Julian yeah, Schwein ist auch hier in den Staaten günstiger. I mostly use pork as my protein. Only exception is Gulasch. I prefer Rindergulasch. Oh, und Rouladen!
im also following an english tuber that recently moved to finland from London. learning german is easy in comparison to finish. But now Silas seams more commited to learning german than last year.
The people saying "German is not easy" are probably those who haven't had latin at school, so they think that the German language is the hardest one, which though is simply wrong, because there are languages like finish or hungarian that are indeed more complicated than the easy German language in my opinion. So, you should learn the language you really love/like to learn. Then, of course every language is easy!
Silas, Mein Name ist Adrian. Ich wohne in Amerika mit meiner Familie. Ich lerne Deutsch seit 7 Monaten in der Schule und zuhause. Ich habe die 4 Fälle gelernt. Am Anfang war es sehr schwer, aber es wird einfacher und einfacher und macht viel Sinn. Es ist die Eltern weil alle Pluralformen die sind. So meine, deine. Viel Glück mit deinem Deutsch lernen von Amerika. 😊😊🍀
Wenn ich korrigieren darf: Hier hat das nichts mit der Pluralform zu tun. Es heißt hier "meine Eltern" weil es Nominativ ist. Wenn man es als Frage formuliert kann man sagen "Wer mag Bier?", Antwort: "Meine Eltern mögen Bier". "Meinen Eltern" ist Dativ und kann benutzt werden in Sätzen wie "Meinen Eltern gehört das Haus" oder, als Frage, "Wem gehört das Haus?" Zur Vollständigkeit: Genitivform ist "meiner Eltern" und Akkusativ "meinen Eltern". Ist wirklich schwer zu lernen und ich wüsste nicht ob/wie ich das schaffen würde wenn es nicht meine Mutterspräche wäre, also Respekt dafür, dass du nach nur 7 Monaten schon fehlerfrei deutsch schreiben kannst. Immer weiter so :D
_"Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl."_ Mark Twain
there are some rules, if you take a verb and transform it to a noun by adding the sufix -ung it is always feminin also i think all nouns ending with -keit are feminin and there are probably other rules aswell but yeah, for the most part, it is random xD
Ten quotes about German. Take your pick: 1. When one is polite in German, one lies. Goethe. 2. It describes things that have no name in English. 3. A young lady has no sex, but a turnip does. 4. German is only romantic if you have a past in it. 5. German is the language of poetry: angry, angry poetry. 6. Life is too short to learn German. 7. Learning German is what eternity is made for. 8. If I want to threaten someone or to speak harshly to them, I speak in German, for their entire language is threatening, rough and vehement. Emperor Charles V 9. Germans think that they're profound because their language is unclear; they lack the clarity of the French language, and it never conveys what it should, which means that no German knows what he actually wanted to say. My comment: if this were true, German would be used more often in diplomacy. 10. It might be hard, but it’s still more logical than English.
Silas, do your self a huge favor and get your meat at the Metzger. It's slightly more expensiv but waaaay better in terms of quality and overall bang for your buck! Greetings
Wow Silas, you've really picked up alot of German and gotten way more fluent this year. By the time summer is over you'll be even better and you didn't even have any proper lessons from a teacher or college course. Keep it going, you're doing very well!
Der, Die and Das is in the end not that important. We do understand you without the correct article. Just keep in mind that "Der" is the male form, "Die" is the female form and "Das" is the genderneutral form. Thats the theorety but there are nearly more irregular forms like "Der Tisch" than regular forms. But for the beginning you can go wih just keeping those three in mind. If you say for example "das Tisch" its very reasonable and nobody would judge you because a table is obviously gender neutral, just not for us Germans. :D But whatever its not that important after tall.
Words which end on "chen" are always genderneutral. This is one of the few rules you can trust absolutely. Anyway, I agree with Flonke. The one tip I always give people who try to learn German is not to worry too much about the article. No German will be angry with you if you get it wrong, and they will still understand you. The only way to learn them is just listen to German until they become second nature to you anyway.
Articles in German are absolutely important. The rule is to learn new vocabulary like nouns in German WITH THE corresponding ARTICLE. Sorry no shortcuts there. Thats the only way to do it. Otherwise he will not be able to form grammatically correct sentences when the articles are shifted in cases of Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akkusativ... Without the correct articles he will never make any progress to a more advanced level and sound forever like a cave man in German.
Don't forget that German isn't the only language that has different articles. Look at French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc... they all have the same struggle.
+ArmAd Spengler i agree with you on that point.. simply learning noun + article together is the only proper advice you can give foreigners, who try to learn german, and it's for sure much better than saying "oh just don't care, ignore it, it's not important" .. srsly, if you are a foreigner, who learns german ,and you are confused by the articles, simply learn noun+article
Best Way to learn the "der die das" words is to just try to speak German, and then being corrected immediately by someone who knows German. Important is that you are being corrected all the time. i know it can be kinda annoying, but it helps alot. I can hear that you make many mistakes like in 6:30 "die Grillmeister" and noone corrects you. (its DER Grillmeister, cause he is a male. DIE Grillmeisterin, for female btw)
But don't forget, that this is no formal rule. An example: The Table => Der Tisch. But the table is no living thing and has no gender by nature, it's just male in the german grammatic. So you can't deduce the correct german article from the natural gender of an object in every case. What others have written before about learning the article together with the noun seems to be the best way, atleast for me as an mothertongue german speaker. We don't learn systematical, grammatical rules for our own language, we have the luck to just grow up with it.
Duuuude, what?! Wait how long have you been in Germany again? Your German is really good, keep it up! :) Makes me really happy whenever I see someone diving into learning a language, it's such a rewarding experience.
Pro Tip: Think of the articles as part of the words when you learn new vocabulary. Remember them as if they were the first syllable. Two birds with one stone.
Do you already use the german audio track of your favorite movies. Especially, when you have films, you know (almost) by heart, that's a great way to learn. TV-shows for little kids (Sesame Street, ...) are famous for improving language skills as well.
