A bit of context: I started learning German in 2014, I studied an exchange semester of uni in Germany where all my classes where in German, wrote my bachelor thesis in German. Basically, my German got pretty good around 2019-2020. Then I went back to my home country and eventually stopped speaking/writing/listening German.

In January 2024 I took a placement test and after the writing and listening parts, I was allocated in the B2.4 level (Goethe Institut standards). However, after briefly speaking (in German) to a member of staff and telling them none of the B2.4 course schedules fitted my work schedule, they suggested me to enroll in the C1.2 level and revise the previous book chapters on my own to get ‘up to speed’. Now I am at C1.3 level, understand pretty much everything, but I’ve noticed my classmates have a much deeper knowledge and much wider vocabulary than me and are overall more fluent than me. Should I stay in my current lessons or change to a lower level?

I have checked the pronunciation of "spät" with Duden, Langenscheidt, and Collins and they all pronounce the "Ä" like "E" in "I met". However, I am sure I have heard the "Ä" in "spät" being pronounced also like "E" in "Great!". Am I wrong?

So, I've been listening to some of the Grimm! (Die wirklich wahre Geschichte von Rotkäppchen und ihrem Wolf) songs on spotify, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a very widespread/well-known musical and so I haven't been able to find the song lyrics to any of the songs, except one (Grimm).

My current favourite is 'Sei ein Wolf', the majority of which I can understand. Was wondering if anyone could help with figuring out a few lines:

• Der _________ Tier auf der Welt [0:16]
• Sei ein Wolf, heißt klar bist du gefährlich, aber doch nur wenn du dich ___(Home recht?)____ fühlst [0:51]
• [Dorothea speaking] Das _______ mich zu hören [1:17]
• Was die Welt denkt ________, Ein echter Wolf wird dich niemals belügen ________________, dafür ich (wolf?) ja wirklich frei [2:16]

Here's a link to the song on spotify, I can't find it on YouTube: https://open.spotify.com/track/0mQtDUkb8BEyLl02IdIfxB?si=3183583e53a54de7

Any help would be much appreciated!

Dann müssten mir alle immer sagen: "Guten Tag. Wie geht es Ihnen HerrVorragend?"

Und ich würde dann antworten: "Hervorragend, danke!"

Und die Frauen würden träumerisch sagen: "Also dieser HerrVorragend, das ist ein hervorragender Typ!"

Guten tag!, l’m about to finish Highschool and I dream of studying and living in germany, I’m a beginner to the language and my knowledge of it is really limited, I’m looking for free recourses to help me since we don’t have any good german courses in my country, I tried many apps and non of them give the full course unless I get premium, the only free app is Duolingo and I heard it’s not that good, Are there any good YouTube channels or free apps to help me on my journey ? Dankeschön.

Ich glaube dass ich bin bei A2-B1 Niveau. Ich benutze manchmal A2 Menschen Bücher. Ich weiß meisten Grammatik von diesen Büchern. Ich finde diese Bücher sehr langweilig. Deshalb, erfahre ich Burnout jeden Tage. Soll ich diese Bücher zu benutzen anhalten, und Easy German Videos statt benutzen?

Ex: the old man realized he was out of touch when he didnt understand the young people's slang

danke!

Im a bit hung up on this because im barely A1 and i dont know if it would be a good idea yet. Should i wait or just go for it?

Hi.

I am going to Cologne in August.

This is to help myself and my daughter (who is doing German A level in the UK).

However, since booking the trip, I have seen on the internet that the dialect in Cologne is very strong and difficult to understand.

I assume/hope/prey that if we go somewhere in Cologne and politely ask "please can we speak Hochdeutsch" that we will be okay?

Or are we going to really struggle to understand what is being said in Cologne? Is it a very different dialect?

Hallo, ich bin aktuell auf der Suche nach auf B2/C1 Sufe jemandem, mit dem ich noch merh Deutsch praktizieren kann. Wenn jemand Block dazu hast, schreib mir einen Kommentar.

Kontext (Arbeitsbuch, Übung):

Vor knapp einem Jahr habe ich das gute Jobangebot einer internationalen Firma ausgeschlagen, stattdessen habe ich mich entschieden, selbstständig zu arbeiten. Meine Arbeit findet große Anerkennung, folglich habe ich viele Aufträge. Viele Kolleginnen und Kollegen müssen um Anerkennung kämpfen, _____ habe ich mir schon sehr früh meinen Platz auf dem Markt erobert.

