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🎥 Speaking German:
🧾 Intro / Reflection
Finally passed Bronze 4! I’d been stuck here for about a month, and honestly, it could have gone faster if I had focused earlier on the German cases. I spent two solid weeks learning nominative, accusative, and dative, practicing sentences, articles, and conjugations until I got the basics down. I didn’t cover the advanced case changes yet, just enough for this rank.
Focusing on cases made me feel more confident in my German overall, especially sentence construction. When I first failed, it was mostly because I couldn’t demonstrate the cases properly, but after practice it went much smoother.
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📚 What I Learned This Rank
✅ Bronze 4
| Category | Covered |
|---|---|
| Shopping phrases | ✅ |
| Directions | ✅ |
| Plans | ✅ |
| Clarifications | ✅ |
| Future tense | ✅ |
| Common prepositions | ✅ |
| Polite forms | ✅ |
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📝My German notes
Grammar Requirements:
Formula (Future with “werden”):
Subject + conjugated werden + rest of sentence + infinitive at end
Ich werde morgen einkaufen gehen.
→ “I will go shopping tomorrow.”
🎯 German Cases
Nominative → subject (who/what does the action).
Accusative → direct object (who/what is acted on directly).
Dative → indirect object (to/for whom something is done).
Definite Articles (“the”)
| Case | Masc | Fem | Neut | Plural |
| Nominative | der | die | das | die |
| Accusative | den | die | das | die |
| Dative | dem | der | dem | den |
Indefinite Articles (“a/an”)
| Case | Masc | Fem | Neut |
| Nominative | ein | eine | ein |
| Accusative | einen | eine | ein |
| Dative | einem | einer | einem |
Pronouns
| Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative |
| ich | ich | mich | mir |
| du | du | dich | dir |
| er | er | ihn | ihm |
| sie (sing.) | sie | sie | ihr |
| es | es | es | ihm |
| wir | wir | uns | uns |
| ihr | ihr | euch | euch |
| sie (pl.) | sie | sie | ihnen |
| Sie (formal) | Sie | Sie | Ihnen |
Adjective Endings (Definite + Indefinite Articles)
With Definite Article (der/die/das, etc.)
| Case | Masc | Fem | Neut | Plural |
| Nominative | -e | -e | -e | -en |
| Accusative | -en | -e | -e | -en |
| Dative | -en | -en | -en | -en |
Examples:
- der große Hund (Nom masc)
- den großen Hund (Acc masc)
- der kleinen Frau (Dat fem)
With Indefinite Article (ein/eine/ein)
| Case | Masc | Fem | Neut |
| Nominative | -er | -e | -es |
| Accusative | -en | -e | -es |
| Dative | -en | -en | -en |
- From nominative to Accusative, only the masculine forms are chagned; der is changed to den, ein to einen
- Definite and indefinite for masculine and neutral, both change to dem and einem.
- Dative feminiem both change to -r; der and einer
- Definite articles (the), only
- Masculine and plural accusative adjective conjugations end in -en, all Dative definite and indefinite will conjugate adjective endings to -en
✅ Bronze 4 German Test Results
1. Shopping
You are in a café. Order something to eat and something to drink.
ich mochte bestellen das Salat mit Huhn, und ein Tee bitte.
✅ Ich möchte den Salat mit Huhn und einen Tee, bitte.
- “den Salat” (accusative, masculine).
- “einen Tee” (also accusative).
2. Asking for clarification
How would you politely say:
“Sorry, I don’t understand. Can you repeat that, please?”
es tut mir leid, kannst du das wierderholen?
✅ Es tut mir leid, können Sie das wiederholen, bitte?
- “wiederholen” instead of “wierderholen.”
- Using “können Sie” is the polite form (you could also say “kannst du” if informal).
3. Directions
A tourist asks you: “Where is the pharmacy?” (Give a short direction using words like right, left, straight ahead, next to, etc.)
Die apoteke ist in der nahe, beigen sie links, dann geradeaus, neben die cafe, Lions cafe.
✅ Die Apotheke ist in der Nähe. Biegen Sie links ab, dann gehen Sie geradeaus. Sie ist neben dem Café, dem Lions Café.
- “Apotheke” spelling.
- “neben dem Café” → dative after “neben.”
4. Plans (future tense)
How would you say:
“Tomorrow I will meet my friend, and in the evening I will read a book.”
morgen, ich werder minen freunde treffen, und am abend ich werder ein buch lesen.
✅ Morgen werde ich meinen Freund treffen, und am Abend werde ich ein Buch lesen.
- “werder” → “werde.”
- “meinen Freund” (accusative).
5. Prepositions
Describe the position:
- Where is the phone? (for example: on the table, under the chair, etc.)
- Where is the lamp?
wo ist das telefon? es ist auf der tisch.
Wo ist die Lampe?
✅ Das Telefon ist auf dem Tisch.
✅ Die Lampe ist … (here you just need to choose a place, e.g., “Die Lampe ist über dem Tisch” / “Die Lampe ist neben dem Bett.”)
💥Overall: You passed this set for Bronze 4 🎉 Only a few grammar/punctuation tweaks needed, but your sentences are understandable and clear.
🎯 Next Steps / Goals
Onto bronze 5! Basic conversations, everyday survival topics, repeated phrases, string short thoughts together. Slowly build up more on holding basic conversations.
📚 Resources I Used
- ChatGPT (for sentence practice + explanations + tests)
- YouTube (for pronunciation + listening)
- Google Translate (for fast checks)
- My language language learning structure (coming soon)
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