German is really not that easy😂 however, i think irregular verbs like “laufen” are the most annoying. “laufen, läuft, lief” ...just changing all the vocals
The most foreigners (and sometimes even germans) have problems with der,die,das etc. But its not that "important", nobody will kill you if you use the wrong word.
Artikel(der die das) are important, because sometimes they change the meaning. But once you've rememberd all the articles the really hard thing is to get the cases right.(It's getting worse xD) Fun fact: Articles change depending on time. During the day: der Weizen, das Korn At evening/night: das Weizen, der Korn If you're alcoholic you always use the night-form.
i know you said you don't want to focus too hard on "der, die, das" at the moment, but i would highly recommend to simply learn the noun together with the article so instead of learning "tree" = "Baum" learn "the tree" = "der Baum" and so forth.. it's a tip most people give foreigners when learning german.. it for sure will not solve your problems with "mein, meine, dein, deine" and so on, but it will still be easier in the long run, if you simply learn noun+article
4 cases and so 4 forms for each kind of article, it is logical and easy: Nominativ - Genitiv - Dativ - Akkusativ Ein - eines - einem - einen Eine - einer - einer - eine Der - des - dem - den Die - der - der - die Das - des - dem - das That's it ;-) (for "my" or "your" just add an m or a d at the beginning of the word: mein - meines - meinem - meinen; meine - meiner - meiner - meine; dein - deines - ... and so on)
@@SELBLINK_in_your_area Sanskrit (Altindisch) hat immerhin 8 Fälle für den Singular, Dual und Plural! Die Fälle sind: Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akkusativ, Instrumentalis, Ablativ, Vokativ und Lokativ. Die slawischen Sprachen meistens 6 bis 7 Fälle.
Whenever you learn a new word, you should learn it together with the article. If you don't you, you wont really have learned the word and you will have to essentially relearn all those words later
I made the mistake of not taking the determiners serious enough when I started learning french. Believe me, you WILL regret this later. As excruiciating as it is now, keep up and make sure to always include the correct determiner. Of course, it also depends on what your proficiency goal is. If you're not planning on staying forever and no tests are taken (I will admit, I regretted it for the most part because it showed on my french grades later on in school) you can go on concentrating on the words themselves rather than the determiners. It might just happen, that people get confused about what you mean once you're at a level where you can maker longer sentences that include conjunctions.
The same thing happened to me when I took French. I took it for 10 years. But when I took Italian, I learned the correct articles and used what I knew in Italian to help me with French.
Hey sillas, i am german and i love learning languages and i am currently learning swedish. Last week i was in sweden for a week with my dad who is also learning swedish. And we dont learn grammar at all we just try to speak and sometimes the grammar is right and sometimes its wrong. But its not important to learn grammar to learn how to speak a language. Cuz you learned english as a kid and no one told you about grammar. You just heard what people say and you made mistake but since they talked without mistakes you could pick up thing that you made wrong and knew how to say them right. And in sweden i just talked and when i would make a mistake they would say like „hey that wrong“ maybe they would repeat the sentence in another way without the mistake. So when i would say „i want do eat meat“ i made a mistake with do and to they would say „oh i also want to eat meat“ so they said it right and i could here that they said it differently so i picked it up. What i wanna say is that you dont have to look super strict on grammar, as long as you understand the sentence and you can say it (no matter if with or without mistakes) you can talk to people. And this will always make you learn more. When you just focus on grammar you get frustrated and dont wanna learn anymore cuz you think you cant talk in that language even tho natives would totally understand you. So i like how you dont really care about the articles in front of the nouns cuz this will come to you when you talk.
A good advise that i have is to set your phone language to german cuz you usually know what to click on and in the same moment you learn more words of german. And when you google something the results are german so you can try to understand them and if you dont understand it you just search for english results
Video starts and I know why you are frustated just by seeing the Thumbnail. Good luck ma boi, German isn't easy but in the end der, die, das, ein, eine sounds so much better compared to just one word like the 'the'. German is called the language of poets Keep that in mind.🔥
I love that about German. These days languages have the trend to become more and more simple. So In my opinion rare words and details are so imporant and make not only the specific language unique but also the precision which one can express themselves very valuable.
You can Visit , the Kaufland Supermarket , it’s a supermarket with friendly workers , and a large selection . Also , Lidl is a great . Your videos are pretty good , keep it up !
Hi, Silas! I am an American who speaks German. I have been learning for about two years, but now I can finally say that I understand and communicate just about everything in German, motivating me to also learn other languages. I have been watching your videos for a while now. In ways, it reminds me of my long road to learn German. I would just like to give you a few things which I would have wanted to know in the beginning. My goal is not to come across as arrogant or critical, but rather direct in a helpful way. Firstly, I would like to commend your efforts for speaking German -- not worrying about any mistakes. That is quite admirable. However, you have said "the only way to learn is through speaking." I understand your reasoning behind this: you need to communicate in your surroundings. While important, you are looking at the situation from the wrong viewpoint. You cannot practice what you do not know. In other words, you cannot really speak as your goals suggest if you cannot understand. Further, you mentioned that you still cannot understand spoken German much. I was in the same place. Just as you put in time to practice football, you must devote time. Listening cannot be avoided. Your learning will come from listening and reading, not by grammar exercises, vocabulary flashcards or even speaking German at restaurants. Listening comprehensible input is the key. You must have input (reading or listening) for your desired *output*. The news will not help you right now because you have not had enough input yet. This is a gradual process. You must work your way to understanding. Remember immersion does not mean just living in a country. It means gradually surrounding yourself in situations where you understand part, but striving towards the whole. I have used tons of free content to learn German from zero to an advanced fluency. I'd be happy to give you some website links. Also, I'd love to talk to you sometime about my experience learning German. (I love helping people find success and joy in languages). Don't give up! God bless you and Kaitlyn! P.S. The declensions of adjectives (die, der, das and mein, meine, meines, etc.) should fall into place rather easily when you are exposed to enough comprehensible input.
5Andysalive To be honest German is only considered a mid-difficulty leveled language, there are many other languages that are much harder than German, namely languages like Polish and Hungarian
go to a real butcher, I'm sure edeka or something like that have one with fresh meat - there you can order beef or what ever you like. but it will be a bit more expensive
Ich gebe einem syrischen Mädchen Nachhilfe und wir sind gerade dabei, die Veränderung der Artikel je nach Fall anzuschauen...Das ist für sie sehr schwer, da es in Arabisch auch nur einen Artikel gibt.
