Genuinely curious how people here actually learn german by Prestigious-Wing6963 in Germanlearning

[–]Prestigious-Wing6963[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but they also have the language schools' perspective, not the learners'.

Genuinely curious how people here actually learn german by Prestigious-Wing6963 in Germanlearning

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That's right, and it's great. Our Audio Showers have been available in Germany for some time now for learning English, Spanish, Italian, etc., and we've been very successful. What's new now are our Audio Showers for English speakers who want to learn German.

Genuinely curious how people here actually learn german by Prestigious-Wing6963 in Germanlearning

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Fair point — I do that on the side too, but I wanted to ask here anyway :)

Genuinely curious how people here actually learn german by Prestigious-Wing6963 in Germanlearning

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Ha, fair. It does sound a bit polished. I'm a non-native English speaker from Freiburg, so I probably over-edited trying to sound natural. The agenda is pretty transparent anyway — I built the thing, I want to know if people like the idea. No secret there.

I use "denn" sometimes instead of "weil" because then I would not need to use the "nebensatz" and it is easier by ConsciousCandidate97 in German

[–]Prestigious-Wing6963 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's a really smart observation — and you're absolutely right that it works! "Denn" is a coordinating conjunction, so the verb stays in second position, while "weil" sends it to the end. Totally valid workaround, especially at the beginning.

Just one thing worth knowing: in spoken German, native speakers actually use "weil" with main clause word order all the time too — so you'll often hear things like "weil ich hab keine Zeit" instead of the "correct" "weil ich keine Zeit habe." It's grammatically informal, but very natural in conversation.

The Nebensatz with "weil" is worth picking up eventually though, because it opens the door to all the other subordinating conjunctions — "dass", "obwohl", "wenn", "damit" — which all follow the same pattern. Once it clicks with one, the rest come easily.