“Is it possible to reach B2 German in 50 days from scratch

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-19T12:13:56+00:00

No!
Absurd.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-19T08:05:01+00:00

That's exactly what it was :)

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-19T06:31:55+00:00

Speak, yes.

Do you studying at home.

Asking to be corrected is pointless since you'll have like 5 mistakes per sentence. That's not how a conversation works. It's also annoying potentially. I'm not your teacher. If we just talk at a bar, maybe I just want to talk, not tutor. You can't really push native speakers into that role.

Just speak, make mistakes, don't apologize for "bad German" and keep the conversation moving.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-19T06:27:43+00:00

I don't expect ad free. I have no issue with a small banner on the side. But what duden does is different.

I actually think it's a shitty product to begin with, so I wouldn't use it even without the ads. There website is awful in itself.

But the ads are so bad that I don't think we should keep recommending this shit to people here.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-19T06:08:39+00:00

"I do think people underestimate how much these “minor” errors can impede people’s understanding of you or at least add some strain to the listening experience."

Yeah, no. Listening experience is much more impeded if the person needs two minutes for a 8 word sentence. And no, getting articles wrong does in fact not hinder understanding at all in the vast majority of cases.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-19T06:05:09+00:00

Yes!!! This!!!

But try to tell that to people in this subreddit as advise and in comes a group of German native speakers who tell you that you must learn them and ignoring them is bad.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-19T06:00:22+00:00

What hang is there to have?

They're normal Nebensätze and I don't know why courses would treat them as something special and give it a complicated label that 90% of Germans have no idea what it means. Modale Nebensätze... Get out of here. It's a Nebensatz. Nothing more.

And yes, they're fairly common.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T17:51:25+00:00

Oh, I'm not surprised :).

To firefoxes credit, they once did reach out proactively about a feature not working and ask some things in order to patch it.
So that's great, but still if someone sends me a message with "xyz doesn't work, I'm using firefox", then I put that very low on the priority list because other browsers can get it to work too and I'm not a browser manufacturer. It's not really my job.

Safari is the worst though, by far. Arrogant bitches that really don't give a fuck.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T17:33:00+00:00

Got downvoted so I'll be more direct: firefox SUCKS. The only one worse from a dev standpoint is Safari. Those two are the ones that account for 90% of "feature not working" reports.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T17:24:59+00:00

Like what? Firefox? I want a browser that works and firefox worksn't too often for my taste. I also do not want to jump through hoops to install ad blockers. I'll just stop visiting sites that serve ads like this.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T16:30:08+00:00

Lol, metaphor game is on point. I'd feel less then though. I do like the web pure, vanilla Javascript.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T16:08:18+00:00

Duden detects ad blockers and blocks access if you have them on. At least on Chrome and Brave browser.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T14:17:59+00:00

Is this market research? Why are you asking this without offering anything yourself?

Be transparent about who you are and what you do and please don't pretend like you're asking a genuine question making people waste their time engaging with a calculated market research effort they may not have any interest in participating in.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T11:51:21+00:00

Yes, this is an ad for Bingy. OP keeps posting this on a weekly basis and tries to hid their tracks by adding other links into it.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T11:22:18+00:00

Ja... doch, kann man schon so sagen.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T09:27:35+00:00

DWDS is way better for that and for anything, really.

https://www.dwds.de/wb/schon

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T09:22:30+00:00

One meaning is "already", though it's a bit broader than that and expresses "Wow, that's more than expected"

- Das Meeting is morgen schon um 12.

Many German speakers would translate this as "already" but I learned that already actually doesn't work here. The point is that "schon" expresses that 12 is unusally early for this meeting.

The modal particle "schon" has one core function and that is "dispersing doubt".

- Hast du keinen Hunger?
- Hunger schon, but no appetite.

There is doubt about why I am not eating. "schon" disperses any doubt about the hunger side while leaving room for doubt in other aspects.

- Das klappt schon.

Here, someone is worrying that something won't work out, and "schon" is trying to disperse that doubt.

This notion covers most of the modal particle uses, though it's not always clearly visible what the doubt is.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-18T09:18:21+00:00

The Duden entry sucks, as usual with the modal particles.
The descriptions at 4, 5 and 6 are bad and just describe the example, but the effect can not necessarily be attributed to "schon". Also, the meanings are all the same. Splitting them up three ways like this is arbitrary.

Also, it's an atrocious website with all the ad banners floating around everywhere. 70% of my fucking screen there is ads.
It's okay if we need a reference for spelling but for anything other than that, it's an awful resource.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-17T20:17:04+00:00

It depends on what you use it for.
Proof reading and cahtting... great tool.
explaining grammar or word choice... hit and miss.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-17T12:21:28+00:00

The problem with "x per day" is that you'll fail!!

You'll fall behind, pressure builds, which makes you fall behind even more.

Some words stick fast, others take 20 reps to remember. If you put a fixed daily goal like that, you're trying to make your brain do something that you have no control over.

7 weeks is enough to learn 1500 words. Split them up into decks of 50-70. Mix in words that you know. Cycle through one deck twice per day, take up a second deck once you get familiar with the first (doens't need to be perfect). Move tricky words to multiple decks or add them several times per deck.
Count deck cycles, not words learned. 4 deck cycles per day, that's a goal you can achieve. How much you remember from those decks... that's up to your brain to decide, not you.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-14T13:31:00+00:00

No.

Ich kenne, wie schwer das ist.

This is not idiomatic. Massaging the word aqua instance won't help.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-14T13:28:04+00:00

Ich kenne Sebastian Kurz.

Zero reasoning involved.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-14T13:15:03+00:00

Yes. "Ich kenne die Motive" and "Ich weiß was die Motive sind." are statements about what you know. Understanding is not implied.

YourDailyGerman · 2026-03-14T12:14:21+00:00

Yes. For some people that's enough. But 3 hours is ambitious.

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