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Learn German Quickly - The German Noun

Another way to learn German quickly is to start with mastering the German nouns. As you may recall, to indicate a specific person, place, animal, event, thing or idea you MUST use a definite article (the) with the Noun. There are 3 German genders. The masculine (the) is der, feminine (the) is die, and the neutral or neuter (the) is das.

Do not try to associate the gender to a particular concept or meaning. For example, the German word for ocean or sea exists in 3 different genders: die Sie, der Ozean, das Meer. Instead you should try to learn each noun with its article. That is to treat the noun and its article as "one" word and learn German nouns as der Wagen (car) and not Wagen.

By treating German nouns as an integral part of the word, you will avoid mistakes such as confusing "das Tor" (the gate) with "der Tor" (the fool).


The good news is that most of the German nouns are masculine, so if you need to take an educated guess...go for "der".

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Learn German Quickly - Numbers

What would life be without numbers? Love them or hate them, we need numbers to function in our daily lives. The same is true when you want to learn German quickly. One way to learn German quickly is to practice using German numbers as you go about your daily tasks such as grocery shopping for instance.

German numbers from 1 - 12 are very straight forward and easy to pronounce and put to memory. However, there are a few patterns with the numbers that follow:

Pattern of the Teens:
The numbers 13 to 19 all start with the same number used for 1 - 9 and end in the number for 10 "zehn". Example 13 = dreizehn, 14 = vierzehn,...19 = neunzehn.

Pattern of TEN:
The numbers 20, 40 - 90 start with the pratically the same words used for 1 - 9 and end with "zig" with 20 zwanzig and 30 dreißig being the only exceptions. For example, 40 vierzig, 50 fünfzig, 60 sechzig, 70 siebzig, 80 achtzig, and 90 neunzig.

Pattern of the "one-and-twenty","two-and-twenty...etc"
The numbers 21 - 29;31 - 39;41 - 49;51 - 59;61 - 69;71 - 79;81 - 89 and 91 - 99 all have the one-and-twenty, two-and-twenty pattern. For example, 31 = einunddreißig; 44 = vierundvierzig; 55 = fünfundfünfzig; 67 = siebenundsechzig; 78 = achtundsiebzig; 82 = zweiundachtzig and 99 = neunundneunzig.

Isn't German cool? As long as you master 1 - 12, the rest will come naturally as you learn German quickly.

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Learn German Quickly - Back To The Basics (Part 4)

The last of the four main basic abilities you need to learn German quickly is the ability to speak. It is much easier to understand German when spoken than it is to express yourself in German. Why? Because it is less difficult to translate German into English when you hear it, compared to when you have to translate English into German when you want to speak it. This is because there are German words that we can recognize easily when hearing German called "passive vocabulary". And there are German words that we struggle to recall when speaking German called "active vocabulary", but when heard we instantly remember them. You should aim to get more experience listening to and speaking real day-to-day German. More exposure to German, as it is spoken on the street, will improve your oral proficiency and make your spoken German sound more natural and less like your German textbook.

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