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🎥 Speaking German:
🧾 Intro / Reflection
I’ll probably repeat this often, but it’s true, German has been the hardest language for me. I’ve been learning it for a year and a half, but it never really stuck. No matter what app I used, I always felt like I wasn’t actually using the language, just memorizing to pass tests.
That’s why I like my ranking system. It forces practicality instead of just recall.
That said, this week still had its rough patches. I had to pause the test just to go back and relearn a few things even after studying. Feels like German is going to be the language that slows me down the most.
Still stacking passive income with beermoney apps to help me mentally power through. It’s not much, but every little bit helps. 👇
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📚 What I Learned This Rank
✅ Bronze 2 Complete
| Category | Covered |
|---|---|
| Age | ✅ |
| Time / date | ✅ |
| Colors | ✅ |
| Like / Dislikes / Favorites / Hobbies | ✅ |
| Daily activities | ✅ |
| Possessive pronouns | ✅ |
| Past tense | ✅ |
🧠 Examples of What I Can Say Now
- ich bin zwanzig Jahre alt – I’m 27 years old
- es ist zwei Uhr siebenundvierzig – it’s 2:47
- Ich spiele gerne Klavier – I like playing the piano
- Ich lese nicht gern – I don’t like reading
- mein Hobby ist Videospiele spielen – my hobby is playing videogames
📝My Mandarin notes
🎂 Age & ⏰ Time
- Ich bin siebenundzwanzig Jahre alt – I am 27 years old
- Es ist + number + Uhr – It’s __ o’clock
→ Es ist sieben Uhr – It’s 7 o’clock
→ Es ist fünf Uhr fünfunddreißig – It’s 5:35
🕖 Daily Times & Places
- Ich stehe um + time + auf – I get up at…
→ Ich stehe um sieben auf – I get up at 7 - Ich wache um + time + auf – I wake up at…
- Ich gehe um + time + Uhr + zur + place – I go to ___ at ___
→ Ich gehe um sieben Uhr zur Arbeit – I go to work at 7
📆 Months
- Januar | Februar | März | April | Mai | Juni | Juli
- August | September | Oktober | November | Dezember
🎨 Colors
- Rot – Red | Blau – Blue | Grün – Green | Gelb – Yellow
- Schwarz – Black | Weiß – White | Braun – Brown
- Grau – Gray | Rosa – Pink | Lila – Purple | Orange – Orange
🌈 Favorites
- Lieblingsfarbe – Favorite color
- Mein Favorit – My favorite
❓ Likes / Hobbies
- Was machst du gerne? – What do you like to do?
- Ich spiele gerne Klavier – I like playing piano
- Ich schaue gerne Fernsehen – I like watching TV
- Ich spiele gerne Videospiele – I like playing video games
- Ich höre gerne Musik – I like listening to music
🦷 Daily Routine Verbs
- Ich putze meine Zähne – I brush my teeth
- Ich frühstücke – I eat breakfast
- Ich studiere Sprachen – I study languages
- Ich esse zu Mittag – I eat lunch
- Ich dusche – I take a shower
- Ich esse zu Abend – I eat dinner
- Ich gehe ins Bett – I go to bed
- Ich gehe schlafen – I go to sleep
🚫 Negation Rules
- Nicht – negates verbs, adjectives, adverbs, or nouns with definite articles
- Kein – negates nouns without articles or with “ein”
🧍 Possessive Pronouns (Possessivpronomen)
- Masculine / Neutral
- mein – my
- dein – your
- sein – his / its
- ihr – her / their
- unser – our
- euer – your (plural)
- Ihr – your (formal)
- Feminine
- meine – my
- deine – your
- seine – his / its
- ihre – her / their
- unsere – our
- eure – your (plural)
- Ihre – your (formal)
- Plural
- meine – my
- deine – your
- seine – his / its
- ihre – her / their
- unsere – our
- eure – your (plural)
- Ihre – your (formal)
⏳ Past Tense (Perfekt) – Common Conversational Past
Structure:
haben/sein (present) + Partizip II (Past Participle)
- ✅ Most verbs use haben
Beispiel:
Ich habe gegessen – I ate / I have eaten
Wir haben gearbeitet – We worked - ✅ Movement or state change verbs use sein
Beispiel:
Ich bin gegangen – I went
Sie ist gekommen – She came
Wir sind geblieben – We stayed
Common Past Participles (Partizip II):
- machen → gemacht (done/made)
- arbeiten → gearbeitet (worked)
- spielen → gespielt (played)
- essen → gegessen (eaten)
- trinken → getrunken (drunk)
- gehen → gegangen (gone/went)
- kommen → gekommen (come/came)
- bleiben → geblieben (stayed)
- fahren → gefahren (driven/traveled)
✅ Bronze 2 German Test Results
✅ Section 1: Small Talk
- “ich bin funfundzwanzig”
➤ ✔️ Correct idea! Just a small spelling note: fünfundzwanzig (don’t forget the umlaut on ü). - “was magst du gerne?”
