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 #1 Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 31/12/2009 @ 13:31 |
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This is a bit of a random topic but here goes
I get the impression some of you are living and/or working overseas and therefore speak other languages. So i wanted to see if you had any tips.
What you found useful and if you took proper lessons and if so where.
I want to start to learn german properly this year with an aim to start applying for jobs in switzerland as half my family are over there. I have a basic book learnt understanding but i am no way conversational and im not sure thats really enough of a basis for working and applying for jobs. |
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| #2 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 31/12/2009 @ 15:58 |
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I get 1 1/2 hours a week of French lessons through work, and I took Spanish lessons at evening classes a few years back.
Get in touch with a local HE college and see what they have to offer by the way of evening classes. At the term start times (Easter/Sept) you may get something with your free local paper detailing courses on offer. They're usually to A level / C&G standard, but some offer basic levels too such as beginners, holiday, GCSE etc.
In terms of practice, I use mine daily having to read documentation, emails, write minutes for meetings and answer the phone to my colleagues in France. To supplement that I've got some podcasts which I've got on my phone and listen to in the car.
The Spanish is hardest to keep alive as I don't use it as much. |
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| #3 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 04/01/2010 @ 16:50 |
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thanks for your reply. Ill check out the local college. Anyone else? |
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| #4 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 04/01/2010 @ 17:01 |
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not done one but would be interested in finding out what you think of them when you book it as it is on my New Year's Resolutions List!  |
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| #5 Re: German Lessons. Where to find them in London? Posted 22/01/2010 @ 10:22 |
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| #6 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 22/01/2010 @ 10:37 |
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QUOTE (em - 04/01/2010 @ 17:01) not done one but would be interested in finding out what you think of them when you book it as it is on my New Year's Resolutions List!
ill teach you em.............the course cost is £42....  |
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I do NOT fear Death - I fear not living..........er.........and small people with very large hands!
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| #7 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 22/01/2010 @ 10:47 |
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haha - how many weeks?  |
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| #8 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 22/01/2010 @ 10:58 |
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| #9 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 22/01/2010 @ 11:04 |
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I know it was, I reckonised the price - thought I would take you up on lessons though!  |
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| #10 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 22/01/2010 @ 11:15 |
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QUOTE (markxrat - 04/01/2010 @ 16:50) thanks for your reply. Ill check out the local college. Anyone else?
there are other options here is the links but as i said they dont look cheap 
German language/snowboard instructor combined course
and this is for lessons alone
German courses in london
Andy |
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I do NOT fear Death - I fear not living..........er.........and small people with very large hands!
www.bushidokaikarate.webs.com |
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| #11 Re: Help: Learning German/Lessons/Working overseas Posted 22/01/2010 @ 11:22 |
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QUOTE (em - 22/01/2010 @ 11:04) I know it was, I reckonised the price - thought I would take you up on lessons though!
hey em seriously i'd teach you......if the price is right in fact maybe i should start offering lesson on here for GB members?? could help me through this horrible credit crunch, and the beauty of it is, it would not be a stuffy situation, just like minded people having fun learning a new language at a leisurely pace...... im quite likeing the sound of this more and more haha
let me know if your seriously interested and ill put together a course content that better suits real life than the school courses..
(p.s dont worry if your not, ill look into it anyway )
Andy |
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I do NOT fear Death - I fear not living..........er.........and small people with very large hands!
www.bushidokaikarate.webs.com |
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| #12 Re: German Lessons. Where to find them in London? Posted 22/01/2010 @ 11:42 |
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I've been in Austria 4 1/2 years now and can get by ok. Talk German everyday at work. I did a evening class at City and Islington College before I came over here. The teacher was Swiss so a different dialect but she spoke in high German for the course. I would say doing the course is great for your confidence. Stuck in a room for 2 hours with people of the same level is a great laugh and most importantly there is no real pressure. Can't recommend it enough. Good luck with it. |
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| #13 Re: German Lessons. Where to find them in London? Posted 22/01/2010 @ 11:42 |
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I've also heard good things about a language learning software called Rosetta Stone which might be worth a punt |
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I've been all over the world, Ibiza, Magaluf, Blackpool etc and Tamworth was by far the best for snowsports!! It's intense man!!! You're totally gripped when you're at the top and looking down...
Snowboard Wales Facebook Group |
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| #14 Re: German Lessons. Where to find them in London? Posted 22/01/2010 @ 12:11 |
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bloody laptop  just wrote massive rteply and it didnt send it???
the gist of it was...... looked at the current crop of tools for learning german (books/cd's) for learning and they are still crap...wrong words, worog phrases, wrong mix of formal and informal (very important in germany) so my tipis to have someone who knows the difference so you can learn correctly....... all tutors will tech you using one of these books, but most of them wont see/know what is wrong wiht the text being used if they dont REALLY speak the language as someone who lives in germany would...
german is a very difficult language to learn wiht its "3 words for yes" and formal and informal sentences depending on the persons you are talking to's sex, age ,status etc... and eve3ryhting falls into a catagory or male, female, object.... very hard, andif you start off on the worng foot you have no chance at all.......you will just be babbling rubbish that nobody will understand ( and the germans are not shy at telling you your doing it wrong!!! but at the same time not telling you how to do it right lol)
Andy |
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I do NOT fear Death - I fear not living..........er.........and small people with very large hands!
www.bushidokaikarate.webs.com |
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| #15 Re: German Lessons. Where to find them in London? Posted 22/01/2010 @ 12:33 |
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ok im seriously thnking about doing this in my spare time, if onyl to give me somehting to do lol..
i speak fluent german, my wife IS german and i lived and worked in germany for 8 years (no english spoken during this time) im a fun guy who loves boarding.......
thats ALL the qualifications i have on the subject.... im being honest and upfront... if anyone would be interested in taking basic/introductory german (the kind that will get you talking in normal conversations, as natives do) then let me know.... i can teach all levels but those with no knowledge at all will learn from the basics upwards.
cheers
Andy  |
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I do NOT fear Death - I fear not living..........er.........and small people with very large hands!
www.bushidokaikarate.webs.com |
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