I've started taking german classes.
Are there any tips for learning it? (besides the paying attention to the articles)

practice practice practice


also try and listen to some tapes or cds

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Watch German movies / television (they have excellent detective series)

The main thing is to learn the genders of everything. That's the best advice I can give you.

When you get into subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects, identifying the articles that correspond with each individual part of speech (such as Der, Den, and Dem) will help you understand and form those types of sentences more quickly. You can also switch around any of the objects and retain the same meaning if the articles do not change. Also, read alot of German novels.

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and read some very old english books ..

-I am viewing the dativ, akkusativ, etc; and they're a little complicated to get at first. I'll review them later.

Anything on sentence structuring?

I get one german channel. The news gal is hot.

Remember time, manner, place for sentence structuring. The verb is always in the second position.

Yes, german chicks are damn fine.

nominativ (wer? / who?)
genitiv (wessen? / whose?)
dativ (wem? / whom?)
akkusativ (wen? / whom?)

talking about this gal?

If you don't know any German I would recommend practicing your accent. Listen to German music/tv; there is nothing worse than speaking German with a yank accent.
The language will come in time, spend just as much time on how you speak.


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