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This week I have learned how to use the possessive pronouns in the nominative and accusative case. And again ... It is quite difficult to remember. I have searched in the internet and found that this link is quite useful.

German Possessive Pronouns
https://language-easy.org/german/grammar/pronouns/possessive/

I also practice how to used it with several exercise from many website also.

Link for an exercise: Nominative and accusative: articles and possessive pronouns https://german.tolearnfree.com/free-german-lessons/free-german-exercise-120086.php

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I have learned more new vocabulary about food items, dishes and shops in German. There is a lot of word in a coursebook, so I just wrote in a separated notebook and try to memorise them all. In addition, I also practice my pronunciation and learn some new words in food category from the video clip below.

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Learn German Vocabulary | 25 useful Food items in everyday life | Lebensmittel

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Moreover, I have learned how to pronounce Umlaute in German. These are the new letters that I have never seen before but their sound are not hard to pronounce for me. I have read more about it form the link below. There is a video clip in this like which is really good to practice pronunciation.

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Ask anyone who does not speak German about the language and they will all say how difficult and harsh it sounds. Those who cannot speak it are wary and do not know where to start to even learn it. But there are around 100 million German native speakers in the world, so it is a necessary language if you are planning to interact with them.

Granted, the German language is quite complicated, but with practice and time anyone can master it. These complications and linguistic quirks make it a great language for those who love learning new and challenging words.

One interesting characteristic that the German language has is its letters. More specifically, the three additional letters of its alphabet make it quite unique. These additional letters are called umlauts and this article will explain what they are and how to pronounce them.

What are umlauts?

Learning a new language is difficult, especially if it has sounds which your mouth might not have been used to pronouncing. When it is very difficult for two sounds to connect to one another, we try to make them easier and simplify them. That is how umlauts were born.

Umlauts are assimilations or vowel harmonies. This means that one of the sounds was changed to make another similar sound that is easier to say. For example, if we say two vowels with one in the front part of the mouth and the other in far back of the mouth, it will require us to put more effort than if we pronounced them closer together.

By trying to pronounce these vowels together, the Germanic language got umlauts. The umlauts are more common when the word contains two vowels one after the other, with the second vowel being "i".

For example, saying the sound "ai", "oi", or "ui" is more difficult because the first letter is pronounced by a sound in the front of the mouth, while the "i" is pronounced in the back. So to make things easier for themselves, people initially started pronouncing the "i" as "j". So those sounds became "aj", "oj", and "uj".

Further down in time, the sounds evolved and are now the three German umlauts, which are written as "ae", "oe", and "ue".

What are the types of German umlauts?

There are three German umlauts in addition to the 26 letters of the alphabet. These umlauts are:

Umlauts are characterized by the two dots on top of the letter and they are very useful for learning German. They are crucial in being grammatically correct and pronouncing the words right.

To make matters more complicated, each of these umlauts has two variations. The variations are for "short" umlauts and "long umlauts" This is to distinguish between different words and it makes a difference in pronunciation.

The difference between short and long umlauts is that the sounds you make while saying them will just differ in length. Instead of holding a sound too long, you will say it quicker for short umlauts, while for long umlauts, you will have to hold the sound for a bit.

How to pronounce German umlauts?

German umlauts are highly useful in the language, but for non-native speakers they are difficult sounds to master. That is because there are no equivalent sounds in English that sound the same as the umlauts in German. So to be able to learn how to pronounce German umlauts, we have to try and approximate the sounds using existing words.

Pronouncing the umlaut Ä

Since there are two variations of this type of umlaut, we have to go through both of them and give examples. The short Ä is pronounced like the "e" in the word "bet" in English. It is like saying "eh".

The long Ä on the other hand is simply taking the short one and keeping the sound, so making it longer. It is like saying the "ay" in "say".

For a better idea on the pronunciation, we've compiled a list of examples of words that sound like Ä and some German words that use this umlaut.

It's difficult to differentiate between the short and long Ä, but a general rule of thumb could be that the word has a long Ä if there is a letter "h" after the umlaut. If you can notice that the word has a long Ä, then you should pronounce the silent "h" even if it is not written there.

Most beginners will have a difficult time pronouncing this umlaut and English speakers will have the urge to glide the umlaut into a different vowel. That is when you are trying to say the short Ä for example as an ê and you say "êy". You must try not to do this because the German vowels and umlauts do not mix with each other in pronunciation as is the case in English.

For a better idea on how to pronounce the Ä umlaut, below you will find an audio recording from German learning sites where examples of the use of Ä are provided.

Pronouncing the umlaut Ö

The umlaut Ö is one of the more difficult umlauts for non-native Germans to pronounce it. For English speakers specifically, this is difficult because English does not have a sound which is similar to it. So if you are learning German, you must be careful on how you pronounce this umlaut and practice it a lot.

