Let's Learn German

Recently I have started learning German Language. In this blog post series I will share my experience. Hope it will be helpful for few who are newbie like me.

There are many free web series in YouTube and free Android apps which anyone can access for self learning. Google translator comes handy for learning any language.

So then lets get started. I will use German words along with English words from the beginning itself. Don't get frustrated like me if you find some strange symbols/sounds  while learning from scratch.  Even I don't know them all . Hope in due course we all will know what are all those.

When ever you find a German Word just copy it and run it in Google Translator and listen to it, to how it is pronounced.  I will keep on putting the Translator URL in between the post so that you don't forget to listen how it sounds.

Lesson 1.

The Greetings / Welcome Remarks          die Grüßung

Copy the new word and listen

Good morning		Guten Morgen
Good day		Guten Tag	Schönen Tag
Good evening		Guten Abend
Good night		Gute Nacht
Good bye	(Formal)	Auf Wiedersehen
Bye	(Informal)	Tschüss

Sleep well Schlaf schön Sweet dreams Schöne Träume See you later Bis später Thank you very much danke schön  Love you Ich liebe dich Please Bitte Welcome Willkommen Hello Hallo

Note : 

1. Every where its Guten but for night its Gute, this is because in German language night is feminine and others are masculine.
2. Also you can find the 2nd words with capital letter, this is because in German language  for all the nouns the starting letter is written in capital .

Hey, you just got your first German rule

Always keep the first letter of noun as capital letter wherever it may come in a statement.

Lesson 2

The alphabet                                                                   Das Alphabete

Copy the new word and listen

a	b	c	d
aa	be	se	de
e	f	g	h
a	ef	gue	ha
i	j	k	l
e	yot	ka	el
m	n	o	p
em	en	o	pe
q	r	s	t
ku	er	es	te
u	v	w
ou	fau	ve
x	y	z
iks	upsilon	tset

Search any alphabet song from Youtube  and sing :)
German Alphabet Song

Other than these there are few other special sounds

sounds a+e ä aye o+e ö woo u+e ü you s+s ß strong S sound

(the .. is for sound of e and is called umlaut)

Whenever there is 'ei' in a word that sounds like 'i' and

whenever there is 'ie' in a word that will give a 'e' sound.