I know you must have heard a lot of stuff about the Deutsch language. Mostly about how difficult it is to learn to speak, write, listen and read in German.

Well, nothing is too difficult to learn.

Lass uns beginnen!
Let’s begin

Take note of the following pronunciation rules

1. V becomes F in pronunciation
Von sounds like Fon (it Sounds like fun doesn’t it?)

2. W becomes V
Wein sounds like vine (remember there’s a link between wine and vine, just a pro tip)

3. S becomes Z whenever it is followed by O
Sohn(son) Sounds Zohn, Sonntag (Sunday) becomes Zonntag

4. S becomes SH when it is followed by P, T, CH
e.g Sport (exercise) sounds as SHPORT
student becomes SHTUNDENT

5. J becomes Y just like in Español
Julia becomes Yulia

6. ß whenever you see this it means double SS
e.g groß tall/long
große size

7. When g is the last letter in a word it is pronounced as k
e.g genug - genuk

8. When a word ends with “ig” it is pronounced as sh
e.g richtig? (Right?) becomes richtish
Schmutzig (dirty) becomes schmutsish
More to come

Gute Nachts alles

Basic Greetings

Guten Morgen - Good morning
Wie geht’s - How are you? Informal
Wie geht’s es dir ?
Wie geht’s es ihnen? Formal

Response
mir geht’s gut - I am doing good/well
Es geht - Im good (so-so/hanging there )
Mir geht’s super - I am doing great
Mir geht’s es sehr gut - I am very good
Mir geht’s nicht so gut - I don’t feel so good
Mir geht’s schlecht- I feel very bad (awful)
Appropriate response when someone is not Gm doing good
Das es tut mir leid
Es tut mir leid

Other ways to respond
Wunderbar
Miserabel
Furchtbar

Guten Tag - Good afternoon
Guten Abend - Good evening
Gute Nachts - Good night
Bis bald - see you soon
Bis später- See you later
Auf Wiedersehen- Good bye (Till we see again)
Auf Wiederhören - Goodbye (on phone)
Tschüss - Bye

Formal/Informal Deutsch

In Deutschland, there is a certain way you address a stranger or a boss. This applies in some other languages like Yoruba, French, Chinese, Spanish etc

You wouldn’t address your boss the way you address your brother or someone who is obviously older/younger.

Example
Anna has an interview in the embassy. There she meets a stranger in the lobby.

Anna: Hallo! Guten Morgen! / Hello Good morning

Stranger: Morgen! / Morning

Anna: Ich bin Anna, wie heißen Sie? / I am Anna what’s your name

Stranger: Ich heißt Jakob / I am (I am called) Jacob

In this conversation SIE is the magic word that shows unfamiliarity or respect.

Note: Sie is also a pronoun for SHE and also for things that are female

Yeah. German is a gender-based language.

Tschüss!

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Subject/Personal Pronouns in Deutsch

Forming sentences

To form sentences in any choice language, you need to learn the following:
1. Nouns
2. Verbs
3. Conjunction
4. Preposition
5. Pronouns
6. Adverbs

Now let’s get to work.

How would you say this in German:
I CAN MAKE SANDWICHES AND FRIES

First, you need to know the subject pronoun (I), the verbs CAN and MAKE, Plural Noun SANDWICHES, conjunction (AND)

When you string them together, you get
Ich kann Sandwiches und Pommes machen.

Noteworthy:
Nouns must be capitalized. If there are two verbs in a sentence, the second verbs must be at the end of the sentence.

In the above sentence, we have two verbs KANN (Können) and Machen.

Another Example
I work as a waitress at KFC
Ich arbeite als Kellnerin bei KFC

So now, you know the importance of grammar in German.

Auf Wiedersehen!

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If I don’t get a comment, that means nobody is interested.

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Beautiful language but very rigid people. No joy. At least Bavarians know how to mix fun/celebration with rigidity.

Many forget that without old German language, there would be no Anglo-Saxon language, the root of modern English.

Frohe Weihnacten und viel Glueck!