This Way I Learned the German Language in Germany

By Tirso Jose Alecoy

German language for English speakers, textbook and exercises in elementary and middle level. The gramar and pronunciation are explained in English step by step.
The main misión of this book is to explain the German grammar systematically. The most important thing to the student is to get a strong foundation in this the language. Cause this language is quite logical, if it is changed a little the grammatical structure the people will not be able to understand what you want to say, in other words, a little change has big effect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tirso Jose Alecoy
• Release date: Dec 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311228352

Tirso Jose Alecoy

EspañolMi nombre es Tirso Jose Alecoy, vivo en Santiago de Chile, soy economista de ciencias empresariales, soy editor de libros tecnicos, relacionados con el coaching e idiomas.Estudie en la universidad de Bonn y en la universidad de ciencias aplicadas en Giessen, ambas universidades se situan en Alemania. Mi jobbies son: estudiar idiomas y tocar guitarra clasica.El lector puede bajar en su computador el programa de firefox en este enlace: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/epubreader/ , para obtener y leer los libros en formatos E-pub.Hi, It me, my name is Tirso Jose Alecoy, I'm from Chile, I'm an economist, I studied in Germany.Since about 4 years I've edited technical books, the most them are in Spanish. But soon I'll translate these in English. Please, for more information about my work show my books and video.At the moment I'm working out a book for learning classical guitar for beginner.Here you can buy the formats E-pub and Kindle mobi. You can download the firefox sofware to get and read the books on your computer: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/epubreader/DeutschHallo liebe Lesern und Leserinen: ich danke Ihnen für den Besuch meines Profils und für ihren Einkauf, falls sie das getan haben.Sie koennen diese Biucher auf ihrem computer unterladen und in format E-pub lesen: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/epubreader/

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This way I learned the German language in Germany

By Tirso Jose Alecoy

Published by Tirso Jose Alecoy at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 Tirso Jose Alecoy

ISBN: 9781311228352

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Santiago de Chile, on 15 diciembre de 2014

Chapter 1: Preface and basic German grammar

Vorwort (Preface)

This book is intended for English speakers, who want to learn the German language,

The book's author studied economics at the University of Bonn and studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences at the Technical University of Giessen, Germany

In the early 80s, the author began learning German the elementary level in the Ruhr University in Bochum, and then attended an intensive course for advanced German in a well-known institute, called Okumenisches Studentenwerk e.V, in the same city.

in the middle 80s I moved to Bonn to attend the Studienkolleg at the University of Bonn. The Studienkolleg is an initial course that a foreign student must absorb before getting an admission in a German university.

Now what is the best way to learn German? First, to attend an intensive course and spend much time studying, reading, and listening German. The best way to practice this language is to live together with people who do not speak your language.

It's great if you have German friends, but they never have time to socialize with people, less with foreigner persons. So I recommend to live in a home for students or live in community (Wohngemeinschaft), ie, sharing an apartment or a house with three or four residents

But to share an apartment you have to be open minded, because it is is not easy to understand the habits and the personality other person. The disadvantage of living in community is that the student will not have much privacy, and there are frictions among roommates, if you are not a flexible and tolerant guy then you have to look for a student residence.

Another important thing, you have to get used to the German food, it can be quite different from the food in your country. The most appropriate and inexpensive place to eat is in the canteens of universities (Mensa), there can eat anyone who looks like a student, of course if you are not already enrolled in a university or college, you have to pay a little more for your food

Now, I'll say a few words about the construction of this book. The English speakers will have some trouble with German language, because the German alphabet has just one pronunciation and it is pronounced as it is written. For this reason the English-speaking student must dedicate more time to the pronunciation and also to the grammatical part, above all, to identify the gender of nouns

The most complex part of German grammar are the declensions, cause they have to be declined: the definite and indefinite articles, adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, etc., according to the noun gender.

My recommendation here is this, the student must try to understand from begin of the book, i.e., you must understand the grammar step by step, until the end of the book.

An elephant must be devoured by small preys. You cannot devour it all at once, with a lot of motivation and perseverance, you can achieve it. Good luck!

The most complex part of German grammar are the declensions, because they have to be declined: the definite and indefinite articles, adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, etc., according to the noun gender.

My recommendation here is this, the student must try to understand from begin of the book, ie you must understand the grammar step by step, until the end of the book. An elephant must be devoured by small preys. And you cannot devour it all at once, with a lot of motivation and perseverance, you can achieve it. Good luck!

