As much as my German is quite decent, sadly I barely understand anything when someone speaks in colloquial/dialectal German.

Let's say I am at Starbucks...

Is it more common/natural to say "Kann ich einen Cappuccino grande mit Hafermilch haben?" or "Ich hätte gerne einen Cappuccino grande mit Hafermilch?"

I came to Germany around 2 years ago and now I am almost done with my masters degree, just finalizing my thesis. In this time I went on learning the language and did A2. Now I am applying to full time jobs. As a student my schedule was very messy. Classes, part time job at the starting then werkstudent, making meals, assignments, quiz, exams and so on. I did have an A1 course in first semester and that kept me punctual, but afterwards maintaining even a 10 day streak on Doulingo/Praktika or watching slow German podcasts was hectic but I still managed to hang on and finish A2 along with finishing my masters on time.

The real question now is, does it get easy with full time job when you have just one thing on your mind or it get more difficult? People who learned the language working full time in Germany, what is your experience with this?

Would love to improve my German with others!

Hilfe :( Je mehr ich darüber nachdenke, desto weniger weiß ich.

Hey! Im a university student learning German. Just started this spring. I've been studying for as much as I could, but I cant seem to get over the average grades. And even though I'm happy with that, I really want to learn to use and understand German and be as good as native speakers (and maybe visit there someday, lol)

Anyways! My question is: what resources do you use to learn German grammars, words, etc? Love you all!

I'm Hungarian and learned German for 4 years back in high school in the 2000s and even chose German as my elective subject for the school-leaving exam (érettségi) and got a "5" (equivalent to an "A" in English-speaking countries) for it along with a "B1" language certificate.

Despite this, I never managed to become fluent in the language, it just seems such a difficult language compared to English.

Now, when I try understanding spoken German I comprehend almost nothing, save for brief sentences. When reading written German, I can generally get the gist of a text, but there are always pesky key words (and sometimes whole sentences) I simply don't understand and often these words or sentences are the most important for extracting the meaning from a text.

What methods can you recommend for me to re-awaken my knowledge of German and progress to fluency in it?

KONTEXT Ich hab als kind ein paar jahre in Deutschland gelebt

Ich bin meistens in America aufgewachsen aber nie hab ich dies wort gehört außerdem von der Heilige Messe 💒✝️

Mein Deutsch ist ziemlich schlecht, aber das Google Translate ist tausendmal schlimmer !

Viele leute haben mir gesagt ich soll AI benutzen. Ich vertrau es einfach nicht!

Heute hab ich ein kleines experiment gemacht / getan ( ? )
Ich wollte prüfen ob es wirklich richtig ist mit dem übersetzen...weil ich hab es mir schon geanht das AI wertlos ist ..und ich damit hat ich Recht gehabt 💯

Ich hab gesagt zum AI übersetz dies: 'Ich schau auf YouTube die Messe an"

Google hat es übersetzt als "I'm watching a *TRADE SHOW* on YouTube

Dann hab ich es gleich ausgelacht und genau so geschrieben: "Google bist du ein Heide?"
Da hat google endlich richtig übersetzt: it came back as "Google are you a Pagan"

So, I don't trust AI slop. Folx keep telling me hit up AI and I'm like nah I'm pretty dang sure I know German better then even Google translate..

But just to prove myself right I asked Google to translate from German to English "Im watching Mass on YouTube" (typed in German) Upon converting it to English: Google translated MASS as "trade show" - looks like my mission was accomplished as it proved my point.

Then I lol'd and typed in German to English the following:

"Google are you a Heathen?" Amazingly, it translated that right!

lesson for the day: don't put your Faith in AI slop ! Or if you do, test it out first with verbiage you actually know so you can recognize when it gives you a false return..

I have the screenshots, but can't seem to include them ....at least I got highkey good giggles out of it 😝 and my point was fully validated !!!

For context I’m about A2 in German and started my 2nd year of French. I like both languages but I LOVE learning German so is there any way to balance these languages? Thanks!

I'm giving up on language learning apps because none of them can bring me to an advanced level on my vocabulary and also its hard to find one I like or to try it out without paying. I already know and have Cornelsen Grammativ Aktiv for grammar, and I'm so happy with those books! I do wish they did C2 grammar, though.

If anyone hassome really good textbook recommendations for vocabulary (especially upper levels), please let me know.

Guten Tag,

ich lerne Deutsch im Geothe Insitute. Ich habe letzter Monat schon A1-Kurs gemacht. Heute habe ich meine A1-Prüfung "Start Deutsch A1". Die Prüfung war ganz einfach, aber wir haben zu viel Wörter und Grammatik im Unterricht gelernt. Ich denke, dass die Prüfung keine Fragen vom Kapitel 7-12 auf "Netzwerk Neu" Buch hatte. Ist das auch gleich für A2?

Ich glaube, dass Prüfung zu einfacher als Kurs war. Seit zwei Monate mache ich A2-Kurs und ich habe meine A2-Prüfung im Dezember. Ich war gestern zu nervös, aber ich denke, dass wenn wir im Goethe lernen, dann die Prüfung gefählt einfach.

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Basically I heard many people say that its easier to pass a level exam that to be at that level in proficiency. So I was wondering if this difference lesser for people who do full classroom structured courses where Certificate exam is a part of syllabus but they also teach so many things which don't show up in the exam. For example we learnet so many words especially in last 4 chapter, and all the words in the actual exams were so easy and basic ones!

I'm learning German. (A2)

How to I speed my learning up & get myself confident & comfortable enough to speak in English?

Note: I'm learning German by self/online free resources.

Hello all,

As part of my preparation for the Goethe C1 Zertifikat, I created this website for C1 mock exams using claude and elevenlabs. Currently there are 10 online but maybe I'll upload more if someone finds this helpful.
For my part, I think the exam are a little too easy for C1, especially the hearing comprehension part.

If someone has ever taken the C1 exam, please send me your feedback !

Hello everyone,

I am on my path to achieving a B2 level but I got stuck and I dont know what I should change or adapt in order to make progress.

II took 150 lessons (1h each) with my current tutor over 1.5 years, I passed thw B1 Goethe exam in July.

The problem started when I saw the amount of lesson that were done and didn't feel that I am close to B2 oevel.

I can communicate with my tutor in german for about an hour straight, sometimes with problems remembering or knowing some words, but never having problems with fully understanding the ideea he wants to say.

Sure, I make some mistakes when using cases and so on and Im focusing on improving that now.

I listen to podcasts, transcribe word ls or phrases I dont understand and make new sentences.

I read Harry Potter series in german, already went through the first book, and at the half way mark I started to not have too many problems and I had pages where I needed 0 translations.

So far this is what I am struggling with and I do not know what to do in order to feel like I even made some progress.

This has been drivinf me insane in the past week and I figured, turning to the community for advice wouldn't be a bad ideea.

Any suggestions are welcomed.

Thank you!

which book is better for self studying German? Starten wir or Momente?

Hey everyone,

I speak German fluently and I've literally always seen and written "Tschüss" with a double S.

I recently saw "Tschüs" spelled with a single S in a course and it completely threw me off. I don't think I've ever seen anyone spell it like that in messages or anywhere else. Or is it just an official Duden rule that people mostly ignore? How do you guys spell it?