Sometimes you say Gute Nacht and pronounce it like Gute Nackt. Nacht is the night (like you already know) but Nackt means actually naked. Everyone understands what you want to say and your german has improved very well, but you could try focussing a bit more on the ch sounds. So I would say in the this case you would try to do the sound you make when you gather the spit before you spit it out. I guess you already know what sound I'm talking about. Have a nice day :D
Hey, we need something to make us notice who's a native speaker and who's not, so we came up with der, die, das :D Just accept right now that you'll never get them right all the time because there's not really a way to know them all if it's not your first langugage. But it also doesn't really matter anyway. Meinen, einen, etc are posessive pronouns. You'll get there in time, it's not that hard, really :) Nice to see you're using Duolingo like I suggested :D
if i can give u a little tip to learn german... my family had several foreign exchange students and trust me when I tell you: learn the pronouns correctly right away... you will never get used to them if u learn them wrong first.
As someone whose first language is English, I totally sympathise with Silas on this one. Firstly, why does every noun have to have a sex? For example - der Teppich! What is masculine about a carpet? Die Kreide - what is feminine about a piece of chalk? And then the definite and indefinite articles change according to the function of the word in the sentence e.g. die Frau can become der Frau e.g. ich ging mit der Frau. Then there's all the adjectival endings! AAAARGH! Don't get me wrong, I love German but OMG the grammar is hard work! Germans just seem to magically know it all! :) I don't blame Silas for focusing, at least for now, on being understood when he speaks German, and not worrying if he gets the grammar wrong, because that's exactly what I do! :)
yo silas to be honest u r the nicest murican (i know it's spelled american) i've ever seen. i like how u say kein problem even if u pronounce problem wrong. i see u r using duolingo. that's the best site for learning different languages. i'm currently learning spanish. keep it up! peace out!
Well "der Kiefer" is "the jawbone" and "die Kiefer" is "the pine" so in some cases the article (that's what the thing in front of the noun is called) is important. But this is really just in very few cases...
Yep articles can be a pain in the a.. for learners! It's really best to learn them along with the respective nouns, but there are also some rules as to which nouns usually feature certain articles. In case you wanna learn more: th-cam.com/video/dAT-QTWKkg8/w-d-xo.html :) Your German has really improved a lot!
Yeah it's really difficult. For example it's " MEINE Eltern mögen das" but when you want to say that you're for example giving your parents smt than it's " ich gebe das MEINEN Eltern"
Das ist, damit wir Deutschen besser die Fremden erkennen können. Wie soll man sonst wissen, wer Ausländer ist? Bei Afrikanern usw. ist das noch relativ einfach, aber stell dir mal vor, man hetzt gegen Migranten und vergisst die Franzosen und Belgier dabei ... wäre ungerecht.
My english cousin is living in germany over 20 year now and he still gets the der-die-das wrong some times. Realy tough part. I'm very glad that I grew up with two languages. Bless up dude.
Three barbecues in two days; pork steak for four euros; so much met which you eat an the quality of it is so less. Where are vegetables and fruit? Every met you need for barbecue is produced in factory farms. The animals don't see daylight in their life. Think about it
Declination of articles is very hard in German ,.....teaching my husband to learn proper German took some time! You’re already doing pretty good.....keep on practicing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I watched Babylon Berlin on Netflix in German with English subtitles. Although my German is practically nil, I sometimes could understand a sentence or two without reading the subtitle. I'd still read the subtitle to verify that I was correct.
I would like to hear you say "schön" please focus on that and for conner "übe ". Btw your german in general is getting better every day. Nice to see that
Your Merch is briliant. Did you ever try "Amerikaner" in the bakery? You should try them and make a shirt with "Das ist ein Amerikaner" with a picture of one of this biscuits things. Because your shirt would say "this is an american" which is true on both sides, because you are an american and the biscuit is called an american, too :D
Hey Silas you have to visit me in my Bundesland called Saarland. We have a really traditional way to do barbecue. Its called "Schwenken" and its by far the best way to grill meat! ;)
I think some knowledge about grammatical terms may help you with some parts of German. Obviously, our article system is almost completely random and there is no trick other than learning all of them by heart, but when it comes to "mein, meine, meines, meinen, meinem", which are possesive pronouns, there really is a system to it, which is connected to our cases. So you can really look at declination tables and these things will start to make sense.
Guys i have a question :) When someone is asking me something like ‘Did you sleep enough last night’ and I only answer with Yes or No instead of Yes i did or no i didn’t... Is this rude for english people?? Hab neulich iwas darüber gelesen :) vl weiß da jemand bescheid 🤣
Unfreundlich wäre übertrieben... Das ist ja so eine typische Smalltalkfrage und wenn du nur ja oder nein antwortest, dann ist das Gespräch ja vorbei. Grundsätzlich erwartet dein Gegenüber, dass du auf die Frage aufbaust.... Genauso wie im Deutschen ;)
I am a German and currently working in Switzerland for some weeks. If they don't extra try to speak high german to me I understand absolutely nothing. It's like they speak a completely different language.
hey silas some advice from a professional german chef if you like the cheap pork cuts in germany that much you really should try the good stuff from a butcher sometime in the future those packed up pork steaks are usually of a lower quality and the animals didnt get good food and were mostly just born and fed as fast as possible so they never could develop good flavor thats why they are marinated that much to make up for that missing flavor
The girl on the phone said "Rudolphsplatz". Rudolphsplatz in Marburg, there you go: www.google.com/maps/place/Rudolphspl.,+35037+Marburg/@50.808601,8.7678057,16.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x47bc6280a5edc883:0x96402c4e1b43c16a!8m2!3d50.808246!4d8.7724453
Die Frau hat blonde Haare. Aber die Tasche der Frau ist schwarz. Die Hose ist blau. Es ist ein Fleck auf der Hose. Die Zahnbürste ist neu. Es ist Zahnpasta auf der Zahnbürste. ... there are so many other examples of this situation. I can imagine how confusing it is. I can't really explain why it is how it is, we just learned it. For me prepositions in Englisch are something I will probably never really learn because there is also no strict rule. But we will understand you even with such little mistakes and hopefully no one is gonna laugh because it is hard to learn a new language and everyone should know this.
