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>Whats the best way to go about DIY German learning

Go to Germany for a couple of months and do a full immersion. Basic German isn't terribly difficult for native English speakers.

>>300273
I'm planning to head there but wanted to pick up basics of the language. Looking for suggestions on that...

http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=German

Check out the /int/ sticky

alright. Thanx bros

Sorry OP I meant the /sci/ sticky, language section.

Errrh, might be a stupid advice but have you ever tried to learn German the way Germans learn English? by TV/ Series?

For example just download a comic series (e.g. South Park Season 14, english and german dubbed). The talking is pretty easy and understandable and you can easily follow the story and you should get a general idea of what the german version is getting across.

>>300495

lolwut

if that was the case then everybody who watches anime would be speaking fluent japanese

>>300495
German here, most Germans learn English in school and then refine it through media consumption, mostly music. TV not so much unless they bother to download things in English because regular TV airs absolutely EVERYTHING dubbed in German.

>>300525
That's not a very good analogy. It's easier to learn different languages with the same root this way because you will naturally pick up on the similarities between them, obscure grammar rules aside. Japanese and English share no common ancestry, and there are no similarities apart from a handful of "loan words."

I've found Rosetta Stone to be dubious at best. There's literature out there that shows that it doesn't really help with fluency in the language of choice. It also teaches by the same logic of X->English dictionary. You don't get the same feel for the language rules and everything. It won't go out of its way to teach, say, the difference between IR and AR verbs in Spanish. It's just rote memorization.

Listen to Rammstein.

Use a website called duolingo. It's free and you can practice speaking too if you have a webcam.

>>300734
i've used this site for french and german (although i already spoke basic french) and it works great for me

>>300269
Watch German programming, like sitcoms.

Learning language through situational comedy will occur without you even knowing it. I can say that this works, whether you like it or not - if you are English, you've had your fill of shit TV, and shit TV is the same everywhere, and therefore this works. You cannot argue with that logic.

Watch 1 half hour show a day. Browse for something that isn't wickedly fast paced in terms of conversation, and you will be picking things up here and there before you.. know it.

>>300631
I just want to correct you here, your whole post is correct, except for the word 'handful'. Japanese is fucking full of loan words.

>>300866
Yes, they pretty much want to be us

Watch old war films op.
I'm glad I did, as I know now when germans are going to flank me, want me to surrender, want me to do things quickly and want me to get out

I started trying for a month or so before I gave up because it was useless for me.
I started listening to Michel Thomas audiobooks, they were quite good.

Date a German girl. Have her read Goethe, Rilke or Kafka to you every night before you make love. It worked for me!

>>300983
>before you make love
Gay

Go there, use german. All the time. Most gremlings know english, at least to some extent.

Im not a native english speaker, I started watching cartoons on english, german and even a bit of spanish. By the time I was 16 I was fluent in 4 languages. Find some anime in german

>>301029
I fucking hate this advice. It's like it'd be fine to just drop everything and move to Germany. Don't worry about job/education/life. Just fucking move to Germany, so simple!

>>301071

>German dubbed anime

>>301122
Accurate picture is accurate.

>>301122
>>301071
Generally good advice, but unfortunately, this picture says it all. German dub opens up a totally new level of horrendously disgustingly bad, that coming from a German.
If you really want to know, just google the German dub for Naruto, especially the episodes <50. It's the worst abomination I have ever witnessed. Not that I like the show, but I feel a little bit sorry for it ;_;

How I learned most of my English was actually by watching English dubbed Anime, then switching to subs and generally hanging out in the internet.
So, also read some German sites that look interesting to you. I can't recommend any except of Wikipedia because I generally don't visit German sites, though.

>>301261
I thought the german dub of NGE was ok, watched it when i was learning german

>>300734
I agree with you. Duolingo.com is great. I use it to learn French.

Watch Deutsche Welle on satellite.

The library may have german language teaching videos, all free to borrow of course.

>>300547
>>300525
basically those

>>300960
don't. translations are usually bad as fuck, stick with tv shows like house m.d. or discovery channel, dmax got you covered with the later.

>>301071
>>301122
>>301178
evade german dubbed anime like the plague, 95% of the german anime fans were scarred by them for live and use english subs ever since

>>301652
this, also their homepage. their program is quiet similar to bbc's learning english
http://www.dw.de/dw/0,,2469,00.html

I would think German music then finding lyrics would be a good help.

>>301262
Haven't watched NGE at all, but the stuff that is normally on TV sucks. Oh, and maybe there are some series late in the night that may have better dubs, but I don't watch TV anymore, so I am not up to date with the current situation.

>>301740
>Haven't watched NGE at all

You really should. Watching NGE is mandatory if you like anime. Liking NGE is optional

I started learning German with rosetta stone, I found it really easy, haven't learnt any more in ages due to lack of time.