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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cMRhmBfAQY&list=PLTYrckzM0AplTEIFp5akJB4mYeIIFLWMy&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezrFZ8zBzTE&list=PLTYrckzM0AplTEIFp5akJB4mYeIIFLWMy&index=6

25 GERMAN HOMONYMS
12 GERMAN DIALECTS
HOW TO DO A GERMAN ACCENT

Trixi's DontTrustTheRabbit Youtube channel is a fun way of learning general knowledge of German. Nothing much on grammars or technical learning, but more informative about things that are not taught in text books, which I feel important as well to know as it helps me to appreciate and understand German better.

The first video (25 German Homonyms) shows a series of Trixi explaining German words that are spelt and sounds the same but brings totally different meanings. I never noticed this before but from this video, I could now at least be more aware if a single word of German could have more than one meaning.

The second video (12 German Dialects) shows Trixi who lives in a city close to Hamburg and grew up in a city close to Hanover, trying to mimic 12 different German dialects ie swabien, berlin, ruhr area, saxon, alemannic, cologne, hessian, hamburg, etc. I tried to point out the differences but I couldn't really hear it out, but despite that, just learning the fact the German language has different dialects makes me wonder, put aside my accent, what dialect that I am being taught to speak? Just another thing to appreciate while learning German.

The third video (How To Do a German Accent) shows Trixi explaining how and why Germans speaks English in the German accent, or more precisely, how and why German accents sounds that way while pronouncing English words. It's more into appreciating the differences in the two languages where based from her personal research, its just because German language normally pronounces words in a "staccato" fashion with clear and sharp consonants while English language pronounces words a bit more "fluidly" with damped consonants, and that's how and why German accent exist while speaking English. This helps me understand how to at least try to guess to pronouns German words in the future.

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http://www.deutschseite.de/grammatik/plusquamperfekt/plusquamperfekt.html

VERGANGENHEIT - PLUSQUAMPERFEKT

This series of Tom's Deutsche Lesson is very formative and guides me to things I need to learn in the right order.

In this session, past - past perfect was learned. Basically there are 3 different ways to say things about the past in German, and this form of past tense is the third way and always used when speaking of an event in the past that happened before another event in the past.

It starts with a row of clear conjunctions which are clear indicators of this case which are "nachdem", "als" and "bevor".

The word structure then follows similarly as in past - present perfect but a bit altered which is Auxiliary verb in past tense + Past participle. The auxiliary verb has the two different types which are "haben" and "sein" as well but this time it is conjugated in to the past tense.

The same rules applied on how English uses "had won", "had departed", "had been learning".

Exercises are attached approaching the end for some practice.

My next progress is to watch some German learning videos a German friend of mine suggested.

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VERGANGENHEIT - DAS PRAETERITUM (IMPERFEKT)

This series of Tom's Deutsche Lesson is very formative and guides me to things I need to learn in the right order.

In this session, past - simple past was learned. Basically there are 3 different ways to say things of the past in German, and this form of past tense is the second way and most commonly used in written German (hardly in spoken).

The principle used are closely related to the same way English uses simple past tense, where the ending of the verb changes by adding the letter "ed" for weak verbs. So in German, same rule applies however it is different letters to be added at the end of the verb, and it varies accordingly with the strength of the verb, and also according to the person (ich, du, es, sie, etc) of the verbs.

Tables of list of different verbs in their respective strength and person (ich, du, es, sie, etc) are also included in this page a few exercises are also attached approaching the end for some practice.

My next progress is to study the third form of past tense.

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VERGANGENHEIT - DAS PERFEKT

This series of Tom's Deutsche Lesson is very formative and guides me to things I need to learn in the right order.

In this session, past - present perfect was learned. Basically there are 3 different ways to tell things of the past in German, and this form of past tense is said the first way and commonly used by Germans.

It uses the word structure of Auxiliary verb in present tense + Past participle. There are two (2) auxiliary verbs available which are "haben" and "sein" and these auxiliary verbs are conjugated and used according to the nature of the verb in the sentence. The past participle then are basically a few changes made to the verb to represent it as something done in the past, where the changes depends on the "strength" of the verb as German verbs always does.

Tables of list of different verbs in their respective "strength" are also included in this page a few exercises are also attached approaching the end for some practice.

My next progress is to study the second form of past tense.

