My Top 8 Tips For Learning German (or any language!) | Feli from Germany

What are YOUR tips for learning a language or learning German specifically? Let us know in the comments! 👇 I’d also like to add a disclaimer that I forgot to mention in the video: Everyone is different and that applies to learning languages too. We have different strength and weaknesses and study methods that work for others might not work for you, so it’s important to find the right way for YOU and also making the language learning process as much fun as possible to stay motivated! 😊 ++Sign up for the Link EUS language classes here ▸www.link-eus.com/language and use the code GGIA60 for a $60 discount (=20%)!

People learning German: Man, learning that language is freaking hard! Turkish: Haha, I accumulate entire phrases into one super-compound word! Polish: Haha, I have grammatical cases like German, but I have seven instead of four! Hungarian: Haha, I basically do what Turkish and Polish do COMBINED! Icelandic: Haha, I'm basically Ancient Norse with all the grammar rules that come with it, but my pronunciation is also total gobbledygook! Finnish: Haha, behold my super-massive gramatically diverse compound words and vocabulary that is totally different from any other European language! (sad Estonian noises) Arabic: Haha, my standard language is virtually never really spoken and my dialects are almost unintelligible to each other! "Vote now on your phone for your dialect of choice" go BRRRRR!!! Chinese: I'm a freaking TONAL language so even if you know every single sound, depending on your voice pitch you could say "horse" instead of "mother". All of the previously mentioned: Man... that last guy's scary...

My biggest regret is that when I was endeavoring to learn German, was not writing down the words. There was a fellow soldier in my unit who carried a small note pad and pen all day and disciplined himself to write down five different German words, each day, each word 20 times. Consequently he learned faster than the rest of us and developed his reading and spelling skills. That I didn't do that, I think is the reason I have lost so much of the language. I am trying to re learn and endeavor to at lest return to the skill level that I once had, not so much that I intend to have an opportunity to use it, but mostly as a brain strain exorcise because I am now at the age when I could start to lose mental cognition. So hopefully it will be an exorcise that keeps the neurons firing in my brain lobes.

My favorite saying is “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.” I think that fits well with the first tip :)

6:30 - Feli grows up learning English listening to English songs on the radio. David Hasselhoff: "You're welcome..."

When I get discouraged I imagine my great grandparents looking down at me saying "Now Karl, we spoke German so you can too. Just keep going".

Thank you Feli!!! I'm taking a German Class in college the spring semester!!! Wish me luck 🍀

Awesome information and links to help with the language! I've followed you for about a year and a half now and this is one of my favorite videos in regards to the content covered and advice given. This one is going to help a lot of people!

Du bist wirklich sympathisch. Macht Spaß, deine Videos anzuschauen.

Helpful to focus on phrases and words that go together. Thanks for the Spotify playlist!-

Thank you so freaking much for the spotify lists!!! I have been trying to learn german since a while now and I´m sure I haven´t been able to pick it up just yet because I haven´t found enough german music that I really like, you really just did me a solid !!

Recently added German to my Duolingo courses on the back of subbing to your channel Feli, thank you so much for all your content

Love your enthusiasm, Liebling! 🤠

Good tips. 40 years ago, I had a job with a german company. I was needed to communicate with americans and sound like an american. German was not a requirement, but I knew it would be better for me and more fun if I picked it up. When I had time, I read what german I could find and listend to my mitarbeitern. When I had a break, I would speak with a german who needed to improve in english. We both improved in each others language as we stumbled through our conversations. This was a great opportunity. Another tip was singing Oktoberfest songs and drinking beer. That was 40 years ago. Since then I have noticed some of my german has been forgotten, a sort of lingunistic.alzheimers disease. The songs are still there but I need to brush up on my conversation.

Great Video! Gute Tipps! Notizbuch und verschiedene Farbstifte kann ich auch sehr empfehlen!

Hey Feli your channel was mentioned in article about local Youtubers in the Cincinnati Enquirer today! Yay!

I discovered your channel few weeks ago, but I like it, you do a great job, I'm crazy about German, a wonderful language.

Danke Feli, this was very helpful! I only started learning German a couple of months ago (excited to commit) but I’ve been lost on finding different ways to continue. Right now I’m only using Duolingo, which I’m using for starting those basics words and sentence structures (like you were saying). My thoughts/hopes were that maybe this could help before I attend classes. Maybe it would give me an edge on the class lol. Also never even consider watching a movie or song I already knew, but in German!

These songs are AMAZING! Thank you so so much!!!!

* Just started learning German and your advice about listening , writing and immersing yourself is spot on, Thanks!