Mamagistra Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Any plans in the works for the perfect German curriculum? My oldest dd asked about German over dinner this evening, and I nearly dropped my fork. French, Latin...even Greek I can handle. German scares me! :eek: What with those 25-letter words and such, I'm sure there'd be lots of takers for Plaid Deutsch. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnoises Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I had some German in college and it is really not as difficult as it looks. It is very mathematical (and learning Latin is very similar!) I wish we could spend all day just learning foreign languages......(sigh). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Compared to many other languages, German is quite phonetic. OK, maybe I am the only one who thinks that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Lynx Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 French scares me. German is no problem! Those 25-letter words are just little words you already know strung together. The Germans see no sense in making up a new word for something, when they can just string together the words they've already got ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 And the verb always comes at the end. Easy peasy!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friederike in Persia Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I know some people stuggle with the grammar, but there is beauty to it, too! Felt, like I had to defend my mother tongue there!!;) Friederike from Germany Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaid Dad Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I call German the "Lego language," because it's just little blocks stuck together to make Mondo Big Words. The base vocabulary is quite small, really. The articles and pronouns are much more confusing: there are 16 ways to say "the." ;) German is more difficult to learn than the Romance languages - I remember a study that showed that it took twice as many classroom hours for students of German to achieve the same level of fluency as students of French or Spanish. But it is no harder than Latin or Greek. That said, I don't have any plans to write a German curriculum. Although I still tutor German a bit, my interests have gone in other directions, and I don't see myself getting jazzed enough to write a whole language program for it. Sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie in CA Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Compared to many other languages, German is quite phonetic. OK, maybe I am the only one who thinks that. You are right! German is very phonetic. Both my kids had no trouble learning to read German. Learning to read English was much more difficult. Susie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Sorry! *sigh* Well, I had to ask. ;) We so appreciate your work to this point, so stay the course! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I call German the "Lego language," because it's just little blocks stuck together to make Mondo Big Words. The base vocabulary is quite small, really. The articles and pronouns are much more confusing: there are 16 ways to say "the." ;) quote] I stopped worrying about the 'der', 'die', 'das' thing when I realised my little German niece just uses 'die' for everything, even English words. I would love to have her with me all the time to teach me. She is so cute, fun and patient but my sister tells me off for learning from her...:p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 DD developed confidence in spelling through learning some German. I pointed out to her that she could spell in German even though she was convinced that she could never learn to spell in English. She thought that that was great! She got very hopeful at that point. I think that she spelled first in German because it's so much more regular than English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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