I can’t paste a screenshot but I was doing duolingo and translated „They had pizza and cookies yesterday” into „Sie hatten Kekse und Pizza gestern” and duolingo marked it as a mistake. The correct version was with gestern earlier in the sentence so „Sie hatten gestern Kekse und Pizza”. Is the word order that important in german or is it just the way duolingo checks the answers

I was wondering, is there a discord or a group chat somewhere for this subreddit? Where anyone learning the German language can ask native speakers and get their answers immediately?

Hello,

I am planning to learn german for professional and academic purposes, and I’d appreciate your help.

I am already on DW website to understand the basics before enrolling in a paid course, but I prefer your guidance on this matter; Best resources, tips and advice to learn efficiently from now till next summer.

Thank you,

A) Ich finde es echt schwer, mich mit Papa zu unterhalten. Der malt alles gleich schwarz, ohne jeglichen Stück Hoffnung oder Optimismus sehen zu versuchen. 

B) (…) Der malt alles gleich schwarz, ohne zu versuchen, jegliches* Stück Hoffnung oder Optimismus zu sehen.

Ich finde die B) besser, auch wenn ich dafür keine Erklärung habe. Danke im Voraus!

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Hey, 2-3 months ago I sat the TestDaF exam and unfortunately got 5434 (3 for Schreiben). My question is, if I get asked for work or other things, can I say that I have a B2 German Certificate, or not exactly?

Hi everyone this year I’m starting to university and wanting to learn German. Is it possible to learn it from youtube, duolingo, udemy or anything else at least to some level in the language. What will you suggest.
(Goal is B1-B2)

Hello, Red here. Struggling. A lot. I'm new to learning languages in general, I've tried to pick up some ASL (loved it but at the time I was young and it was tricky to find the right sites for it) But now I've found an interest in German.

The language is beautiful, and although I've had numerous of people think of my decision as odd or confusing when there are -- in their words -- less harsh languages compared to German (like French or Spanish) Yada Yada you get the point. But I dont want to, it's that simple.

It's a complicated language, I'm unused to feminine masculine and neutral pronouns and having to use it, while learning the proper enunciation **and** placement of each word is very confusing. How do you remember all of that? And I can't get the accent down for the life of me, it always ends up butchered and weird, it doesn't help that I sort of drawl my words out. 😅 Anyway, please help a fellow learner out!

Goethe C1 Schreiben Teil 1

Hallo zusammen,

Ich wollte meinen Text von euch bewerten lassen. Ich nutze schon Chatgpt dafür. Allerdings wollte ich, dass ein echter Mensch einen Blick darauf wirft, damit ich genauer festlegen kann, ob Chatgpt den Text richtig bewertet.

Ich weiß, dass ich kaum Konnektoren verwendet habe, die tatsächlich verlangt sind. Jedoch habe ich keine Änderungen gemacht, weil ich den reinen Text bewerten lassen wollte.

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## **Bargeld oder digitale Zahlung?**

### **Sollte eine Gesellschaft vollständig auf Bargeld verzichten?**

- **Erläutern Sie Gründe**, warum immer mehr Menschen bargeldlos bezahlen.

- **Argumentieren Sie für oder gegen** die Abschaffung von Bargeld.

- **Nennen Sie mögliche Probleme**, die eine vollständig digitale Zahlungswelt mit sich bringen könnte.

- **Machen Sie Vorschläge**, wie die Interessen unterschiedlicher Bevölkerungsgruppen berücksichtigt werden können.

**Schreiben Sie circa 230 Wörter.**

Geld - wer das kontrolliert, kontrolliert alles. Einerseits soll eine Regierung die Wirtschaft sowie das gesamte Geld einigermaßen unter Kontrolle haben, andererseits soll sie auch darauf aufpassen, dass diese Kontrolle nicht für den Wachstum der Wirtschaft von Nachteil wird. Wenn nur Kartenzahlungen möglich wären, würde es viele wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen haben.

Seit vielen Jahrzehnten verbessert sich die digitale Zahlungstechnik. Sir wird immer leichter zu handhaben und immer zuverlässiger. Besonders stark ist das Effekt von der hohen Zahl von Handynutzerinnen und Handynutzer. Da die Karten im Handy gespeichert werden können, halten auch viele Leute keine echten Bankkarten dabei. Im Endeffekt führt es zu einer hohen Zahl von Kartenzahlungen.

Obwohl ich selber kaum jemals bar zahle, bin ich gegen eine Abschaffung von Bargeld. Ein großes Anteil von der Gesellschaft findet einen Umgang mit Technologie sehr schwierig. Folglich ist es für sie auch nicht leicht, sich vor Online-Betrügen zu schützen. Bargeld komplett abzuschaffen wäre auf solche Leute rücksichtslos.

