LearnItSlow

45. Slow by designs Kleine Deutsche Lehre Teil 1 Nr. 2 "Hauptwörter"

Continuing on in my study of German Grammar, sourced from a "Sprachlehre" published over a hundred years ago in German, I review nouns.

Also included are the three genders found in German, the breakdown of how to group different types of nouns, i.e. singular/plural and common and proper nouns, as well as an introduction to the four cases.

44. Slow by designs Kleine Deutsche Lehre Teil 1 Nr.1 GESCHLECHTSWÖRTER

Here's the gist of why I'm doing this series:

Learning German was always high on my list of life-long achievement goals. While I speak reasonably well for someone who has spent a total of one 2 years actually living and speaking the language on a daily basis (not consecutively), the grammar side of it has always eluded my brain. (I'm a very slow learner.) Also, professionally I'm a cellist and recently I began teaching a native German speaker and that student would rather not have it in English. I'm cool with that because it is a chance for me to improve and use the German I know. However, I'm quite nervous about it every week and find it hard to form nice sentences, etc.

I'll be using an old German Grammar Lesson Book entitled Kleine Deutsche Lehre or "The Little German Lesson" (anyone with a better translation, please let me know). It walks one through the types of word classes, parts of speech, and conjugations. This will be my own study of Grammar.

Today's episode is about Geschlechtswörter, or the articles: der, die, das; ein, eine, ein.

#learngerman #germangrammar #conjugationingerman #germanlanguage

It's the end of 2022, but the start of 2023.

Happy New Year!

42. Poem/Gedicht "Der Alte Landmann an Seinen Sohn

This is a great old poem about winter and Christmas. "King Winter"

Published by Gustav Seitz in Hamburg, 1859.

This is practice and recitation from a native grammar book from germany in the 1800's.

Badly needed practice.

This is a reading of "Thanksgiving Day", a POEM by Lydia Maria Child.

At first, my eye stopped over the opening of the poem because of a phrase that is well known and oft-repeated, or at least it was as a child. Then it became more of a nostalgic experience due to my current living situation, living abroad. 

That first phrase goes like this, "Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go". 

Or does it? LOL  I was quite surprised to find out that there were two differences that I had not previously known. Listen to find out. 

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This poem is by a German named Robert Reinick.

The title is Deutscher Rat. 

Duolingo is a fun way to get started when learning. I have gone on a long, long streak. So far I have done lessons daily for a total of ____ days. (How many days did you hear in the episode?)

This is the Second story from the German reader titled, Ährenlese, or Gleanings. Der Fuchs und der Krebs is reminiscent of another story English speakers grow up with. After listening can you ascertain which one? (I reveal the similarities at the end of the episode.)

Read Ährenlese stories for yourself here.  Project Gutenberg makes digital downloads in the public domain quite an easy process. 

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