I am in 9th grade (freshman) and I have to take 3 years of language in High School. I really want to take German and I was wondering if it’s a fun and not too difficult language to learn. By the way I’m not a slacker and I dont mind a challenge, I just dont want it to be impossible. Thanks.
go for it 
don’t settle for another language if german is what you want to take!!
this is my 7th year of german (i’m a senior) and it’s the best class i’ve ever taken 
the language is not as hard as most people think - it’s actually easier than french and spanish.
english and german are germanic languages, whereas french and spanish are romance languages (not because they sound pretty, but because they come from Rome - latin)
it is much easier for a native english speaker to learn german than to learn spanish/french/italian etc.
and don’t let the long words scare you… all long words in german are just shorter words put together.
for example, "anrufbeantworter" is "answering machine"
anruf = call
beantworter = answerer
in english, we separate "answering machine", but it german, they just combine the two words… kind of like us writing "answeringmachine"
i love german and i hope i helped!!! definitely try it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u_b-tNCboE that’s a video from my favorite german band… maybe you will like it
I’m in high school, and im trying to decide if I should take German 1 next year along with French 3. I really like the German language, but it seems really different from French. Im also afraid if I take two languages , I’ll get confused. How hard is German to learn, and would it be a bad idea to take it next year?
I think it won’t be that difficult since German and English are both Germanic languages. You will find along your learning process a lot of similarities between these two languages.
My native language is Spanish and have never in my life learn anything about Portuguese and Italian, but since these languages are all Latin, is very easy to understand a Portuguese or an Italian person and viceversa.
Greetings.
I’m going to be doing a lot of traveling in north western europe when I grow up, maybe even live there since that’s where my family is from. So, I want to learn a lot of germanic languages. I’m going to take german 1 this year, & if I learn german I’ll move onto dutch, since I heard that’s the closest to german. Thanks.
Since English, Swedish, and German are all Germanic languages you shouldn’t have too much difficulty[mostly with vocab] but remember learning a new language is never completely easy so there will be some challenges.
I want to learn German but I have to pay something dollars per month and i don’t want to pay,and when I go to websites,they don’t explain very well how to pronounce things.Help?
you can try these sites, they are very helpful:
http://german.about.com/ —>very recommended!
http://www.sharedtalk.com/
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=iw&langpair=de%7Cen&sl=en&tl=fr# –>translator
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/ –>translator
http://www.livemocha.com/ –> a lot of exercises
http://www.ielanguages.com/German1.html –>very recommended!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/–>very recommended!
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html –>recommended for learning how to pronounce.
if you’ll use the sites I’ve recommended you’ll be able to speak german in no time. guaranteed.
plus, you can always ask me if you have any questions
I’m a huge fan of Tokio Hotel and not all their interviews can be translated and I want to learn German to understand them. Any places?
if you just want to translate http://translate.google.com/
the best place to learn is http://www.babelnation.com/german/
I’m learning German and I’m also a Tokio Hotel fan. ^_^
I’m trying to learn German on my own because my high school doesn’t offer it and i was wondering what the best software is to learn German.
Hi Nicholas,
what I can do is to recommend you a FREE tutor ."Deutsche Welle": the lessons are easy to comprehend, have exercises and also audios. So you can save them on ur cell phone or mp3/4 and always listen and you can become accustomed to the pronounciation of the words! (audios). The files of the lessons are pdf format!
°°http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2547,00.htm… [english]
There are 2 moduls: Deutsch - warum nicht? and Deutsch - wieso nicht?!
On the left side of the site you will see : German courses, so there it is!
Good luck with it
Grüße
I want to learn German but I don’t know where to start.
I already know a little.
Can anyone help?
Hi Marcos,
Many ppl recommend livemocha, but I think it’s too weak (in my opinion). So, I can recommend you Deutsche Welle.
"Deutsche Welle": the lessons are easy to comprehend, have exercises and also audios. So you can save them on ur cell phone or mp3/4 and always listen and you can become accustomed to the pronounciation of the words! (audios). The files of the lessons are pdf format! FREE tutor.
°°http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2547,00.htm… [english]
There are 2 moduls: Deutsch - warum nicht? and Deutsch - wieso nicht?!
On the left side of the site you will see : German courses, so there it is!
Good luck with it
Grüße
I am really wanting to learn to speak German. What computer software would be the best to use? Could you also please put the price? I was wondering if there are programs that are even better than RosettaStone
use http://www.sharedtalk.com its really good
you can talk with people over the world and they will train you into speaking any language. really good communication skills.
i found it and its really a good one! try it!
I really want to learn German, whats the easiest/quickest program or way to learn it?
marilyn is right.. but u can try with some online courses if u want to save money! http://fsi-language-courses.com/German.aspx
that’s a full course to learn german.. if u are up to try it! 
but u can also find german music and get the lyrics.. go to youtube maybe u’ll find some german programs, interviews, tv, comercial and if u got luck people who’s teaching german..;) so u can learn from it.
i will also leave u a link.. where u can type any word in german and listen the pronunciation: http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html
Good luck!!
I want to learn German and I hear Rosetta Stone is very useful. Though I want to know how much I’m getting into.
Depends how often you use Rosetta Stone, I learned Spanish in 4 months and French in 6 months using Rosetta Stone. Good luck in learning German, Wish you all the best!