#a1 german

[mastermindhall]

A1 German Verb List 1

As I've started taking German classes and have done quite a few lessons by now, I think posting vocab lists could do great.

sprechen - to speak

sagen - to say

sehen - to see

schauen - to look, to watch

hören - to hear, to listen

lesen - to read

fragen - to ask

ergänzen - to complete, to fill in

markieren - to mark

passen - to suit, to fit

zuordenen - to arrange, to classify

buchstabieren - to spell

studieren - to study

zeigen - to point, to show, to display

passieren - to happen, to occur, to take place

meinen - to mean, to intend

raten - to advise, to counsel

lieben - to love

heißen - to be called

bauen - to build

fahren - to drive, to ride

kommen - to come

schreiben - to write

machen - to make, to do

rechnen - to calculate

backen - to bake

studieren - to study

stehen - to stand

außstehen - to stand up, to get up

kosten - to cost

funktionieren - to function, to work

pflegen - to nurse, to foster

wachsen - to grow

checken - to check

chatten - to chat (texting!)

üben - to practise

[hungwy]

JLPT N3 is comparable to CEFR B1; JLPT N2 is equivalent to CEFR B2, and JLPT N1 basically requires the same skills as CEFR C1. but consider the fact that to get to JLPT N1, the highest level of fluency for the most popular Japanese proficiency test, you need, on average, starting from no knowledge of Japanese at all (including kanji), 3000–4800 hours. to get to CEFR C2 in German, that being the highest level of the most popular framework for measuring European-language proficiency, you should study around 750 hours, maybe more. mind you this is measured with monolingual native English speaker -> target language perspectives in mind, but still, like, what the hell man. look at the requirements:

CEFR C2 (750-900 hours in German): "[understanding] with ease virtually everything heard or read … [and expressing oneself] spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations."

JLPT N1 (3000-4800 hours): "able to read [various and profound] writings with [logical/abstract] complexity … [and] comprehend orally presented materials [in a wide variety of settings] … spoken at natural speed … [and] also able to understand the details … such as the relationships among the people involved, the logical structures, and the essential points."

if you study German well for 3 hours a day, every day, nonstop, until you hit the 750 hours of study for CEFR C2, you're more than fluent in 250 days. okay, the US State Department says you need 900 hours, so the time it takes to become fluent changes to... oh... 300 days.

if you study Japanese well for 3 hours a day, every day, nonstop, until you hit the 3000 hours of study for JLPT N1, you're more-or-less fluent (not even definitively!) in 2.7 years. for 4800 hours it takes 4.3 years.

and studying 3 hours a day every day is basically unreasonable for most people! not to mention "real language heads" study for 10 hours a day. a regular person would probably do about an hour or two a day, right? and probably have weekends where studying doesn't happen. so let's say 2 hours a day, monday-friday; 10 hours a week. with 52.14 weeks in a year, you get about 521.4 hours of studying in per year.

with this regimen you achieve considerable German fluency in about a year and a half of study, and are probably on the same level as university students. the same habits will get you high-school-level Japanese fluency in 8 years.

now obviously all this assumes a lot: consistent learning ability, consistently paced lessons, not skipping any days, not forgetting anything, etc etc etc. but i think these numbers more or less hold

[sometimesreading]

Mentally I am in the shade under a tree reading for fun. Physically, I am cramming as much Italian into my head as possible in the next 2 weeks while ignoring the anatomy I should be studying 😭

[fabio-271205]

Some more shots from Heidelbergs old town and the castle. I‘ve shot these in summer (like in the beginning of august) and on Kodak Ultramax (ISO 400 color/negative) with my Canon A1.

PS: This was my first time using Kodak Ultramax, but there will soon come up some more shots on this filmstock.

[sysy-studyblr]

monday 11/09/23

first day of actual class! honestly it was a bit different meeting people + there were only two brown people there [me and another girl] and that was weird too but all in all i liked it!

♫ sloppy stella - between friends ♫

[racingcore]

me messaging my boyfriend not in our mother tongue, not in our second or third language but in german.

him: 🥺🥺😭❤️

[dashalbrundezimmer]

train station // niederdollendorf

the province is burnt down.

music for it: tocotronic "aber hier leben nein danke"

film: kodacolor gold 400

dev&scan: meinfilmlab

[darkelfchicksick]

put out a job ad the other week, just assumed that nobody would be crazy enough to apply for a job as a content creator for a german-language company without speaking german.

well you'll never know what happened.

[officialpenisenvy]

i don't love that bit of translation i think it sounds very stilted and im not super fond of where the stress falls on the syllables. but on the other hand i do like it when poetry sounds translated and contains within itself the discomfort of not being read in its original language.

[anger-and-red-flames]

oha surprise surprise, being in a relationship where you are forced to speak the other person's language almost 24/7 is exhausting?

[bisexualfaggotry]

how does one learn a new language with a new alphabet when you happen to clinically suck at languages

[maxthetruman]

learning german is fun except its spoiling me so much for every other language i will learn because... nicos weg..... there is not a nicos weg for every language out there....

[beforeiread-studies]

26.10.2023 || Spent the whole afternoon looking into this scholarship for a German Language Summer School in Germany. The courses start from A1 but to get the scholarship you need to have a B1 certificate.

Why would I pay for a language course if I already had a certification???

[fitzrove]

German speaker followers of firztove.rungle.com. Does anyone know what the difference between vermissen and versäumen is???