Alter 1kg Fleisch... Wie viel willst du bitte essen xD Und nur für 6,66 mal wieder pervers die Preise in Deutschland. Manchmal schon ekelhaft wie günstig Fleisch manchmal ist. Vor allem wenn es im Sale ist.
Your German is good👍 Deutsche Sprache schwere Sprache Ich bin aus Deutschland, aber mache so oft Fehler mit der Zeichensetzung.... 😂(That's in German) I shouldn't just talk ... My English is very bad and in German I sometimes make a lot of mistakes ... I don't know what's wrong with me, so I don't talk soooo often with friends. 😂😂🤔
you are busy making progress in German. I feel that you got talent for languages. You are right: don't think about "deinen, deinem, deines, deine, deiner".. just try to understand the words.. the finishing will come automatically later on.
I actually don't find this aspect of German that hard, because I know I am definitely gonna make mistakes anyways. For gender I guess there are no shortcuts unfortunately. One strategy I use is using association. For example "der Mann läuft nackt in den Wald", because I know the man is masculine and I use that to associate with forest (I've heard the more explicit or personal the image you create the better the association for the memory), plus their plural matches. If I feel lazy I just tend to highlight the vocabulary blue for masculine nouns. I find your sticker labeling method pretty neat, so I can use different colored stickers for different genders. For cases, all I did was that I need to memorize the 4x4 adjective table (actually only 3x4) because I actually don't care too much about the genitive case. Then, whenever I am stuck I don't really need to look up tables again and again which can be so annoying. You can use a song call "das doofe Fischlied" to help you memorize the case ending which shouldn't be very challenging. And you are right, you shouldn't focus too much just on nouns, there are so many other annoying aspects about German like reverse verbs, such as "uns fällt was ein", and German numbers and German Pronouns which I find it extremely annoying.
Your German has improved a lot, to the point where you can handle most situations without english.
Feels good, doesn't it? ;D
Looks like Duolingo.
I’m late, but it is actually duolingo
Deutsche Sprache - schwere Sprach. Ein einziger Buchstabendreher und der ganze Satz ist uriniert.
Bente XD you sir just won this comment section in my eyes 🤣
Ich dachte schon lern erstmal Deutsch hahaha
dasselbe gilt für Kommas:
"Wir essen Opa" oder "Wir essen, Opa"
Ikxi *Kommata, Kommas gibt es nicht lul
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The main question I'm aksing myself is what happend to your Putenschnitzel? :D
this needs to be a shirt
Silas really forgot the theme of his video. Poor chickens.
Jonas hätte er auch einfach grillen können
Wie meinst du? Jonas sollte gegrillt werden. Schrecklich. Und dann haben wir noch immer diese Puten die auf ein Antwort warten!
Bettina G hätte er gut machen können nur er wollte ja unbedingt eine Bratpfanne haben :D
Pork is cheaper than beef thats why its more eaten. Go to the "Metzger" and get ur meat there, the quality is much better.
Julian yeah, Schwein ist auch hier in den Staaten günstiger. I mostly use pork as my protein. Only exception is Gulasch. I prefer Rindergulasch. Oh, und Rouladen!
*eaten more 😜
Zac Saleski I would have gone with consumed more but we all know what Julian meant to say.
I know right lol I just had to be that guy
Qta I admit pigs can be bad, but have you ever lived on a farm and seen what chickens eat?
boyyyy you're getting better and better. that's awesomeeee
German is not that easy 😄
Catisfy Bidi es kann leicht sein wenn man in deutschland geboren ist xD
im also following an english tuber that recently moved to finland from London. learning german is easy in comparison to finish.
But now Silas seams more commited to learning german than last year.
Der Noobedynoobnoob true
Torben Johansen Finnish is well know hard 😄
The people saying "German is not easy" are probably those who haven't had latin at school, so they think that the German language is the hardest one, which though is simply wrong, because there are languages like finish or hungarian that are indeed more complicated than the easy German language in my opinion. So, you should learn the language you really love/like to learn. Then, of course every language is easy!
Silas, Mein Name ist Adrian. Ich wohne in Amerika mit meiner Familie. Ich lerne Deutsch seit 7 Monaten in der Schule und zuhause. Ich habe die 4 Fälle gelernt. Am Anfang war es sehr schwer, aber es wird einfacher und einfacher und macht viel Sinn. Es ist die Eltern weil alle Pluralformen die sind. So meine, deine. Viel Glück mit deinem Deutsch lernen von Amerika. 😊😊🍀
Wenn ich korrigieren darf: Hier hat das nichts mit der Pluralform zu tun.
Es heißt hier "meine Eltern" weil es Nominativ ist. Wenn man es als Frage formuliert kann man sagen "Wer mag Bier?", Antwort: "Meine Eltern mögen Bier".
"Meinen Eltern" ist Dativ und kann benutzt werden in Sätzen wie "Meinen Eltern gehört das Haus" oder, als Frage, "Wem gehört das Haus?"
Zur Vollständigkeit: Genitivform ist "meiner Eltern" und Akkusativ "meinen Eltern".
Ist wirklich schwer zu lernen und ich wüsste nicht ob/wie ich das schaffen würde wenn es nicht meine Mutterspräche wäre, also Respekt dafür, dass du nach nur 7 Monaten schon fehlerfrei deutsch schreiben kannst. Immer weiter so :D
Your german is really good👍🏽
Romy H My german sucks. 😂 that's a year of learning 😶
Adrian Pratt in deinem Text ist kein einziger Rechtschreib oder Grammatikfehler - in your text are no spelling errors or grammatical errors
Romy H Kein?!?!?! Woah.. Das ist die erste Zeit..