Meine Lösung: demgegenüber

Lösung im Arbeitsbuch: stattdessen

Fragen:

1. Ist meine Lösung richtig?
2. Ist die Lösung aus dem Arbeitsbuch richtig?
3. Wie wäre es mit dagegen?
4. Wie wäre es mit andernfalls?

For example, greifen vs ergreifen, fordern vs erfordern.

Ansicht, Absicht, Vorsicht, etc

Beitragen, betragen, ertragen

They tend to mean such similar things and I don’t know why some are used when others aren’t.

Hallo zusammen! I am still confuse on when to use haben or sein when I make a perfekt sentences.

Because my teacher said that Haben is used when there is no movement from one place to another place. And Sein is used when it is the opposite. But I saw some examples where the haben is used even though you are moving like “Er habe eingekauft” or “er hat getanzt”

Could you pls help me understand it? Thanks in advanceee

Stellen Sie vor, dass es irgendein Diagramm gibt. Dieses Diagramm beschreibt einen Zeitraum zwischen 2000 und 2010. (Es gibt aber nur 2000 und 2010, ich weiß auch nicht, wie man das sagt.)

Ich sehe, dass die Angaben kontinuierlich gestiegen sind und ich möchte sagen, dass die Daten auch in der Zukunft steigen können. (50% -> 70%)

Wie sagt man das? Es gibt einen Wachstum, und ich möchte vermuten, dass dieser Wachstum immer noch bleiben.

Sagt man: "Dieser dargestellte Trend werden sich fortsetzen. "?

Hey everyone! Before I post my query I want to say I'm new to Reddit and I hope I'm not breaking any "rules" or asking something irrelevant by this....

I dream to work in Germany in future. But frankly speaking, I don't know any German. All I know is "Eins, Zwei, Drei....Vier, Und Wird Nie Vom Himmel Fallen...Fünf, Hier Kommt Die Sonne", "Der Anfang ist das Ende, Und Das Ende ist der Anfang", "Ein Heller schein am firmament" etc. And some words like Wünderbar, Untergang, Unsterblich, Todd etc.

My first year in University has just ended and it's break time. I want to utilise the break (2 months) for learning German from free resources available. Earlier, I wanted to finish A2 within 2 months but then I saw mixed experiences. One of them being a fellow redditor learning B1 within 4 months and others being struggling to learn A2 despite trying for 6 months. I believe everyone of them is genuine and the proficiency will matter on the learner's dedication. So, I'm aiming A1. I'm not the sharpest and won't be practicing 10 hours a day but still I'm highly interested.

So comes my real question. I wanna ask is the YouTube channel "Learn German" worth a try or not. I think there might be lot of people aware of how this YT channel is. The channel has 1.52M subscribers and has multiple playlists for each level. As of now, I'm interested in the A1 playlist which contains 69 videos(10 min each). Is it sufficient? Or should there be an additional resource alongwith? Or are there better alternatives? I am not going for Duolingo because I don't think it would really help a lot in the longer run and I'm into something serious.

Also, I am not aiming for Goethe Zertifikat. Neither, I'm moving to Germany in any near future nor I have a Goethe Institute nearby (the nearest is 481.2km). Nor I have the money (Lol).Let's just say distant future and A free DW Nico's Weg certificate will give me a little sense of achievement too. So, even if it's just A1 certificate I just want to give it a start :)

I’m in German 1 and we have this final presentation for the class. We have to make a slideshow about a topic and then teach it to the class and then give the class a short little quiz about what we just taught. I have klamotten gefallen in dative and I’m really at a loss on how to teach this and what using dative really means. Any help?