The way you can go about pronouncing the Ö umlaut is by pursing your lips halfway in a circle as if you were saying O and then trying to say the short Ä.

We've compiled examples that you can use as a basis to be able to say the umlaut Ö.

* The "r" in the pronunciation is silent

For a better idea on how to pronounce the Ö umlaut, below you will find an audio recording from German learning sites where examples of the use of Ö are provided.

Pronouncing the umlaut Ü

The last umlaut in German language is the Ü. Similar to the Ö, there is no sound in the English language which is the equivalent of this umlaut.

The way to pronounce the Ü umlaut is by making the sound "ee" and pursing your lips as if you were whistling, almost completely shut. Your tongue must stay in the same place as when you say the sound "ee" and you should only change the shape of your mouth as if were saying "oo".

The easiest way to do this is to start by saying the sound "ee" and then slowly changing the shape of your mouth from its wider position to a closed whistling shape.

We've compiled examples that you can use as a basis to be able to say the umlaut Ü. Unfortunately, this umlaut is almost impossible to find in any English word so there any no examples of it in the language.

For a better idea on how to pronounce the Ü umlaut, below you will find an audio recording from German learning sites where examples of the use of Ü are provided.

Summary of German umlaut pronunciation

In summary, the three German umlauts are pronounced as follows:

Ä - make the sound "eh" or "ê" without gliding into the sound "ey";

Ö - make the sound "ê" and purse your lips into an O shape;

Ü - make the sound "ee" and then purse your lips as if you are whistling;

Reading how to pronounce something and seeing examples can give you a pretty good idea how to pronounce the umlauts. However, it is much better when you listen to it. The video below gives a short overview on how to pronounce the German umlauts.

What are German umlauts used for?

German umlauts have evolved in the language as part of the grammar. In order to be grammatically correct in using German, you must use umlauts too. Not using them will confuse those who are reading or listening to you speaking German.

As a general rule of thumb, umlauts are mostly used in the following situations:

Differentiate between singular and plural

Differentiate between present and past tenses

Singular and Plural

In any language, singular is one and plural is many. The German umlauts are used to make that distinction. For example the word "house" is singular and in German it is "Haus". In plural, the English version becomes "Houses", while in German it becomes "Häuser". Additional examples include:

Hand (hand) and Hände (hands)

Stock (stick) and Stöcke (sticks)

Kuss (kiss) and Küsse (kisses)

Stuhl (chair) and Stühle (chairs)

Present and Past Tense

Another way the umlauts are used is to distinguish between the present and the past tense. An example could be the verb "to lie". In English this is to lie in the present tense and lied in the past tense. In German this becomes "l ügen" in the present tense and "log" in the past tense. Other examples include

Haben (have) and Hätten (had)

Schlafen (sleep) and Schläft (slept)

How to type the German umlauts?

Each country has their own keyboards which have been customized to fit their own alphabet. So if you are not a native German speaker or do not live in Germany, your keyboard might not have the umlauts you need to type correctly.

One solution to this is to simply get a German keyboard. It will have the umlauts on the right hand side, as shown in the picture below.

Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmb166/8452387460/

The other one is to write the umlauts using the keyboard combination keys. These combinations work on most keyboards and will give you the umlaut you need.

Finally, if it is too much trouble to do either one of these, you can modify the way you write umlauts. We said in the beginning that the umlaut is the letter followed by "e". So you could write the umlauts like this:

German speakers will know that when you write a letter followed by "e", it means you are writing the umlaut. So whichever way you choose, you will be using the German umlauts correctly.

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German Umlauts: Ä Ö and Ü - [The 2020 German Language Guide]

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German Umlauts - ä, ö, ü Ask anyone who does not speak German about the language and they will all say how difficult and harsh it sounds. Those who cannot speak it are wary and do not know where to start to even learn it.

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This week I have learned about naming months and seasons in German. For the months, it is quite easy to remember because most of words are spelling similar to English.

Moreover, I have also studied about how to telling time and I use the YouTube link below to practice my pronunciation and expression to tell the time.

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Learn German Vocabulary - Months in German (Monate)

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Furthermore, I have learned how to use inversion in German sentences. I understand how to create the sentence but not sure how to use in real life. So I have read more about it in the internet.

Sentence Structure in German https://www.germanveryeasy.com/sentence-structure#Subject-inversion

This website is not only explained about the inversion, but it states all sentence structures. This makes me really understand the overview of German sentence structures and how to create a sentence more clearly.

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On this site we will talk about the German grammar. You will learn all important things you need to know from A1 till C1. This grammar overview will help you to answer all questions you have.

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On this site we will talk about the German grammar. You will learn all important things you need to know from A1 till C1. This grammar overview will help you to answer all questions you have.