➤ ✔️ Grammatically great! Alternative more natural version: Was machst du gern? (What do you like to do?) or Was magst du? (What do you like?)
✅ Pass
⚠️ Section 2: Hobbies & Daily Activities
- “ich spiele gerne kalvier, aber Ich spiele gerne nicht guitarre”
➤ You’re close! Correction:- “Ich spiele gern Klavier, aber ich spiele nicht gern Gitarre.”
(“gerne” and “gern” are both okay, but “nicht gern” is the proper way to say you don’t like doing something.)
- “Ich spiele gern Klavier, aber ich spiele nicht gern Gitarre.”
- “ich studiere sprache. Ich hore gerne musik”
➤ Great structure! Just spelling fixes:- Sprache is fine, but you might want to say Sprachen (languages, plural).
- höre (needs umlaut on ö): Ich höre gern Musik.
- “ich wache auf sieben uhr”
➤ Very close! Add a preposition and fix time structure:- Ich wache um sieben Uhr auf.
- “ich gehe um acht uhr zur schule”
➤ ✔️ Perfect!
⚠️ Almost Pass — just watch word order & verb placement.
✅ Section 3: Possessive Pronouns
- “mein name ist Andy.” ✔️
- “er hobby ist lesen” ➤ Slight fix:
- Sein Hobby ist Lesen. (“His hobby” = sein Hobby; capitalize Lesen since it’s a noun.)
- “ihr liebslingfarbe ist blau”
➤ Very close! Correct spelling:- Ihre Lieblingsfarbe ist blau.
(“Lieblingsfarbe” = favorite color. Capitalize nouns!)
- Ihre Lieblingsfarbe ist blau.
✅ Pass (with minor spelling issues)
✅ Section 4: Present Tense Verbs
- spielen conjugation
- ich spiele ✔️
- du spielst ✔️
- er spielt ✔️
- wir spielen ✔️
- ihr spielen ❌ → should be spielt
✔️ Correct version:- ihr spielt
- “ich lese das buch”
✔️ Excellent!
⚠️ Almost Pass due to small error on ihr spielt, but your grasp of verb conjugation is solid overall.
✅ Section 5: Time & Date
- “es ist drei uhr dreizig”
➤ ✔️ Understandable! More natural:- Es ist halb vier (German counts time toward the next hour).
- Literal version fixed: Es ist drei Uhr dreißig (use ß or ss for sharp S).
- “es ist mittwoch heute”
➤ ✔️ Good! Slightly more natural: Heute ist Mittwoch. - “mein geburtstag ist in juli”
➤ Close! Fix article:- Mein Geburtstag ist im Juli.
✅ Pass
🏁 Final Verdict:
You’ve passed Bronze 2! 🎉
You’re confidently using:
- Possessive pronouns
- Present tense
- Likes/dislikes
- Daily activity structure
- Simple questions
Your spelling, word order, and verb placement are very close — just needs some polishing, especially for compound verbs like aufwachen and details like im Juli or nicht gern.
🎯 Next Steps / Goals
Next rank: Bronze 3 – talking about daily routine, food, weather, feelings. Building more on describing things and short 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)
🌍 Bonus Resources You Might Like
- 🧠 Duolingo – decent for language base, I personally don’t like it.
- 💬 r/languagelearning – check their FAQ for app lists and learning resources. I rarely browse, but it’s a popular hub.
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🌍 Language Learning Glossary:
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👉 Language progress