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http://www.german-course-vienna.com/en/excercises_b1,20875.html

EXERCISES B1 INTERMEDIUM

This was another Action Plans made according to the weak points I had highlighted from the Essential Homework#1 which was about missing words.

This site provides a series B1 level exercises by filling in the blanks, where actually at least a quarter of half of it is still doable, but required frequent references.

The exercises includes personal pronoun in dative or accusative, articles or possessive pronouns in dative or accusative, combining the word "in" or "an" with a dative or accusative article, prepositions, and adjective endings on according to cases and gender.

It was hard in general, tiring, but a good drill to have back-to-back exercises in the same category to get familiarized, and straight after that a similar case but still different, so that I could compare and spot the differences in these similar cases that are confused to be the same.

My next progress in to continue my next progress plan from ISR#2

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http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanf01abcex1.htm

http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang02.htm

http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang03.htm

GERMAN ALPHABET
PERSONAL PRONOUN
NOUNS AND GENDER

These were Action Plans made according to the weak points I had highlighted from the Essential Homework#1 which was about spelling, and sentence structure.

This site provided a series of lessons to be learnt to improve the very basics of German progressively. Apparently I had to start back from the very basics as most mistakes made are rooted back to the fundamentals of the language.

Here, I recapped again on how the alphabets in German sounds like. A few audio exercises were given for me to practice my hearing and spelling of the German language.

The progression to that was personal pronouns which I have already studied in the previous ISR but always everything had to be recapped according to the highlights I received from my Essential Homework#1. A table of each personal pronouns were given with example of sentences both in the form of singular and plural.

The next lesson was about nouns and their genders. The very basic to differentiate an nouns was highlighted were it starts with a capital letter, and the usual drill to learn gender of nouns are to learn it over and over again until I could know by heart what gender does the nouns belong to. A few examples were provided in tables for both singular nominative and plural nominative cases.

My next progress to continue my plan action from ISR#2 is to first do the other Action Plans from my Essential Homework#1

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http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/pronouns/personal-possessive-pronouns/

http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/pronouns/reflexive-pronouns/

http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/pronouns/relative-pronouns/

http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/pronouns/interrogative-pronouns/

PRONOMEN

This site supplied me with some good and precise comparison on how the English and German differs between each other.

Here, I was self studying on the pronounce available in German which could be broken into 4 types:
1. Personal/Possessive pronoun
2. Reflexive pronoun
3. Relative pronoun
4. Interrogative pronoun
Where basically, most of it have been learnt in the MLT105, but this was taken a step further by including the dative and genitive case. From point (1.), I learned that the accusative, dative and genitive pronounce has similar beginnings but different endings, however it stated that the genitive form is rarely used where I would like to bring it up to my tutor to ask why, as it confused me since the translation in the table makes perfect sense. From point (2.), I learnt the correct understanding on how to refer back an action towards oneself. Basically an object of a verb but in the case of accusative or dative, where that object of the verb referred is oneself, making it reflective.  From point (3.), I learnt that to refer an object/subject in relative, German still seems to differentiate whether it is a nominative of accusative case, alerting me that every word in German has to be paid attention to know the correct words to use knowing what case it is referring to. From point (4.), I learned that in question words, German again differentiates the case of the subject (where this is the same case in English), and so all I need to do is to remember the words.

Basically throughout this session, I learned that German pays great attention to details of the word structure by clearly stating what the subject of the conversation is, the object and to what are they referring to, making a sentence precise. I could conclude from this that it is important for me to quickly master these 3 different cases as I believe all German sentences will stick to this rule until the end of the course.

My next progress would be to learn the past tense of word structure.

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http://www.deutschseite.de/grammatik/infinitiv_mit_zu/infinitiv_mit_zu_01.pdf

INFINITIV MIT ZU

This series of Tom's Deutsche Lesson is very formative and guides me to things I need to learn in the right order.

In progression to what was learned in class, this subject that I self studied was about using the "Infinitiv mit zu" word structure. From learning this, most of the words constructed makes even more sense and readable as I would understand in English. I also noticed that it has a similar structure with the past tense word structure, where the word "zu" in separable verbs is placed between the prefix and the verb. Noticing this also enhances my understanding in using separable verbs and might be able to predict how to alter separable verbs in the future if more grammar is learnt. Some new words learnt from this self study was to use the preposition "ohne" (without) and "anstatt" (instead). An exercise for the current topic was also included for me to practice this "infinitive + to" section.

My next progress would be to learn more about pronouns.