When we conjugate regular verbs in German language we remove the -en and add "e", "st", "t", or "en"

And if the verb ending in "t", "d", "m", or "n" we add e before t and st

is that rule right or not and if it's cause I looked up for the conjugating of the verb träumen

found it like that:  

|| || |ich|träume| |du|träumst| |er|träumt| |wir|träumen| |ihr|träumt| |sie|träumen|

Diese ist mein erstes Reddit post auf Deutsch, meine Muttersprache ist tatsächlich Englisch. Ich höffen dass Sie verstehen alles kann. Als Der Titel schon sagt, ich fühle mich wie ein Versager being Deutsch. Ich glaube dass, ich habe B2 Niveau erreichen (oder mir arbeite bei), aber anders Fährigkeiten fühl als ob Sie sind weniger oder starker. Zum beispiel, ich kann Gespräche verstehe, jedoch fühle ich mich wirklich frustrieren, wenn kann ich nicht spontan sprechen. Es gibt so viel ich weiße nicht, und ich versuche mein bestern.

Jeder Beratung?

Hi all I’m sitting my Telc B1 German exam at the end of this month. I find for me the best way of studying is simply to do as many mock/past exams as possible. I’ve only managed to find one mock B1 German exam pdf to download that has everything I need (questions, answers, recordings for the listening part, etc.) Does anyone know a really good source where I can download as many of these mock exams as possible? Happy to pay if needs be. Thanks in advance !

I am practicing my German on duolingo and this sentence they construcuted reads “Super, Wein! Prost!” Why does the comma go between "great" and "wine" here? I don't understand what they are trying to say because without the comma it would just mean that the wine is great, but what does it mean with the comma?

I was getting apfel wrong in pronunciation tests on the German release of Instant Immersion until by accident I changed the a sound more similar to act as in acting through English pronouncation and I finally got the word right. Out of experiment I began to pronounce a whenever I see it and not just words that start with an A like Apparat but whenever a appears in where like halb and zwanzig but modified to take into account the consonants before and after the A and other vowels into each word and from then on I'm getting every speech test with the Instant Immersion software 100% correct in German.

So I'm wondering would it be accurate to describe A in German as sounding like something in between apple and ace which I'd personally most likely describe as similar to acting's pronouncation in American accent? Or is there more specific subtle rules? But for a beginner still trying to grasp the language is "between apple and ace" a good starting point which acting (at least to me) is probably the easiest single word to describe vocalizing A in German?

I can’t understand when it’s appropriate to use möchten and when to use würden. What’s the difference between them?

Ich habe den folgenden Satz:

"Manche Männer sind wie Kinder"

Was ist der Fall von Kinder in diesem Satz?

I know what CEFR and Goethe say a person should know with that level, but I want to hear it from you. How much German do you understand with B2 level in your day-to-day life?

How bad are those strong German accents in the south and east?

How often do you encouter problems because you are not yet fluent in German?

Ho long did it take you from B2 to fluent (or almost fluent)?

Edit: I don't have B2 level. I'm just considering passing the exam at Goethe before moving to Germany.

I do Goethe B1 flashcard set(finished a1 and a2 sets) on Anki and there are some a2 grammar topics that I didn't learn. I sometimes write on r/WriteStreakGerman and when I give my texts to chatgpt for feedback, it says a2-b1.

so guys i have this german friend who’s learning my language and cussing me with them and i want to do the same.

pls drop some cuss words and their meanings( it’s doesn’t matter if it’s insulting)

Kann der Satz, beziehungsweise die Verbindung “richtig gut” die Bedeutung von “häufig, sehr oft” haben?

Das heißt: ich sehe das oft / darauf treffe ich häufig.

Englisch ist meine Muttersprache und ich würde beide als “progress” übersetzen. Gibt es Nuance zwischen sie?

25M Indian here. I'm facing a huge dilemma since last few months which I think about every day.

I'm a person who likes to socialize, travel, make new friends and have new experiences with people. I know for a fact that if I move to an English speaking country I wouldn't have any issues doing all these with the natives. But since I'm in Germany and don't know the language, my biggest fear that's holding me back from learning German is the fact that I will never be accepted as well as native Germans.

I go Salsa dancing and I have never been able to connect as well as people as they do with each other, even though they speak English. I go travelling and it's the same story again. Not blaming anyone, just sharing my experiences.

Because of this fear, I'm considering relocating to an English speaking country like UK or Canada. I really like Germany and want to live here long term and would prefer it over UK or Canada (because of the relaxed work culture, more vacation days, strong job security, less crime, etc), but just because of the language barrier, I'm considering moving. Am I overthinking it or am I (somewhat) right?

Ideally I want to be able to make German friends and date German women. But not sure if I'd be able to do that even if I learn the language (say even upto C1).