Inhalt

1. Das deutsche Alphabet und die deutsche Vokalen..........

1.1 Das Alphabet..............

1.2 Die Vokalen und die Diphtongierung/Vowels and diphthongs.......

2. Die bestimmten und unbestimmten Artikeln/Definite and undefinite articles...

2.1 Die bestimmten Artikeln (Definete articles)........

2.2 Die Unbestimmten Artikeln (The indefinite articles).......

3. Die personalpronomen im Nominativ (Personal Pronouns in the nominative)

3.1 Satzbau (Structure of sentences)........

3.2 Das Adjektiv und die Deklination (The declensions of attributive adjectives)...

4. Bejahen und Verneinen Personen oder Sachen (Affirm and deny persons or things)..

5. Wie bildet man den Plural? (How we build the plural)..

6. Die Verben und die Zeitformen: Indikativ Präsent (The verbs in present tense)

6.1 Die Konjugation einiger regelmäßigen Verben (some regular verbs) .

7. Personalpronomen (Personal pronouns in three cases: nominative, accusative and dative) …

8. Die Präpositionen (The prepositions)

9. Die unpersönlichen Pronomen (indefinite pronoun man= one and „es=it")...

9.1 Verwendung des unpersönliche Pronomen es( use of the impersonal pronoun it).....

9.2 Verwendung des unpersönliche Pronomen „man(Using the impersonal pronoun one or you").....

9.3 The indefinite pronouns that are also used: jemand (somebody) or niemand (noone)

10. Fragepronomen (Interrogative pronouns)

11. Die Konjunktionen (The conjunctions).....

12. Die Modalverben (The modal verbs).......

13. Die Demonstrativpronomen/Demonstrative pronouns...

14. Das Possesivpronomen (Possessive pronouns)....

15. Das Adverb (The adverb)……

16. Die Wortzusammensetzung (Compound nouns)......

17. Reflexivpronomen (pronombres reflexivos).....

18. Die Grundzahlen, die Ordnungszahlen und die Bruchzahlen.....

18.1 Die Grundzahlen/Cardinal numerals.......

18.2 Die Ordnungszahlen (Ordinal numbers).......

18.3 Die Bruchzahlen/Fraction......

18.4 Die Uhrzeit (the watch and the time)

18.5 Grundmathematik/ Elementary mathematic......

19. Die Zeitformen von Verben (The tenses of verbs).......

19.1 Das Futur I (The future I)…

19.2 Konditional I (conditional I) (present of subjunctive II)…

20. Die Vergangenheitform (The past tense)...................

20.1.1 Die Regelmäßigen Verben (Regular verbs)......

20.1.2 Die gemischte form (The mixed form regular and irregular verbs).....

20.1.3 Die unregelmäßigen Verben (the irregular verbs).......

20.2 Das Perfekt/ The perfect tense.........

20.3 Das Plusquamperfekt/ The Pluperfect.......

21. Verben verbunden mit Präpositionen und Adverbien (Phrasal verbs)....

21.1 Fragepronomen in Akkusativ und in Dativ bezogen auf Personen (Interrogative pronoun).....................

21.2 Die Verben + Präpositionen bezogen auf Sachen.

(Phrasal verbs in relation to objects) ……

22. Bildung der Modalverben in der Vergangenheit........

23. Drei Stufigen Adjektiv: der Komparativ, Gleichheit und der Superlativ...

23.1 Der Komparativ (The comparative)...........

23.2 Äquivalenz und Ähnlichkeit (Equivalence and similarity)…

23.3 Der Superlativ (The superlative).............

24. Nebensätze und die Genitivspräpositionen.............

24.1 Die wichtigen gebrauchten Genitivpräpositionen..........

24.2 Die Konjunktionen statt Genitiv Präpositionen (The conjunctions instead genitive prepositions).............

25. Satzbau mit „daß-sätzen (der Nebensatz „daß= that" subordinate conjunction)..

26. Relativsätze (Relative clausel)..............

26. 1 Die Relativpronomen (the relative clauses).............

26.2 Relativsätze mit Präpositionen (Relative clause with prepositions)....

27. Der Imperative nur im Präsens und in die Aktivform........

28. Das Futur II...........................

29. Der Konjunktiv II (Subjunctive II)..........

29.1 Konjunktiv II der Vergangenheitsform (Subjunctive II in past tense)....

29.2 Konjunktiv II mit Modalverben (The subjunctive and the modal verbs).....

30. Das Passiv (passive voice)..............

31. Die Nominalisierung (The nominalization).........

31.1 Nominalisierung von: Verben, Adjektiven und Modalverben......

32. Die Indirekte Rede (IR) (The Indirect speech)…

1. Das deutsche Alphabet und die deutsche Vokalen

1.1 Das Alphabet

1.2 Die Vokalen und die Diphtongierung/Vowels and diphthongs

Übung: (Exercises)

Bitte, sprechen Sie folgende Wörter aus. Schauen Sie die Tabellen an

Look the pronunciation at the chart and read (pronounce) the following sentences clear and loud!

Die Häuser, ein Kind, ein Mädchen; Freulein Müller, ich spreche Deutsch/Englisch

Der Zug fährt nach Bonn; sie ißt Reis, Klaus möchte Brötchen; nächster Bahnhof ist Köln; Frau Klein; Herr Bauer

Meine Freundin heißt Rita; Ich gehe in die Universität; für ihren Brüder; fünf Minuten; er heißt Peter; ich heiße Hans, höhe Bäume

2. Die bestimmten und unbestimmten Artikeln/Definite and undefinite articles

The articles are classified into definite and indefinite. In German the articles have their own particularity. In English there is just a neutral article the and indefinite articles: a, an. In English all nouns are neutral, but in German is very different and much more complex.

In German a noun can have different genders: masculine, feminine or neuter.

In addition to that if you have a sentence with two or more objects or subject, this sentence can be taken 4 cases: nominative, accusative (direct object), dative (indirect object) or genitive. The endings of the adjectives must be declined, depending on the noun gender and number, the case of the sentences and depending on the preposition that precedes the noun.

There are few tricks by which we can identify the gender of a noun. They'll tell you later.

Generally, the attributive adjectives stand before the noun, while prepositions come before these types of adjectives. According to this premise we have following structure:

Articles/preposition/demonstrative and possessive pronouns + attribute adjective + nouns + verb.

Example: der alter Mann läuft auf die Strasse

In the plural case, the attributive adjectives change their endings, sometimes it changes the noun endings as well. This fact makes difficult the German language for foreign students.

2.1 Die bestimmten Artikeln (Definete articles)

As you probably know, the definite articles are used to identify: gender and number of the noun (singular or plural). The first thing you should learn is that in the German articles will change its form (suffix) according to: gender, number and case.

Please, pay special attention to the stem of the letter d how it changes it depends on gender, number and cases (nominative, accusative, dative and genitive). It is very important to study this chart, because we

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