no question, just overwhelmed

Oh my word, just looked at the grammar lesson on Adjectives in Nominative and accusative. Frankly just puts me into panic mode. In many ways am just tempted to look at grammar lessons as speaking practice and vocabulary, as keeping track of it when there is so much diversity in the sentences. Meaning one definate article is not tackled at a time, but all are lumped together. 

Back to book learning for me it is and will treat grammar lessons as practise and vocabulary. No program is perfect and I am okay with that. Rocket is still awesome and I feel a worthwhile investment

Sebongela

I came across this page on adjective endings:

https://germanwithlaura.com/adjective-endings/

Its supposed to be a simplified way of looking at the subject. I does cover dative and genitive as well which may be more than you want.

All the endings are boiled down  to one (fairly) simple chart.

Thanks sfpugh

Hope you are well and going full steam ahead in the German. I just need to broaden my horizons and use various text books. I find that the Rocket has just too much information in one go and I tend to then loose track of the whole picture. Which then just leads to confusion and frustration.  I have several text books, that are awesome, so just need to go through the exercises. I am a mix of an auditory and visual learner and writing things down helps. 

Back to the books

Have a good weekend

Sebongela

Am actually considering going to a language school in Germany for a bit, but don't want to deal with the whole rigamarole of Covid.

OK, I am hitting a bit of a flat spell at the moment as well. You are right, I sure going to Germany for a visit is the best way, although so many people speak good English that you hardly need to speak German at all.

My sister spent a year in Berlin when her husband had a contract there. She went to the Goethe school and found it very hard. She said they gave her long word lists to learn in a short time which is no so easy when you are no longer young.  She spent many months in Austria when she was young and already had quite good conversational German.

She didn't actually learn much German in the end as she was surrounded by English speakers most of the time. I guess the best thing might be to go to a rural area where there not many people speak English.

Have a good week end

SImon

Hi Sfpugh

When we went to Germany most people did speak German, but in several small towns I needed to speak. My German was very basic then, but managed to order sandwiches, tea and coffee for Philip. Wasn't too embarrasing. I would like to attend a language school that will teach me practical stuff and conversational language. More an immersion than long lists of tedious words I will never need.

Who knows what this year will bring and I would like to travel to Europe this year. Probably Portugal, as Philip will probably want to visit his siblings. Have no idea what the rules are for Covid testing now. Arriving in Canada now no testing, not sure if it is only for Canadians and some annoying app to fill in. I can live with that

Take care. By the way “Jaguar” on Nettflix is also dubbed in German and German sub titles. Very tense and I can only watch it in bits.

Sharon

Hi Sfpugh

Another thought. I find when I am overwhelmed and feeling unmotivated I change some of the focus.

I have mentioned Coffee Break Languages. In German now they have levell 3 and they have Travel Diaries and a German Magazine. No need to subscribe. Their podcasts are all free. The magazine discusses various issues and the Travel Magazine is a Travel diary. I enjoy them as they are lighthearted, but very good listening. Don't use them for german yet as too advanced, but use them for Italian. You may want to try them. Mostly about half an hour of listening.

Sharon

Thank you for the recommendation, I will certainly check out coffeebreak German. I had a look at Jaguar on Netflix, I didn't realise that it had a German version. I watched some of the first episode and it looks good.

If you haven't found it yet, Nicos Weg on Deutsche Welle is pretty good as a supplement to Rocket German. It has A1, A2 and B1 courses corresponding roughly to the 3 rocket Geman levels and each level has a many lessons consisitng of short film clips followed by questions and some grammar.

Maybe trying a different approach  for a bit will refresh you?

https://learngerman.dw.com/en/overview

There is other material on the page besides Nicos Weg.

Simon

Hi Sfpugh

I didn't know about the Deutsch Welle and have looked at it briefly. Looks good and a resource I will enjoy. I get bored with only one resource. The Coffee Break has a Reading Club. They send you a few paragraphs a week. Thematic. Starts with easy stuff and gets more complicated as weeks go by. So you will probably find the first ones a bit slow. You can subscribe, but to me it wasn't worth it. So you only get the text to read, not vocabulary and someone reading it. I can use a dictionery for that. I did subscribe to Travel and magazines in Italian and German. Just using Italian at this stage, as German still to advanced for me. There you get full notes, explanantions etc.

They do have a free trial, but not that easy to find. I have found the Italian ones amazing in increasing grammar and vocab understanding.

As for Jaguar, am listening in Italian with English subtitles. Find it riveting, but stressful, so watch in small bits and switch off when too stressful

Happy learning

Sharon

Hi Simon

Thank you for the Deutsche Welle. Decided to be brave and try the A1 test. Got 87% which really surprised me and thrilled me at the same time. A great motivator too. I am looking forward to using that as a resource too.

Sebongela

Congratulations! 

I enjoyed NicosWeg, it's about a young Spaniard who decides to make his life in Germany. He has to find somewhere to live, make friends, decide what to do with his life etc and of course - learn German.

I thought it complimented Rocket German and added variety.