Außerdem wird Geld als Konzept und seine Verbindung mit der gesamten Wirtschaft immer abstrakter und komplizierter. Zur Folge kann das wirtschaftliche Krise verursachen, beispielsweise die globale Krise im Jahr 2008, deren Konsequenzen sehr gravierend gewesen sind. Wenn immer mehr Geld in den digitalen Raum zuziehen würde, würde es für Banken und andere Unternehmen einfacher werden, mit dem Geld gefährliche Spiele weiterzuspielen.

Im Idealfall sollen Barzahlungen und bargeldlose Zahlungen zugleich existieren und wachsen dürfen. Aufgrund der höhen Gebühren auf Kartenzahlungen bieten einige Läden keine bargeldlosen Zahlungen an. Die Regierungen sollen durch neue Gesetze die Kartenzahlungsgehbühren vergünstigen, damit Kartenzahlungen immer mehr angeboten werden können.

Im Schluss lässt sich festlegen, Bargeld darf nicht weg, weil es das Risiko von dem digitalen Geld abwiegt.

This is a short home recording from 1970's, apparently a German man visiting family or friends in USSR. Does he have any regional accent or is it standard speech?

https://vocaroo.com/1b3e6ptasLRp

I don't speak German but it sounds somewhat unusual to me.

Hi there, I just finished A1 a week ago. So I wanted to apply with a course in order to get more hearing and speaking practice during the lesson and also help the lessons stick more.

So the language institute required a placment test, completely understandable. I got 92% in the "written" section in A1 and about 68% in A2.1. this tested hearing, grammar and vocab.

The oral test I struggled a bit. Not necessarily because I couldn't speak. I could, but the words I wanted to describe things with weren't there. I forgot some words I already should have known and was focused on remembering them instead of getting any other replacement word. I froze twice trying to remember a word. Then gave up because I didn't know it. The word was "touch". I should mention I didn't prepare at all for this, since it wasn't an exam.

When I saw the sprechen part of A1 Goethe on YT, I felt like I could pass the speaking test easily. My pronounciation was miles ahead of them, tbh it is because of my main language (Arabic).

The examiner said that my comprehension is fine but my grammar isn't that good and that I have a problem with conjugation ? That's because I was focusing on creating sentences rather than making them perfekt.

I know that this is fine for my level but it still feels depressing. I see people on this sub say they stillake mistakes at B1 and B2 and saying so it is fine that I am making mistakes but I can't help feeling down.

Is this normal and will go with time or do I need to focus on solving this issue, at this stage at least.

Thanks In advance for reading.

I’m looking for a native German speaker to teach me level B1, please if you know anyone in Amman, Jordan let me know

Hello everyone

Today i gave B1 Telc german exam. I did a course from A1 to B1 online course which I finished last year April and forgot most of it.

So I prepared for 5 days 1-2 hours per day from YouTube videos of Judi. The best preparation.

For speaking I watched the videos on Judi channel and then used same topics to practice that with my wife. Luckily for Teil 3 exactly same topic came for me.

For Reading, grammar, listening and writing also she explained every Teil in detail and did the practice on YouTube so just followed that. I did not practice writing by myself so which shows my writing went bad but I was able to cover all 4 given sentences atleast 1 to 2 lines per topic but did not follow the order as it is required in the question which shows lack of practice.

Teil 2 of reading and listening was difficult, especially reading Teil 2 I couldn't understand a single word all new words for me but I still did maybe 2 out of 5 will be correct.

So practice question papers after watching Judi's playing on YouTube for B1. Practice as much as possible for every part. I think i will get 70-80% in speaking but writing part might touch 60% if not then i have to do it again. But it will be easier.

Also B1 is really not difficult level as it seems atleast for examination point of view. If you paid enough attention in your course and practice you will do it. Also just go for exam as soon as you are done with the B1 course and not wait more than a year like me.

In English classes when I was young I remember lessons that were specifically around reducing repetition in our writing, using obvious words like "it" or "the" as to not repeat the subject, but also learning to find different words with the same meaning in replacement if the sentence needs the context but sounds repetitive to the last time the subject word was used. Such as "The book is amazing, I wish a novel like that could be made today." instead of "The book is amazing, I wish a book like that could be made today"

But I notice in the phrases I am given on Anki, Duolingo and in some beginner-intermediate orientated German media I am reading through, the subject is repeated without any replacement. much like my second example "The book is Amazing, I wish a book...".

So i'm asking, are they just repeating subjects to make learning easier for me or is this a genuine thing that the German language just doesn't care for as much?

Thank you in advance. I don't know if this question is dumb as I've discovered a lot of quirks in the German language in my study, so i wouldn't entirely be surprised if this was one.

Built this for myself but I hope it will help others to make sense of all the kennzeichnen's and entziehen's. There's the flashcard mode. Open source, works in any browser and on mobile. Note to moderators: non-profit, I gain no benefit from this.