_"Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl."_ Mark Twain
Didnt he also say: "life is too short to learn german?"
there are some rules, if you take a verb and transform it to a noun by adding the sufix -ung it is always feminin
also i think all nouns ending with -keit are feminin and there are probably other rules aswell
but yeah, for the most part, it is random xD
das war Oscar Wilde :)
Ten quotes about German. Take your pick:
1. When one is polite in German, one lies. Goethe.
2. It describes things that have no name in English.
3. A young lady has no sex, but a turnip does.
4. German is only romantic if you have a past in it.
5. German is the language of poetry: angry, angry poetry.
6. Life is too short to learn German.
7. Learning German is what eternity is made for.
8. If I want to threaten someone or to speak harshly to them, I speak in German, for their entire language is threatening, rough and vehement. Emperor Charles V
9. Germans think that they're profound because their language is unclear; they lack the clarity of the French language, and it never conveys what it should, which means that no German knows what he actually wanted to say. My comment: if this were true, German would be used more often in diplomacy.
10. It might be hard, but it’s still more logical than English.
Silas, do your self a huge favor and get your meat at the Metzger. It's slightly more expensiv but waaaay better in terms of quality and overall bang for your buck!
Greetings
Toni Esteban bang you got a good point there!
Ronny Radig Thx for the correction. :)
...Die Amis essen doch zu Hause auch genmanipuliertes Fleisch...da können sie auch unser Discounterzeugs essen.
Wow Silas, you've really picked up alot of German and gotten way more fluent this year. By the time summer is over you'll be even better and you didn't even have any proper lessons from a teacher or college course. Keep it going, you're doing very well!
Der, Die and Das is in the end not that important. We do understand you without the correct article. Just keep in mind that "Der" is the male form, "Die" is the female form and "Das" is the genderneutral form. Thats the theorety but there are nearly more irregular forms like "Der Tisch" than regular forms. But for the beginning you can go wih just keeping those three in mind. If you say for example "das Tisch" its very reasonable and nobody would judge you because a table is obviously gender neutral, just not for us Germans. :D But whatever its not that important after tall.
Flonke das Mädchen..
Words which end on "chen" are always genderneutral. This is one of the few rules you can trust absolutely. Anyway, I agree with Flonke. The one tip I always give people who try to learn German is not to worry too much about the article. No German will be angry with you if you get it wrong, and they will still understand you. The only way to learn them is just listen to German until they become second nature to you anyway.
Articles in German are absolutely important. The rule is to learn new vocabulary like nouns in German WITH THE corresponding ARTICLE. Sorry no shortcuts there. Thats the only way to do it. Otherwise he will not be able to form grammatically correct sentences when the articles are shifted in cases of Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akkusativ... Without the correct articles he will never make any progress to a more advanced level and sound forever like a cave man in German.
Don't forget that German isn't the only language that has different articles. Look at French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc... they all have the same struggle.
+ArmAd Spengler i agree with you on that point.. simply learning noun + article together is the only proper advice you can give foreigners, who try to learn german, and it's for sure much better than saying "oh just don't care, ignore it, it's not important" .. srsly, if you are a foreigner, who learns german ,and you are confused by the articles, simply learn noun+article
third barbecue in 2 days? You're living my dream :D
No Meat sweats here lol
that's what we call the german dream xD
forget money and success, a barbecue every second day and you are set for life #LifeGoals
Best Way to learn the "der die das" words is to just try to speak German, and then being corrected immediately by someone who knows German. Important is that you are being corrected all the time. i know it can be kinda annoying, but it helps alot.
I can hear that you make many mistakes like in 6:30 "die Grillmeister" and noone corrects you. (its DER Grillmeister, cause he is a male. DIE Grillmeisterin, for female btw)
But don't forget, that this is no formal rule.
An example: The Table => Der Tisch.
But the table is no living thing and has no gender by nature, it's just male in the german grammatic.
So you can't deduce the correct german article from the natural gender of an object in every case.
What others have written before about learning the article together with the noun seems to be the best way, atleast for me as an mothertongue german speaker.
We don't learn systematical, grammatical rules for our own language, we have the luck to just grow up with it.
Duuuude, what?! Wait how long have you been in Germany again? Your German is really good, keep it up! :) Makes me really happy whenever I see someone diving into learning a language, it's such a rewarding experience.
Pro Tip: Think of the articles as part of the words when you learn new vocabulary. Remember them as if they were the first syllable. Two birds with one stone.
Do you already use the german audio track of your favorite movies. Especially, when you have films, you know (almost) by heart, that's a great way to learn. TV-shows for little kids (Sesame Street, ...) are famous for improving language skills as well.
Dont buy that cheap crap, go to a Butcher and buy a good steak!
German mentality is like... get a barbecue grill for 900 € and meat for 1,50 €...
German is really not that easy😂 however, i think irregular verbs like “laufen” are the most annoying. “laufen, läuft, lief” ...just changing all the vocals
in english irregular verbs are even worse... go went gone, put put put etc
Rakonax true :D
The most foreigners (and sometimes even germans) have problems with der,die,das etc. But its not that "important", nobody will kill you if you use the wrong word.
Stuart Ginty Kommt drauf an, in Bayern geht beides (Dialekt und so)
unless you try to speak english and mix up there, their and they're
Zac Saleski Don't forget your and you're, lie and lay, sit and set, who and whom (the only remaining example of case in English, I think).
Es gibt da völlig korrekte Satzkonstruktionen: Frankfurt ist größer als Wiesbaden…
Ganz einfache Regel: Bei Vergleichen in der Grundform "wie" und bei Vergleichen im Komparativ "als".
I've subscribed to you with less than 10,000 subs, and now you have almost 140000. Time flies so fast
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Artikel(der die das) are important, because sometimes they change the meaning. But once you've rememberd all the articles the really hard thing is to get the cases right.(It's getting worse xD)
Fun fact: Articles change depending on time.
During the day: der Weizen, das Korn
At evening/night: das Weizen, der Korn
If you're alcoholic you always use the night-form.
i know you said you don't want to focus too hard on "der, die, das" at the moment, but i would highly recommend to simply learn the noun together with the article
so instead of learning "tree" = "Baum" learn "the tree" = "der Baum" and so forth.. it's a tip most people give foreigners when learning german.. it for sure will not solve your problems with "mein, meine, dein, deine" and so on, but it will still be easier in the long run, if you simply learn noun+article
But when der Baum turns into dem Baum or den Baum depending on how it's used in a sentence....that's what makes English speakers shake their heads.
