Studying German!
By Jessica
@missjessicadawn (3286)
United States
January 24, 2017 7:39pm CST
One of my new year's resolutions was to brush up on my German and study more of it. I was born in Germany and understood so much of it when I was younger. Now that I'm older and out of touch with my German family, I've forgotten most of it. I started up an account on a site called duolingo.com and I've started studying again. I'm surprised at how quickly it's all coming back to me. I'll see some words and now immediately that I used to know them. Once I get their translation, it's like "Oh yeah! Now I remember!" lol According to the site, I am now 15% fluent in German. lol I still have a ways to go but I'm really enjoying this! There are many other languages to learn on this site, too, if you wanna try it out!
What language have you always wanted to learn?
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@libster (167)
• Richland, Washington
25 Jan 17
That's great Jessica! Wunderbar! Duolingo is wonderful for phrases and words, or a bit of brushing up like you're doing. They've got a ton of languages, and more coming all the time. I used their German for quite a while, just to keep practicing.
Good luck, and have fun!
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
Thank you! I'm having a lot of fun with it! I'm excited to try a new language once I'm done with German! :-)
@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
@libster Russian would be hard! I'd like to try out Korean but it's not available yet!
@libster (167)
• Richland, Washington
25 Jan 17
@missjessicadawn I'm just thrilled that they've added Russian!
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
25 Jan 17
I do speak and read French and when I am in Germany, I dabble in German.I also know a few words of Flemish.
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
I've never heard of Flemish... Where do they speak it? I've always wanted to learn French... I may try to learn that next! :-)
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
25 Jan 17
@missjessicadawn The western half of Belgium. It is almost Dutch.
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
@BelleStarr That's awesome! :-)
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
25 Jan 17
I had French in high school and college. I'm really in need of a site to improve how to speak and write before I do any traveling overseas. My husband speaks fluent German.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
26 Jan 17
@missjessicadawn I should buy a headset, as that would be great before we go overseas in about 5 years. Its always good to learn new languages.
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
Try out duolingo.com
If you have a headset with a microphone, you can repeat the phrases and it tells you how you do! It's very nice! :-)
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@youless (112561)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Jan 17
In fact there are German Mylotters here. Perhaps you can learn much from them. English is a main foreign language here. We start to learn it since we were children. Besides it, actually I also want to learn French. I learned a little bit of it but I found it quite difficult compares to English.
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@youless (112561)
• Guangzhou, China
26 Jan 17
@missjessicadawn I agree with you that French is difficult. But I think German isn't easy, too
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
27 Jan 17
@youless It isn't, but I think I got lucky because I was born there. I grew up listening to German and I know all the basics already. It's given me a good head start. :-)
@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
Yeah, I've found a few of the German Mylotters here. :-)
I would also like to learn French but it does seem very difficult.
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@TheInvisibleMan (17597)
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25 Jan 17
15% fluente in German? That's very good, isn't it? 
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
I want to learn more languages after I finish German. I'm debating between Spanish, French, Italian, or Russian. :-)
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
25 Jan 17
I studied French in college very long ago. But I visited Italy once and love the Italian language.
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
Italian has a great sound to it. It's also one of the others I would love to study. :-)
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Jan 17
You are actually German?
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
Yes. My mother was German and my dad was in the military. They got married in Germany and had me. I lived there for a few years before moving to America. :-)
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@rina110383 (24492)
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25 Jan 17
I had Spanish lessons in the past. I want to master that language.
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
25 Jan 17
It's one of the languages I would love to try next. I also studied it in the past. :-)
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