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This is the last week of German course. I have learned about using personal pronoun in the accusative case. The link below is my further reading about this topics. This website summarises the forms of pronouns in the table, and it also has an exercise which is really helpful to understand how to use them.

German Personal Pronouns – Summary
https://language-easy.org/german/grammar/pronouns/personal/

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Furthermore I have learned the words about family. I use the link below to practice my pronunciation.

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Learn German | Family | Meine Familie | German for beginners | A1 - Lesson 25

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In this week, I studied about the modal verbs müssen, können and wollen. I have a problem how to to change the verb ending when using different pronouns. Then I found this website ...

Modal Verbs in German – Summary
https://language-easy.org/german/grammar/verbs/modal-verbs/

It explains how to change verb form and how to use them. This really helps me!

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In addition, I have learned about separable verbs. It is really new for me, so I read more about it from the link below.

https://language-easy.org/german/grammar/verbs/separable-verbs/

This is link helping me understand the overview of this topic and letting me know how to use it.

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Furthermore, I have studied about how to order food and drinks in a restaurant in the lab session. Speaking with pair in this class helps me a lot, but I think it is not enough. I will practice more with my friend that has learned German before again.

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In the fifth week, I have studied about how to give directions by using the formal imperative.

In this session, I have a problem with the pronunciation, especially the word "rechts" and "geradeaus". So I use an online dictionary how to pronounce them and also use the link below to practice my pronunciation in the sentence.

Learn German - Directions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR5VsqYQZ9A

Furthermore, I also read more about the imperative to make more understand this sentence form. I have learned what it is, when to use, and how to build the imperative sentence from this video clip.

Learn German -Imperative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0aJdvJfG-0

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In addition, I have learned about the negative article "kein". I cannot remember and quite confuse how to use it with different genders of noun. So I summarise it in the note book and try to group the similar things together to help me memorise it.

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Moreover, I still have a problem with the pronouns and verb ending. I try to find the best way to understand it and then I found this link ...

https://www.germanwithantrim.com/german-present-tense-master-class/

It talks about every about verb ending both for regular and irregular verb. This is really helpful!

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It's the third week for me to study German. I have studied about the basics of gender of German nouns. I'm really confuse with this because I don't know how can I identify the gender. Do I need to remember them? Then I found the website that described how can we guess the word gender. This website is very useful and make me more understand in this topic.

How to Tell If a German Word Is Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter

https://www.thoughtco.com/masculine-feminine-or-nueter-in-german-4068442

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This week is the forth week. I have learned about naming key building in a city and also profession. There is a lot of words in this session in the coursebook, so I just jotted them down in my notebook and try to grouping by gender of that words. This helps me remember all of them easily.

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It is still tough for me to learn German for this second week. It still quite hard for me to get used to with learning German.

So this week, I have tried to learn about basic sentence structures, where is the position of verb.

Moreover I have learned how to ask people about where are they from or where are they live. This lesson I have learned a lot of words about countries and languages. I think some of these German words are written and pronounce like English. So it makes more easily to remember the words.

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This is the first week that I have learned German. I have no experience on German before, so it is quite tough for me to learn. This is because the way of pronunciation is very different from Asian language.

I learned how to say hello and introduce myself in German in both formal and informal level. I found that it quite difficult for me to pronounce German words. So I tried to practice with my friend that had learned German before in a high school. That's really help me to speak better.

Furthermore, I have learned about pronoun and the basics of subject-verb-agreement. I read this link below to see an overview of this topic.

http://joycep.myweb.port.ac.uk/verbs/

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1. The present tense and the infinitive Verbs with a stem ending in

The present tense of German verbs is formed from the infinitive of the verb. This is the part of speech which equates to the English "to do", "to speak" etc. In German, the infinitive almost always ends in . To construct the individual forms, we remove the "-en" from the infinitive and add personal endings which link the verb with the subject in terms of person (i.e. first, second or third person) or number (i.e. singular or plural). We say that the verb 'agrees' with the subject, in that German verbs show the person and the number of the subject of the verb by means of their endings.

The verb endings for the present tense of the regular or 'weak' German verb machen (to do) are as follows:

Unlike in English, there is only form of the present tense in German. There is no continuous present - "ich mache" is used to translate both "I do" and "I am doing".

German pronouns

When learning the German pronouns, note that:

The German pronoun "ich" does not start with a capital letter, unlike its English equivalent "I".

The third person pronouns "er", "sie" and "es" can refer to persons. However they also substitute for all masculine, feminine and neuter nouns respectively, regardless of whether they are persons or things.

Note that the pronoun "sie" can either mean "she" or "they" depending on context. And when it begins with a capital letter "Sie" is the formal form of "you"! Be very careful how you use this pronoun.