4 cases and so 4 forms for each kind of article, it is logical and easy:
Nominativ - Genitiv - Dativ - Akkusativ
Ein - eines - einem - einen
Eine - einer - einer - eine
Der - des - dem - den
Die - der - der - die
Das - des - dem - das
That's it ;-)
(for "my" or "your" just add an m or a d at the beginning of the word: mein - meines - meinem - meinen; meine - meiner - meiner - meine; dein - deines - ... and so on)
@@SELBLINK_in_your_area Sanskrit (Altindisch) hat immerhin 8 Fälle für den Singular, Dual und Plural! Die Fälle sind: Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akkusativ, Instrumentalis, Ablativ, Vokativ und Lokativ. Die slawischen Sprachen meistens 6 bis 7 Fälle.
Whenever you learn a new word, you should learn it together with the article. If you don't you, you wont really have learned the word and you will have to essentially relearn all those words later
I made the mistake of not taking the determiners serious enough when I started learning french. Believe me, you WILL regret this later. As excruiciating as it is now, keep up and make sure to always include the correct determiner. Of course, it also depends on what your proficiency goal is. If you're not planning on staying forever and no tests are taken (I will admit, I regretted it for the most part because it showed on my french grades later on in school) you can go on concentrating on the words themselves rather than the determiners. It might just happen, that people get confused about what you mean once you're at a level where you can maker longer sentences that include conjunctions.
The same thing happened to me when I took French. I took it for 10 years. But when I took Italian, I learned the correct articles and used what I knew in Italian to help me with French.
Hey sillas, i am german and i love learning languages and i am currently learning swedish. Last week i was in sweden for a week with my dad who is also learning swedish. And we dont learn grammar at all we just try to speak and sometimes the grammar is right and sometimes its wrong. But its not important to learn grammar to learn how to speak a language. Cuz you learned english as a kid and no one told you about grammar. You just heard what people say and you made mistake but since they talked without mistakes you could pick up thing that you made wrong and knew how to say them right. And in sweden i just talked and when i would make a mistake they would say like „hey that wrong“ maybe they would repeat the sentence in another way without the mistake. So when i would say „i want do eat meat“ i made a mistake with do and to they would say „oh i also want to eat meat“ so they said it right and i could here that they said it differently so i picked it up.
What i wanna say is that you dont have to look super strict on grammar, as long as you understand the sentence and you can say it (no matter if with or without mistakes) you can talk to people. And this will always make you learn more. When you just focus on grammar you get frustrated and dont wanna learn anymore cuz you think you cant talk in that language even tho natives would totally understand you.
So i like how you dont really care about the articles in front of the nouns cuz this will come to you when you talk.
A good advise that i have is to set your phone language to german cuz you usually know what to click on and in the same moment you learn more words of german. And when you google something the results are german so you can try to understand them and if you dont understand it you just search for english results
Die Artikel lernst du im Laufe der Zeit. Die Artikel sind nicht so wichtig wenn der Rest Sinn ergibt.
Hey bro I heard your backstory and was sent here you are a good dude
Video starts and I know why you are frustated just by seeing the Thumbnail. Good luck ma boi, German isn't easy but in the end der, die, das, ein, eine sounds so much better compared to just one word like the 'the'. German is called the language of poets Keep that in mind.🔥
Well I would have the same struggle as Silas, if I wouldnt be born in Germany xd
german language almost teases you as if it looks easy to learn but when you get in the thick of it, it turns out to be tough
There is a reason why German is one of the hardest languages to learn.
But having der, die, das, dem, den, etc. is simply so inefficient, when all of that can be replaced with one word: the. ;)
blue_pearl_22 Not really, its easier to learn than many others
I love pickle.Don‘t know why.All of you three
I love that about German. These days languages have the trend to become more and more simple. So In my opinion rare words and details are so imporant and make not only the specific language unique but also the precision which one can express themselves very valuable.
You can Visit , the Kaufland Supermarket , it’s a supermarket with friendly workers , and a large selection .
Also , Lidl is a great .
Your videos are pretty good , keep it up !
Hi, Silas! I am an American who speaks German. I have been learning for about two years, but now I can finally say that I understand and communicate just about everything in German, motivating me to also learn other languages.
I have been watching your videos for a while now. In ways, it reminds me of my long road to learn German. I would just like to give you a few things which I would have wanted to know in the beginning. My goal is not to come across as arrogant or critical, but rather direct in a helpful way.
Firstly, I would like to commend your efforts for speaking German -- not worrying about any mistakes. That is quite admirable. However, you have said "the only way to learn is through speaking." I understand your reasoning behind this: you need to communicate in your surroundings. While important, you are looking at the situation from the wrong viewpoint. You cannot practice what you do not know. In other words, you cannot really speak as your goals suggest if you cannot understand.
Further, you mentioned that you still cannot understand spoken German much. I was in the same place. Just as you put in time to practice football, you must devote time. Listening cannot be avoided. Your learning will come from listening and reading, not by grammar exercises, vocabulary flashcards or even speaking German at restaurants.
Listening comprehensible input is the key. You must have input (reading or listening) for your desired *output*. The news will not help you right now because you have not had enough input yet. This is a gradual process. You must work your way to understanding.
Remember immersion does not mean just living in a country. It means gradually surrounding yourself in situations where you understand part, but striving towards the whole.
I have used tons of free content to learn German from zero to an advanced fluency. I'd be happy to give you some website links. Also, I'd love to talk to you sometime about my experience learning German. (I love helping people find success and joy in languages). Don't give up!
God bless you and Kaitlyn!
P.S. The declensions of adjectives (die, der, das and mein, meine, meines, etc.) should fall into place rather easily when you are exposed to enough comprehensible input.
Ever read Mark Twains "The awful german language"?
And he knew what he was talking about, speaking it pretty well himself.
