Learning German language: The German Learners' Society (MKII)

I had a nervous breakdown and they refused to take it into consideration for my exams until the head of sixth had a go at them. Really?! That's so careless of them.


I guess I could've done ab initio at uni but I didn't feel the need. I still don't feel the need really but I'm thinking it might be more beneficial for the future.
Argh, how annoying! Russian looks like fun, my best friend has been trying to learn it for 20 years.

That's so mean of the exam board!

Your love for German is all-consuming What made you choose German, over anything else, may I ask?
I'm doing Italian instead now, but it's not really my cup of tea - hopefully I can do the Russian AS next year though. If it clashes again I will be very annoyed! Wow, 20 years sounds like a long time for just "trying", I know it's very difficult but still...!

I know, it seems like they really don't care about personal circumstances.

I chose it mainly because I didn't have the option to do another language and I knew if I dropped it that I'd regret it later on.
I would like to learn another language but I don't have the money or the time.
She's just lazy

Diese Schweine!
Oh cool And it's all worked out so well If you could, which other language would you learn?
From my experience...she'd do well with Italian

Yeah I'm very pleased. I've always wanted to learn Icelandic
Hehe I'll suggest that!

Hallo Leute!

Okay, I'm bilingual and I was thinking of doing German A-Level, I was just wondering how hard it was and if it'll be all right for me? I got A* at GCSE, but I know its quite a big jump...

Hallo Leute!

Okay, I'm bilingual and I was thinking of doing German A-Level, I was just wondering how hard it was and if it'll be all right for me? I got A* at GCSE, but I know its quite a big jump...

Icelandic sounds so awesome! Or Finnish... it has fifteen cases!

Hallo Leute!

Okay, I'm bilingual and I was thinking of doing German A-Level, I was just wondering how hard it was and if it'll be all right for me? I got A* at GCSE, but I know its quite a big jump...

bin neidig! Don't try and wing it, just because your a native speaker. It doesn't go well, according to the examiners reports for polish.

Edit: How well do you know your grammar, i.e imperfect, passive mood, reported speech etc?

Hey, I see you do German. I really really don't get that reported speech thing in german, I seen it the other day for the first time and I was like WHAT?! Could you help? haha

hahaha. we started it in the last 20mins of the lesson on monday. I get it if its to say 'Jacob said to sam could you buy me a football'. In the 3rd person/ past it makes no sense. We're going to spend a full lesson on it after Chrimbo. if you need help NOW, ask Hannah/ Etoile.

Icelandic sounds so awesome! Or Finnish... it has fifteen cases!

Care to explain them?


All this talk about languages reminded me that I should learn Spanish. (I´m not going for the difficult ones , I might try a more difficult one in my 20s.)

PS: Does anyone else feel uncomfortable when mentioning Latin as one of the languages you´ve learnt? I know it´s a dead language, but for god's sake the concept how Latin is tought at schools seems incredibly inefficient . I know that it makes learning other romanic languages easier, but think about the time spent on learning Latin compared to other languages. Imagine someone told you they had learnt English for years just to translate simple texts.

Also, does anyone else feel incomplete without getting a language you´re learning to C1/C2 level?

Which languages do you know already?
My school never taught Latin I'm learning it now, and I was surprised at how dissimilar it is to Italian! But what is there that you can do with it other than that?
There is no such thing as being complete in a language, always learning more!

PS: Does anyone else feel uncomfortable when mentioning Latin as one of the languages you´ve learnt? I know it´s a dead language, but for god's sake the concept how Latin is tought at schools seems incredibly inefficient . I know that it makes learning other romanic languages easier, but think about the time spent on learning Latin compared to other languages. Imagine someone told you they had learnt English for years just to translate simple texts.

Also, does anyone else feel incomplete without getting a language you´re learning to C1/C2 level?

Hm, I don't know, I think Latin's actually taught far better at my school than French and German. Probably because you need to understand things like cases, endings, verbs and their moods/tenses, gender, number etc much more securely than the modern foreign languages, where it seems you can get an A/A* at GCSE without knowing what the nominative case is (the post-GCSE German class worries me sometimes). And I don't think that the literature is particularly simple, some's simplified but we often do "raw" latin, as such. Yes, it's not incredibly incredibly hard but a) it's GCSE, and b) it uses lots of different and difficult types of grammar e.g. future tenses/ infinitives that don't look like what they are. Furthermore, the literary criticism element seems much more realistic (and technical!) than the stuff we do in English lit, maybe cos of the exam board, or maybe the teaching. Besides, Latin shouldn't really be compared to English because you don't need to be able to speak or listen to it in the same way.

You´re right, but the fact that the two different ways of teaching latin and modern languages are not being combined. Pupils should know their grammar just as well as they should be able to speak the language.

Am I the only person who uses what she learnt with latin grammar to help with german?

Am I the only person who uses what she learnt with latin grammar to help with german?