Hey guys, I’ve just started learning German and looking for ever more ways to use and practice this (surprisingly) very fun language. I say surprisingly, as I had never thought that I’d one day be learning German, let alone thoroughly enjoying doing so.
I’m roughly 3 weeks in now, though due to my background with Dutch, have already got somewhat of a decent foundation in the basic framework of German. So far I’ve been working my way through
German Grammar Made Easy by Lisa Kahlen, which has been fine, though a bit too easy for me with my Dutch background. Nevertheless it’s been a good resource to practice accusative and dative cases with the various articles and pronouns and so on. It was the only grammar book my local library had, so I grabbed it. A good beginners book for A1 to A2 I’d say, and it’s been a good introduction for me to the differences between Dutch and German.
Apart from that I’ve simply been watching lots of videos on YouTube from
Easy German, which I think is an awesome channel and I really like what they’re doing. Also been watching lots of videos by
Learn German with Jenny, who covers all kinds of grammatical topics, love her stuff. And lastly have been reading articles and watching videos on
Deutsche Welle which I’m sure everyone’s already very familiar with. Also once my computer gets repaired, I’ll start a German Anki deck and will start working on my vocab.
I’ve just started writing in German in my
logbook, and always love people dropping by and interacting in German, or perhaps making some suggestions and corrections.
Excited to be starting my first new language in years and looking forward to improving my German with you all!