This is a “sein” that I am learning German. His aka sein and her aka ihr have their nominativ and akkusativ forms and each again have their corresponding forms for masculine, feminine and neutral. At least the plural for his and her is always seine and doesn’t change with gender. Phew! Also, for singular, the nominativ and akkusativ forms are the same for both feminine and neutral making it a little easier.

Building German vocabulary along the way is also critical along with learning the grammar. But I don’t know how many times I had to look up the same word, it’s embarrassing! The real test comes when you hear the audio in the course and the sentences fly by and every time you recognize one word it’s like a firework in your brain. In that ecstasy you miss half of the next sentence. I wish the CD recordings were a little slower at least for the A1 students can absorb a little more. But anyways, we go over the new words the audio in our course book.

The fun began when we had to draw our classmate’s description of their house. I don’t remember how many years it has been since I drew eine Blume, ein Haus, ein Baum, ein Auto… 😊 😊 😊

Sudeep

We dived into Dativ today and it is not as scary as I thought it would be. Also, we learned about the locator words like vor, neben, hinter and über. No, it’s not the same as calling a uber. Über means over which is somewhat similar to English (with a thick British accent).
For the getting the article right you have to know the gender of the object. Seems like it all comes down to remembering if the object is a masculine, feminine or neutral. Since there is no trick to remembering this. You have to memorize for all the words in the German dictionary. Even synonyms can have different gender so the gender is really based on the word rather than the object itself.
I think this is the biggest problem everyone finds in German but it’s not the only language which has this. Some of the other languages I know like Hindi and Bengali also have a gender associated to the object. But I don’t remember memorizing the gender there when I was learning those languages and it just came to the students with time and practice. So, I am not stressing out about gender right now.

Sudeep

Wow we finished A1.1 and started A1.2. So unreal!
A little about myself, your blogger for the month. 😊
I moved to Munich from NY with my partner with no German knowledge. After a couple of months of job search, I figured out that without German it’s hard to find a job in Germany. After a quick google search of the available schools teaching German in Munich we found out about DeutschAkademie.

The first month with our fabulous teacher went so fast! We had students from India, South Korea, China, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Poland and Russia and had a wide range of ages from 20’s to the 60’s. So don’t let your age or ethnicity stop you from taking the course. The classes are all in German but our teacher was multilingual. Our A1.1 class ended with an amazing snack break with our wonderful classmates. Comment below if you want to know what each item is!

A1.1 course finished last week and for the first time in a while we did not have any homework. A break which I could have utilized a little better studying German but I was busy applying for jobs and enjoying Tollwood summer festival. We left A1.1 by going over different forms of a verb in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular and plural. We also learned about regular and irregular and trennbare verbs. We also did nominative and akkusative forms in a sentence. We ended by going over sentences in Perfekt form (Present Perfect). Now I just have to transfer it to my brain, easy huh!

Sudeep