how the fuck do i learn german without having to spend 700 dollars on a 3 month Goethe Institute course?Genuinely what the fuck am I supposed to do? How on earth do people learn a language in 2026? You'd think there'd be an answer by now.
>>34267274Watch German movies. Try find someone online to practice conversation. How did you learn your first language? By taking a fucking course?
>>34267287i want something that will say learn these words this week and learn this grammar thing this week, every week. i can't handle no structure. i cant imagine freestyling like that gets people very far.
>>34267289Dude, I got these books off of ebay for less than $5 each.
>>34267289>give me /adv/ice>no no, not that kind of adviceduolingo
>>34267297so what do i do? just read and study a textbook?>>34267299duolingo is a meme
>>34267274From the perspective of someone who learned Japanese, which should be a much harder language than German, I assume. You need book learning for grammar, memorization for vocab, and immersion to actually read it. Find a good textbook, it probably doesn't matter which. These are easy to pirate. There's probably a YouTube playlist that does what a textbook does but that's kind of annoying. The textbook is relatively short compared to how much time you'll actually be spending with the language. Google Anki and how to use it for language learning, and find a good anki deck of german vocab. You have to do your vocab every single day so don't skimp on it. You can set it up so it's only 5 to 10 minutes a day or more if you're feeling it. Do the vocab everyday and learn the textbook at whatever pace you want, front to back. You will not *know* the grammar but you will have a handle on the structure and how the language actually works. Whenever you feel ready, the sooner the better, start immersing yourself in the language by reading whatever German material you can find, easy simple stuff is better but try to do stuff you actually find interesting and want to read. Follow along with a dictionary and add those words to your Anki if you want. Do this for dozens of hours and eventually you will be reading German. Speaking is an entirely different skill, but it's the same concept, practice it a lot if you want.
>>34267274as another person who learned Japanese, and incidentally didn't learn German despite taking it in school for 5 years, it's pretty much like >>34267348 said. No one's invented a brain implant to teach you languages so for the moment you just have to spend a lot of fucking time reading and listening and talking until it sticks. You might be underestimating the time commitment required. Even if you go to a class for the "structure", you're still gonna have to motivate yourself to spend 10x more time outside of class to actually get anywhere. I don't see much point in paying for introductory lessons personally.
>>34267348>>34267418IMHO Japanese is easier than German. Speaking that is, reading/writing not so much. The sentence structure, genders, past/future tesnse is much simpler.
Pirate materials, and use duolinguo and anki?Play video games with German language tracks, if there's even such a thing.
>>34267274Duolingo
How come I have an impeccable english with a generic US/Canada’s accent that nobody ever guess that english is a second language until I tell them. But as soon as I write on a message board, Everyone can guess I’m ESL? Also why do people care about that here? Is my grammar so bad?
>>34267703people irl are friendly, people online are hostile
Germanhttps://archive.org/details/deutsch-nach-der-naturmethodehttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhc0J7rC_vQMUBIVdaj---V5Frenchhttps://archive.org/details/jensen-arthur-le-francais-par-la-methode-naturehttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhdIS7NMcdUdxibD1UyzNFTPItalianhttps://archive.org/details/LitalianoSecondoIlMetodoNaturahttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhfQonvCySTrKEUV742WzshJSpanishhttps://archive.org/details/firstspanishbook00wormrichhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhdS2G2XvTB5gDsr4iyIbbsNIts not harder to learn all four at the same time
>>34267274Italki has online tutors and it's not that expensive
