BECOME A GOAT! 🐐 Top 5 GERMAN MISTAKES & How to Fix Them

Ready to BECOME A GOAT at German? 🐐 In this video, we dive into the Top 5 Common GERMAN MISTAKES that learners often make and show you how to fix them! Whether you're just starting or want to refine your skills, these tips will help you level up your German and avoid common pitfalls.

What You'll Learn:
Correcting German pronunciation mistakes 🗣️
Fixing word order issues 🔄
Mastering German gender rules ⚖️
Handling tricky prepositions 🛑
Improving reflexive pronoun usage 🔍
These practical tips will help you BECOME A GOAT in German, whether you're a beginner or looking to perfect your skills. If you found this video helpful, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to Definitely German for more language lessons and tips. Let’s conquer German together! 🇩🇪

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[morganschiller]

The problem people have with languages, for me German was you have to study something you really like. For me it started with Rammstein, then I started reading mountain rescue stuff, then welding. You have to read what interests you. ;)

[fridab]

the thing about the articles, you are totally right, when learning german as a spanish native speaker you can overlook that!
great tips!!

[krsadremre]

"I wanna be the very best like noone ever was" that's something familiar :)

[Pelarmar]

I couldn't agree more on listening to native speakers. In English, we will normally drop the g in ing verbs as well. Like, "He is playin' with his friend outside." When I learned German, I also watched German television shows and movies. I also know sometimes in German you will drop vowels off of verbs. z.B. "Ich hab' das immer gemocht" Definitely, I would recommend listening to natives.

[jonathanlovesadventure]

the mistakes I see people make in learning a language is that they do not make it fun and keep judging themselves on how bad they are. Just keep going and get as much as you can.

[nightsparkles]

All the tips you've shared are the ones I've already done myself. Because I've took French in high school and (yes I took the fluent in 3 months) and learn the pitfalls of having a textbook in your face versus learning it like a small child. When I thought about my baby niece and how she learned a few English words at a time, ever since day one, my mind became a sponge and then, I go back and break it down and learned the formal AND informal terms.

And yes, I have a German native friend who corrects my spelling :)

[RPSchonherr]

Not sure if people remember 1st year of school or maybe even as far back as before that and learning your native language, but that's how to learn a language. Mamma points to something and calls it what it is and when you get it right she says, "Yes, that's a ____." Then they'll read a picture book to you and on and on until you can say the words and understand what they mean and even read on your own. Then, you always have someone around speaking that language. Lessons can teach you some basics but immersion will get you there faster. Want to learn German? Be around people who speak it. Verstehe?

[sleepybubbi]

Just came across this video on my recommended and this was super helpful 😊 i've been having one on one German lessons with a tutor for the last ten weeks or so, and she has said some of these things! I'm finding that there is lots of grammar to learn..!! But I'm having fun with it 😊

[derekheeps]

My best tip is to go and LIVE the language .

I took six years of French at school ( 50 years ago ), got my qualifications and was reasonably fluent back then, but never used it and have now forgotten most of it .

On the other hand, I never studied any German formally, but I went and lived in germany for a while, dated a German girl for over a year and just picked up the language by listening and speaking .

Even now, some 40 years on, I can understand German people when they talk, and can strike up a conversation . While I do know some written German, and can read some text - particularly technical German since I have always worked with classic Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz vehicles, and had to search through technical literature, sometimes with the help of friends, these things just stuck .

To the extent that, when in Italy, and I don't speak Italian ) I ended up conversing in German with italians who don't speak English ; similarly in Tenerife, where there is a large ex pat German community, my rudimentary German served me well .

perhaps the biggest mistake for English speakers is getting the word order wrong, since germans form their sentences differently, and also in numbers they use the old forms like 'four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie' .

[TaylorSargeant]

Thank you for this video. 😊 I felt like for me personally, I am learning German too slow? Even though each day I see little improvements! I am quite patient but at times it can be frustrating especially the grammar for me. As a English native I still think in English and not all the time comes out perfect in German. I am just trying to understand the grammar a bit more as well as speak to my German partner who has been ever so helpful, patient and supportive of me. I really enjoy your videos and funny enough I have only found your channel recently, but I am glad I have found it 😊

[neavanilla]

How come you're not more known😮 this is all great stuff, you give me.motivation 😪😊

[ledbthand]

#5 is the hardest to reconcile with, for me at least. I grew up learning to speak English in a southern US dialect, and it didn't seem strange to me at all, but after being in the military, and starting to travel and meet new people, from tons of other places and countries, I really became more acutely sensitive to other "similar" dialects, within different subsets of not only English, but, eventually, other languages as well. It's been very difficult for me across 4 languages to not point myself to the "familiar" dialect in my target languages. For instance, "southern US relaxed dialect" = Kansai dialect in Japanese, = Colombian Dialect in Spanish, = rolled R "swagger" dialects in German. At the end of the day really, I keep having to remind myself equally that, none of that matters, and I should just have begun at sticking with standard dialects, with some eventual peppering of idioms and odd words and/or set phrases of the target "end-of-the-road" dialect "one day at a time". :)

[Lizflow]

I still strugle with die, der and das ^^ Nice tshirt by the way ahah xD

[SignedWithBlood]

I spent three years at university ploughing through this. No regrets.

[alwaysuseless]

Good advice. I'd go a half-step further: When you learn a noun, also learn how to form the genitive singular. (The genitive case is similar to the possessive case in English, but also used after certain prepositions.) For example, the word for house is *Haus*. What you need to learn is: *das Haus, des Hauses, die Häuser*. This is the nominative singular, genitive singular, and nominative plural of *Haus* with the appropriate form of the definite article and tells you: *Haus* is neuter, the genitive singular is formed by adding *es*, and the plural changes the *a* to *ä* and adds *er*. This will appear in a good dictionary as: *Haus* _das_; *~es, Häuser*. *Apfel* (apple) is masculine, and the entry will be *Apfel* _der_; *~s, Äpfel*. *Kirche* (church) is feminine, and the genitive singular is the same as the nominative singular, while the plural adds an *n*. The entry will be: *Kirche* _die_; *~, ~n*.

[morganschiller]

VlogDave has taken over Chef John's Food Wishes channel in my heart <3.
I remember my first trip to Germany. Something about a hotel, schnapps, a year round ski resort, a chopper and a krankenhaus.

[schprox]

It took me 7 years to speak think and write and pronounce English like a native.
I already know the process but it's a long way to go haha ..

[goodgood]

Please did you have video on learning German language because to me you are the best teacher l have ever seen

[goodgood]

Vlogdave thanks l love the way you brake it down in English l love that thanks once again

[xprincesskjx]

Thanks for the videos, I learned German in school but didn't try very hard it's only now 8 years later that I'm actually interested in learning so I'm trying to pick it back up. I'm planning a move to Berlin in September so these are really helpful thank you 😄