5Andysalive To be honest German is only considered a mid-difficulty leveled language, there are many other languages that are much harder than German, namely languages like Polish and Hungarian
go to a real butcher, I'm sure edeka or something like that have one with fresh meat - there you can order beef or what ever you like. but it will be a bit more expensive
For good meat, go to a wellknown butcher, or a more expansive supermarket, best meat. Sometimes they have it cheaper.
3:56 er sagte "schmutzig" und plötzlich fängt mein Amazon Echo an mir zu erklären, was der "schmutzige Krieg ist"... 😂😂
Ich gebe einem syrischen Mädchen Nachhilfe und wir sind gerade dabei, die Veränderung der Artikel je nach Fall anzuschauen...Das ist für sie sehr schwer, da es in Arabisch auch nur einen Artikel gibt.
7:18 "... bin blau und die Dame dito - ohhh, hübsches Ding, ich versteck mein' Ehering~"
Boah danke ich habe es schon x mal durchgespielt und nichts gerallt😂😂🙇♂️
Bruder Gustavo Stets zu Diensten 😂
4:11 I'm dying😂😂😂
Sometimes you say Gute Nacht and pronounce it like Gute Nackt. Nacht is the night (like you already know) but Nackt means actually naked. Everyone understands what you want to say and your german has improved very well, but you could try focussing a bit more on the ch sounds. So I would say in the this case you would try to do the sound you make when you gather the spit before you spit it out. I guess you already know what sound I'm talking about.
Have a nice day :D
Cool bleiben - in die Ruhe liegt dem Kraft!
Hey, we need something to make us notice who's a native speaker and who's not, so we came up with der, die, das :D Just accept right now that you'll never get them right all the time because there's not really a way to know them all if it's not your first langugage. But it also doesn't really matter anyway.
Meinen, einen, etc are posessive pronouns. You'll get there in time, it's not that hard, really :)
Nice to see you're using Duolingo like I suggested :D
Egg wash the schnitzel and put it in a panade (bread crumbs or so) and then fry it in the pan and season it with salt and pepper
4:02 do .. you .. like .. SCHNITZEL! hahahaha caitlyn is awesome
The right use of the "Artikel" are the differenz between speak german or speak a good german
if i can give u a little tip to learn german... my family had several foreign exchange students and trust me when I tell you: learn the pronouns correctly right away... you will never get used to them if u learn them wrong first.
Even I mix up all articles and am german. You are not the only one, dont worry.
As someone whose first language is English, I totally sympathise with Silas on this one. Firstly, why does every noun have to have a sex? For example - der Teppich! What is masculine about a carpet? Die Kreide - what is feminine about a piece of chalk? And then the definite and indefinite articles change according to the function of the word in the sentence e.g. die Frau can become der Frau e.g. ich ging mit der Frau. Then there's all the adjectival endings! AAAARGH! Don't get me wrong, I love German but OMG the grammar is hard work! Germans just seem to magically know it all! :)
I don't blame Silas for focusing, at least for now, on being understood when he speaks German, and not worrying if he gets the grammar wrong, because that's exactly what I do! :)
yo silas to be honest u r the nicest murican (i know it's spelled american) i've ever seen. i like how u say kein problem even if u pronounce problem wrong. i see u r using duolingo. that's the best site for learning different languages. i'm currently learning spanish. keep it up! peace out!
Well "der Kiefer" is "the jawbone" and "die Kiefer" is "the pine" so in some cases the article (that's what the thing in front of the noun is called) is important.
But this is really just in very few cases...
Yep articles can be a pain in the a.. for learners! It's really best to learn them along with the respective nouns, but there are also some rules as to which nouns usually feature certain articles. In case you wanna learn more: th-cam.com/video/dAT-QTWKkg8/w-d-xo.html :) Your German has really improved a lot!
Yeah it's really difficult. For example it's " MEINE Eltern mögen das" but when you want to say that you're for example giving your parents smt than it's " ich gebe das MEINEN Eltern"
As a German I don’t understand why „der Tisch“ has a male article.. it’s a thing! German is stupid
Das ist, damit wir Deutschen besser die Fremden erkennen können. Wie soll man sonst wissen, wer Ausländer ist? Bei Afrikanern usw. ist das noch relativ einfach, aber stell dir mal vor, man hetzt gegen Migranten und vergisst die Franzosen und Belgier dabei ... wäre ungerecht.
Hallo Silas, youre using what application/internet site 5:09 to learn the German language? Thank you.
I’m from Germany and I like your videos they’re very nice haha German is really hard to learn but never give up😋
you should visit a german class ;) it will help you a lot with your german :)
My english cousin is living in germany over 20 year now and he still gets the der-die-das wrong some times. Realy tough part.
I'm very glad that I grew up with two languages. Bless up dude.
Im living in Marburg too😍😍
Hahah vllt sehe ich dich ja mal hehe:)
Three barbecues in two days; pork steak for four euros; so much met which you eat an the quality of it is so less. Where are vegetables and fruit?
Every met you need for barbecue is produced in factory farms. The animals don't see daylight in their life. Think about it
PS: a Schnitzel should be thin. For this lay a kitchen foil over the meat and smash on it with a pan.
Rudolphsplatz is the big road intersection in the center of Marburg where the cinema is.
Declination of articles is very hard in German ,.....teaching my husband to learn proper German took some time! You’re already doing pretty good.....keep on practicing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
"Haben sie ein Bratpfanne?" XD
Wow rain. In Northwestern Germany I haven't seen rain in over a month.
Your German is getting really good... to Dutch ears that is. Btw, Dutch is like German minus der/die/das, meine/meiner/meinen cruelty (sorta)
I watched Babylon Berlin on Netflix in German with English subtitles. Although my German is practically nil, I sometimes could understand a sentence or two without reading the subtitle. I'd still read the subtitle to verify that I was correct.
With kaitlyn sabotage it sounded like "Do you like"schnitzel" your parents" xD
I would like to hear you say "schön" please focus on that and for conner "übe ". Btw your german in general is getting better every day. Nice to see that
Sehr gut👍
Your Merch is briliant. Did you ever try "Amerikaner" in the bakery? You should try them and make a shirt with "Das ist ein Amerikaner" with a picture of one of this biscuits things.
