It’s day 3 of my 2022 DeutschAkademie adventure and it’s a tough topic today: Wechselpräpositionen. It was hard enough to learn the articles in “Dativ” and “Akkusativ”, and to remember that with these prepositions (an, neben, zwischen…) the dativ was required (we did this in A1.2). But now we have to use them with akkusativ too? But in a different situation and with different verbs? German is really a challenge 🙂 Between the thousand rules and the exceptions and the very illogical things that you have to learn by heart…. the good thing is that actually having class every day helps a lot. Even if you wanted to forget something you wouldn’t be able to.

One thing I really like about this course is the homework: weird right? we try to escape them all our school years and now I enjoy them. They actually only take 10-15 minutes. But they are extremely good to see if you’ve understood the new rules and to memorize the new words without having to learn them by heart from a list. Plus we usually get a very small written assignment which we then give to the teacher who brings it back the next day. I’m usually very confident that what I wrote is correct, but when the corrected version comes back.. Let’s just say I’m here to learn ?

Rainy day today, I got to class just in time to correct the homework: somehow I took the wrong U-Bahn and realized only 2 stops later. The biggest topic that we covered today was the use of the Perfekt and Partizip II. We had already done it in the end of A1.2 but it was great to revise it. We got to add a few details and rules that we overlooked the first time.

Our teacher Christine is great, she only speaks German in class, and whenever we ask the meaning of a word, she uses simpler words. She’s very patient to find more ways to say something until everyone understands. Plus, the classes are extremely interesting: there is always a component of speaking, listening, grammar, and vocabulary, and she makes it fun by making us do games or small dialogues in pair.

About what, on what, at what. A rough translation for an apparently easy topic but then we realized that is way trickier than it looks like. The differences are quite subtle and in English especially there is no specific translation for all of them.

After the first hour of going through grammar we started doing some exercises and did some translations as well. After that, we broke out into small rooms and asked each other some phrases using these 3 words.

Around half an hour before ending our class we also studied how to say “I am looking forward to see you“, „I am looking forward to go there“, „I have joy doing something” etc.

The lesson was quite intense, especially because we all had lots of questions about this new topic but finally, we managed to get the best out of it.

This afternoon I am going to go to the canal to have a walk with a friend of mine. Today it is such a spectacular day, yet glacial, but I want to catch some sun lights.

Have a nice evening and see you tomorrow for our last class!

Today’s class was based on vocabulary, new words that we have learned and prepositions.

Even after few weeks of learning prepositions it’s still quite easy to get it wrong so that is the reason why we are still training on that and doing some exercises about how to best use prepositions. Indeed, one of the main games that we played was to locate objects into the rooms using all the prepositions that we have been learning so far, and also another game that was really funny was “Ich kann etwas sehen, was du nicht sehen kannst” that means „I can see something that you can’t see“, so everybody had to guess what was the object that the person was letting us trying to guess – the time really flew by!

About 10 minutes before the class ended, we decided to go for a little walk all together to see the Christmas markets, which here in Vienna are just spectacular! I am so excited about this season!

See you tomorrow!
Ruben

Whichever language you have studied in your life or whichever language you speak, you had to go through irregular verbs. And we all know the struggle.

Especially, finding a logic behind them, unfortunately, it is pretty much impossible. It is all about studying them.

That was today’s topic: We went through a list of irregular verbs and we started learning how they are declined, their pronunciation, how to use them and few exercises. I have to admit that a part from the initial struggle, after few exercises we all understood the way on how to use them. If you want to talk about the series you saw, the food you ate yesterday, or how you came across a new shop, you will need to use the German irregular verbs.

Irregular verbs are also called ’strong‘ verbs. They are those verbs that will have different conjugations than regular verbs. They also have some unexpected changes, which can really set you off. Unfortunately, there is no standard way to know exactly when and how these verbs will change. So we just have to study them is learn them by heart.

Our teacher then, gave us few exercises to do for the very next day. So I am going to go back home today to study and practise.

Right now, I am in Schönbrunn Palace a beautiful and huge park where there is an imperial palace that used to be the summer house of the Habsburg rulers. Just as I get home I will do tomorrow’s homework and hopefully, I will be able to remember all the entire list!

Liebe Grüße,

Ruben 🙂

Hallo ihr, wir sind jetzt in der letzten Woche von unserem online Deutschkurs. Ich habe nicht gewusst, dass man in vier Wochen ein ganzes Buch durchstudieren kann. Aber das ist möglich, Morgen fangen wir die letzte Lektion an. Ich habe viel gelernt. Ich denke dass mir der online Kurs geholfen hat, der Lehrer hat es gut geschafft unsere Aufmerksamkeit zu bekommen. Das interessante war, der Lehrer kannte die Schüler wirklich gut. Warum sage ich das? Er konnte den Gesichtsausdruck von jeden  Schüler interpretieren und wenn er durch unseren Gesichtsausdruck bemerkt, dass ein Schüler ein Thema nicht gut verstanden hat, fragte er nach und räumte die Zweifel aus. Ein anderer Punkt vom Onlinekurs, den ich toll finde, ist  wir haben Montag bis Donnerstag Nachmittags zusätzlich einen Lehrer bei Zoom. Er steht für die Beantwortung unserer Fragen zur Verfügung. Heute zum Beispiel war ich fast zwei Stunden online und ich konnte mehrere Fragen stellen, und auch von den Fragen der anderen Schüler lernen. Während der Pause, schaltet jeder den Ton und das Video aus, und wir können den Komfort unseres Hauses genießen. Ein Online-Kurs hat viele Vorteile.