Sie or du?

The familiar or informal form "du" is used when talking to relatives, close friends and children.

It does not start with a capital letter.

The plural of "du" is "ihr".

The formal form "Sie" is used when you need to be more polite.

It is the usual form of address when talking to an adult whom you don't know well or at all.

A child would always say "Sie" to an adult outside his or her own family.

"Sie" always starts with a capital letter.

The plural form of "Sie" is also "Sie".

-ieren

German verbs whose infinitive stem ends in -ieren have the same endings as regular German verbs.

German Present Tense: Verbs with stems in -z, -ss, -ß, -s and -x

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1. The present tense and the infinitive Verbs with a stem ending in The present tense of German verbs is formed from the infinitive of the verb. This is the part of speech which equates to the English "to do", "to speak" etc. In German, the infinitive almost always ends in .

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This week is the first week for online learning and self-study. I found that it is quite difficult for me to understand the lessons by only reading. Therefore, I try to find the German course that was taught by in Thai, which is my first language. I found it! (It shows in the link below.)

This course makes me more clear understand in some points of German grammar and also suggest many tricks to help me memorise.

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In addition, I have studied about the basics of singular and plural forms. I think this one is the one of difficult parts of German because there are several patterns to convert singular to plural. So every time that I want to use the nouns, I always check it with the online German dictionary before using it. I am not only using it to check singular/plural forms, but I also use it to check the gender of the word.

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Because this is the last week, I plan to review everything that I have learned in this course. I will keep doing exercises and practice speaking more and more. I found a lot of free exercises in the internet. I will do them as much as I can.

Moreover, I bought a German book, Unlocking GERMAN with Paul Noble, last two months. I have not read it much because I have been busy with my PhD. Then I will try to complete it as soon as I can.

Finally, I have a friend which is a native German. I will try to speak with her in German (if she and me free at the same time) as much as I can. This may help me better in speaking in the future :)

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การเรียนภาษาเยอรมันเป็นเรื่องที่เข้าถึงยาก และมีค่าใช้จ่ายสูง ดังนั้นคอร์สนี้จึงเป็นการแก้ปัญหาให้กับผู้สนใจ โดยมีการวางรูปแบบการเรียนให้สอดคล้องกับการทดสอบวัดระดับ ตั้งแต่ขั้นพื้นฐานในระดับ A1 โดยเมื่อเรียนจนจบเนื้อหาทั้งหมดแล้ว ผู้เรียนจะมีความรู้ในระดับเทียบเท่ากับระดับ B2 สามารถนําไปใช้ในการเตรียมตัวสอบ หรือใช้งานในระดับที่ดีได้ ผู้สนใจภาษาเยอรมัน ผู้ที่ต้องการสอบวัดะดับตั้งแต่ A1 - B2 นักศึกษาที่จะเตรียมตัวสอบ TestDaf หรือเรียนในโรงเรียน มหาวิทยาลัย ความเข้าใจที่ดีในภาษาเยอรมัน สามารถใช้ในชีวิตประจําวัน การทํางาน การเรียน และการสอบวัดระดับต่างๆ ตั้งแต่ระดับ A1 - B2 , TestDaf , PAT7.2 e-Book เอกสารประกอบการเรียน จำนวน 2 เล่ม e-Book แบบฝึกหัด จำนวน 1 เล่ม

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No more spending money for costly German language classes, no more travelling to an institute. Learn German from the comfort of your home and that too free of cost. Listen to the videos as many times you want. Learn German from an experienced team of teachers for all levels: Beginners (Level A1 a…

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I have ordered a book form Amazon which is 'Unlocking GERMAN with Paul Noble'. This book is one of the good way to learn.

Although this book is really nice,  it does not help me improve my pronunciation and speaking skills. So, I try to learn some new vocabulary about colour and hobbies from video clips from YouTube.

Colour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTkmblnxN7A
Hobbies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVb_VwVYehs

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I have found a YouTube Channel which is really good for beginner learner like me. There is a lot of lessons that I can study by myself. So I plan to use this channel as the reference when I do not understand the lessons in clss.

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No more spending money for costly German language classes, no more travelling to an institute. Learn German from the comfort of your home and that too free of cost. Listen to the videos as many times you want. Learn German from an experienced team of teachers for all levels: Beginners (Level A1 a…

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Moreover, I have tried to remember Das Alphabets and how to pronounce them from YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_6QzHc2PPA

From this video, I have learned not only the German alphabets, but also learned some vocabulary from that. I have made some note and try to remember it everyday.

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40 Minuten- Das gesamte ABC - Schnell Deutsch lernen

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Furthermore, I have learned about the ordinal numbers. I found this figure in Google Search. It is really useful!