Because your shirt would say "this is an american" which is true on both sides, because you are an american and the biscuit is called an american, too :D
Good idea / Gute Idee !
Hey Silas you have to visit me in my Bundesland called Saarland.
We have a really traditional way to do barbecue. Its called "Schwenken" and its by far the best way to grill meat! ;)
*2:38** :D ma boy Conner*
Cool to see you using Duolingo! Keep the German up - sounds great already 👍
I think some knowledge about grammatical terms may help you with some parts of German. Obviously, our article system is almost completely random and there is no trick other than learning all of them by heart, but when it comes to "mein, meine, meines, meinen, meinem", which are possesive pronouns, there really is a system to it, which is connected to our cases. So you can really look at declination tables and these things will start to make sense.
"Gute nackt..." 😂😂😂
It is easier to learn the the words with the right articles right away
Which size in football (aka soccer) shirts do you have? Maybe I have one for you ;)
The song the girls were singing is "Seeed-Ding"
Thx and bye :)
Stay with"the" its fine
Guys i have a question :)
When someone is asking me something like ‘Did you sleep enough last night’ and I only answer with Yes or No instead of Yes i did or no i didn’t... Is this rude for english people??
Hab neulich iwas darüber gelesen :) vl weiß da jemand bescheid 🤣
Unfreundlich wäre übertrieben... Das ist ja so eine typische Smalltalkfrage und wenn du nur ja oder nein antwortest, dann ist das Gespräch ja vorbei. Grundsätzlich erwartet dein Gegenüber, dass du auf die Frage aufbaust.... Genauso wie im Deutschen ;)
nope
Severride Naja immer ist eine Frage nicht aufbauend.. ich sag im deutschen oft nur ja oder nein :) aber ich versteh was du meinst! :) thanks!
i guess the reason why people eat morge pork here is, because beef costs around twice as much.
2:35 well that was unexpected xD laughed my ass off
swiss german is still harder than "real" german!:D
hipsterli i würd wük stärbe wenni frömdsprachler wär und müesst schwizzerdütsch lehre... mir aui so: grammatik? ussproch? meh aus 2 zitte?
I am a German and currently working in Switzerland for some weeks. If they don't extra try to speak high german to me I understand absolutely nothing. It's like they speak a completely different language.
hey silas some advice from a professional german chef if you like the cheap pork cuts in germany that much you really should try the good stuff from a butcher sometime in the future those packed up pork steaks are usually of a lower quality and the animals didnt get good food and were mostly just born and fed as fast as possible so they never could develop good flavor thats why they are marinated that much to make up for that missing flavor
The girl on the phone said "Rudolphsplatz".
Rudolphsplatz in Marburg, there you go: www.google.com/maps/place/Rudolphspl.,+35037+Marburg/@50.808601,8.7678057,16.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x47bc6280a5edc883:0x96402c4e1b43c16a!8m2!3d50.808246!4d8.7724453
Die Frau hat blonde Haare.
Aber die Tasche der Frau ist schwarz.
Die Hose ist blau.
Es ist ein Fleck auf der Hose.
Die Zahnbürste ist neu.
Es ist Zahnpasta auf der Zahnbürste.
... there are so many other examples of this situation. I can imagine how confusing it is. I can't really explain why it is how it is, we just learned it.
For me prepositions in Englisch are something I will probably never really learn because there is also no strict rule.
But we will understand you even with such little mistakes and hopefully no one is gonna laugh because it is hard to learn a new language and everyone should know this.
Alter 1kg Fleisch... Wie viel willst du bitte essen xD Und nur für 6,66 mal wieder pervers die Preise in Deutschland. Manchmal schon ekelhaft wie günstig Fleisch manchmal ist. Vor allem wenn es im Sale ist.
Conner ist immer gut drauf haha richtig sympathisch
DER, DIE, DAS... wieso, weshalb, warum? 😂
English Translation: "THE, THE, THE ... why, why, why?"
Isn't it obvious which language is the nicer one?
The butcher of your trust should have usually no issues to get beef brisket for you. Just the prices are pretty high for beef
Your German is good👍
Deutsche Sprache schwere Sprache
Ich bin aus Deutschland, aber mache so oft Fehler mit der Zeichensetzung.... 😂(That's in German)
I shouldn't just talk ... My English is very bad and in German I sometimes make a lot of mistakes ... I don't know what's wrong with me, so I don't talk soooo often with friends. 😂😂🤔
The beat in the background at around 6:06 is from Felly - Fabrics if anyone wants to know :)
German is rally hard:D Der Apfel, die Birne, der Rhein, die Donau, das Reh, der Hase, die Taube:D Really cra
you are busy making progress in German. I feel that you got talent for languages. You are right: don't think about "deinen, deinem, deines, deine, deiner".. just try to understand the words.. the finishing will come automatically later on.
Attaboy.....3:55 that's how you improve your German..... Conner, take note!
Never eat a schnitzel in Germany you have to come to Austria to get a real one :D
Silas you definitely need to do a reacting video to german rap!!
I actually don't find this aspect of German that hard, because I know I am definitely gonna make mistakes anyways.
For gender I guess there are no shortcuts unfortunately. One strategy I use is using association. For example "der Mann läuft nackt in den Wald", because I know the man is masculine and I use that to associate with forest (I've heard the more explicit or personal the image you create the better the association for the memory), plus their plural matches. If I feel lazy I just tend to highlight the vocabulary blue for masculine nouns. I find your sticker labeling method pretty neat, so I can use different colored stickers for different genders.
For cases, all I did was that I need to memorize the 4x4 adjective table (actually only 3x4) because I actually don't care too much about the genitive case. Then, whenever I am stuck I don't really need to look up tables again and again which can be so annoying. You can use a song call "das doofe Fischlied" to help you memorize the case ending which shouldn't be very challenging.
And you are right, you shouldn't focus too much just on nouns, there are so many other annoying aspects about German like reverse verbs, such as "uns fällt was ein", and German numbers and German Pronouns which I find it extremely annoying.
Hi,
why do you find them annoying?
Grüße aus Deutschland
Deutsche Sprache schwere Sprache hahahah