Hallo zusammen,

wegen dem Coronavirus mache ich einen Online Kurs bei DeutschAkadamie. Dass ist das erstmal dass ich einen Online Kurs mache. Am Anfang war ich nicht sicher ob ein Online Kurs eine gute Entscheidung ist. Aber ich möchte gerne diese Erfahrung machen, weil wir nicht gewusst haben wir lange die Einschränkungen dauern und ich brauche mein B2 Zertifikat. Ich bin vom Online-Kurs positiv überrascht. Er sehr effektiv ist und der Lehrer der Deutschakademie ist sehr Professional und er kann sehr gut erklären.  Mit dem Onlinekurs verbringe ich meine Zeit nicht im Verkehr und ich kann ihn bequem von zu  Haus aus ‚besuchen‘. Wenn wir einen Interval haben, gehen alle auf offline Status und ich habe dann 15 Minuten Pause, die ich zu Haus genießen kann. Das ist echt super!Ich habe mich entschieden, dass ich den zweiten Teil vom Onlinekurs auch machen werde. Auf dem Foto können Sie sehen, wie ich mich gerade per Zoom einwähle um den heutigen Deutschkurs zu machen…

Heute war der erste Tag vom Deutschkurs B2.1. Das ist meine erste Erfahrungen mit DeutschAkadamie und auch mit einem Online Kurs. Alles hat sehr gut geklappt. Wir machen den Kurs über Zoom. Der Lehrer und die meisten Teilnehmern wohnen in Hamburg. Die Teilnehmern kommen aus verschiedenen Ländern, zum Beispiel Portugal, USA, Kroatien, Kolumbien und Indien. Wir sind eine Internationale Gruppe, die ich sehr interessant finde. Wir haben über das Thema Heimat gesprochen. Jeder hat gesagt, was er unter Heimat versteht . Das war interessant zu hören wie diese Worte gute Erinnerung hervorbringen.

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سلام

     قبل از شروع در مورد کلاسهای ترم بعد بهتون بگم که ترم فشرده به صورت 3 هفته هست 5 روز در هفته ؛ اگر تصمیم دارین که ثبت نام کنید می تونید از الان اقدام کنید و اگر هم تصمیم دارین بعد از تعطیلات شروع کنید باید بگم که کلاسها از 13 ژانویه شروع می شه .

   اگر که یک کم بلدین می تونید تو این مدت کمی بیشتر تمرین کنید که برین  و امتحان تعیین سطح رو بدین و ببینید تو چه سطحی هستین و اگر هم که مثل روزای اول من شما هم هیچی بلد نیستین نیاز به تعیین سطح نیست و باید از A1 -1 شروع کنید.

امروز می خوام اسلایدهای رنگ  Farbe رو بزارم که بدونید هر رنگی تو المانی چی می شه بد نیست وقتی بیرون می رین با خودتون تمرین کنید تا تو ذهنتون بمونه .

بعد از خواندن می تونید بگین که چراغ راهنمایی و رانندگی Ampel  از چه رنگهایی تشکیل شده؟                             Rot,Grun,Gelb

برای رنگهای پررنگ و کمرنگ هم از کلمه dunkel,Hell  استفاده می کنند .

سلام

امروز زود رسیدم که گفتم یک عکس از کلاسمون برامون بگیرم . خیلی محیط گرمی داره و با کلاسهای تو ایران خیلی فرق داره ، و این که سبک تدریس هم اینجا متفاوت هست . من خودم کلاسهای زیادی ایران رفتم ولی سبک اموزش با اینجا خیلی متفاوت هست.

حالا که اعداد رو یاد گرفتین خوبه که ساعت رو هم با هم تمرین کنیم . اول اینکه ساعت چنده به المانی می شه : wie spat ist es?

به ساعت مچی یا دیواری Uhr می گن و برای اعلام ساعت هم از اون استفاده می کنن.

مثلا ساعت 10 می شه 10 uhr  ؛ برای دقایق یک ربع و چهل و پنج دقیقه واژه viertel رو استفاده می کنن.

مثلا 10:15 دقیقه می شه :veirtel nach 10   یعنی یک ربع بعد از 10 ؛       10:45 دقیقه می شه : viertel vor 11  یعنی یک ربع به 11

برای 30 دقیقه هم واژه halb  رو به کار می برن که مثلا 10:30  دقیقه می شه halb11 (halb از 1 تا 12 گفته می شود) .

برای … دقیقه مونده  یا .. دقیقه بعد از از واژه های …..nach,… vor استفاده می شود.