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The story of vor, nach and für

Sudeep — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:09:42 +0000

It is getting a little clearer with the distinction between dativ and akkusativ. The dativ part of a sentence is basically the action which is not performed right now. Akkusative is more like the action you are directly referring to.

The questions like “with whom?” and “with which person?” are referred to as “mit wem?” and “mit welcher Person?”. Remembering to whom the sentence is referring to helps identify the nominative and hence figure out which his/her form can be used to replace it. For example,

Die Nachbarin von Herr Rahn, wohnt uber Herr Rahn.

Where the underlined nominative could be replaced by Seine Nachbarin.

A confusing word we learned is “absagen” which is a “trennbares verb” and used in a sentence like “Ich sage ab” (I cancel) which is similar to “Ich sage” but then it means “I say”!!The “ab” changes the meaning of the word completely so when you listen to a sentence you have to hear the whole sentence before jumping onto a conclusion. When you are reading its fine go back and look the previous words and find a fit but when you are listening I think this could be challenging.

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Dativ

Sudeep — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:43:44 +0000

We dived into Dativ today and it is not as scary as I thought it would be. Also, we learned about the locator words like vor, neben, hinter and über. No, it’s not the same as calling a uber. Über means over which is somewhat similar to English (with a thick British accent).
For the getting the article right you have to know the gender of the object. Seems like it all comes down to remembering if the object is a masculine, feminine or neutral. Since there is no trick to remembering this. You have to memorize for all the words in the German dictionary. Even synonyms can have different gender so the gender is really based on the word rather than the object itself.
I think this is the biggest problem everyone finds in German but it’s not the only language which has this. Some of the other languages I know like Hindi and Bengali also have a gender associated to the object. But I don’t remember memorizing the gender there when I was learning those languages and it just came to the students with time and practice. So, I am not stressing out about gender right now.

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Nicht oder Kein

Sudeep — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:49:04 +0000

Wow we finished A1.1 and started A1.2. So unreal!
A little about myself, your blogger for the month.
I moved to Munich from NY with my partner with no German knowledge. After a couple of months of job search, I figured out that without German it’s hard to find a job in Germany. After a quick google search of the available schools teaching German in Munich we found out about DeutschAkademie.

The first month with our fabulous teacher went so fast! We had students from India, South Korea, China, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Poland and Russia and had a wide range of ages from 20’s to the 60’s. So don’t let your age or ethnicity stop you from taking the course. The classes are all in German but our teacher was multilingual. Our A1.1 class ended with an amazing snack break with our wonderful classmates. Comment below if you want to know what each item is!

A1.1 course finished last week and for the first time in a while we did not have any homework. A break which I could have utilized a little better studying German but I was busy applying for jobs and enjoying Tollwood summer festival. We left A1.1 by going over different forms of a verb in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular and plural. We also learned about regular and irregular and trennbare verbs. We also did nominative and akkusative forms in a sentence. We ended by going over sentences in Perfekt form (Present Perfect). Now I just have to transfer it to my brain, easy huh!

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