Talk:German/Level I/Schule

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Whew... I just thought I'd write some dialogue in real everyday language and explain quickly afterwards, just to avoid the typical constructed textbook phrases. It turns out that basic everyday language is way more complicated than I thought ;-) The chapter is quite a bit longer than I planned... I also added some trivia, because I feel if you can understand things or learn weird facts along the way this helps a lot to memorize stuff.

What do you think? Should we strip the phrases down, so they really become very basic stuff? I wouldn't like to, because this is just the way people ARE talking... Maybe it is not necessary to really explain everything, but have the learner accept some quirks and maybe understand them later? Or separating the important stuff from the trivia?

I think grouping the explanations by topic would help clear things up a lot, e.g. "reflexive verbs", "contracted pronouns" "math" and maybe even "filler phrases". Maybe I'll get around to do this one of these days...

Thamane 21:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

For this lesson for school, we are just going to get to the tip of the iceberg, we will just be doing very common thing of school, we will revise to a very complete, very detailed, very long, and really different school lesson. and don't enter reflexive verbs, but reflexives are okay and don't put all of the contracted pronouns, however math sound good in this section. And welcome to the German wikibook, BTW I think we should complete lesson 5 before heading foreward. --German Men92 22:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Also I'm going to short and serptate out "Und Satz fur Satz..." some thing are too diffcult, like the past tense, we aren't introducing till' Level 2. --German Men92 22:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I have a question concerning this lesson. Was is your purpose that the English translations are so bad?? There are so many grammatically mistakes. e.g. "have you the tasks done" --SteffiB 20:09, 13 November 2007 (UTC)