouns that additionally have an umlaut in the plural (Väter, Mütter, Brüder, Böden).
Finally, all feminine nouns ending in -el and -er (there are none ending in -en) must also get off at stop number 1 and take the ending "keine Änderung" as a first step… but then you learn (just not in this video!) that an "n" must also be added to this special body of nouns (from "Gabel" to "Gabeln", from "Schüssel" to "Schüsseln", from "Schwester" to "Schwestern").
Sorry! I'm sorry for not using clear examples and/or not clarifying the key nuances of the examples I used. But hopefully this all makes sense to you now. And REMEMBER: Learning smarter is always about learning the rule first and the exceptions second. 🙂
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