2020 is here and it is the best year to learn German!
Here’s why:
2020
2 corresponds to the letter B. B is the first letter in best.
20 corresponds to the letter T. T is the first letter in to.
2+0+2+0 = 4.
4 corresponds to the letter D. D is the first letter of Deutsch.
so we get:
Best to Deutsch
Case closed!
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Happy new year, everyone :)!
And see you soon with articles on holen, prefix verbs, man and much more stuff :).
Frohes Neujahr!
Best to Deutsch sounds great! In fact, one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to be able to read a German book for grownups by the end of the year, as I’m still only able to read books for 13-year-olds!
Need looooooots of help with prefix verbs, so I’m counting on you :)
Bis bald!
Los Versammel Sie.
2020 heißt mehr Grammartik und Wörter
Vielleicht
Prefix verbs?
Perpostions combination?
Free realtive clauses?
Und mehr. mit unserem Held – Emanuel
I usually have a second language I’m learning along with German, be it Norwegian, Russian, Esperanto, Korean… etc etc
Jack of all trades but master of none, my German isn’t too good despite having studied 3 years now (infrequently).
This year I’m buckling down and committing to German everyday. After all, it is the best year to learn German.
Wait, you’re have had multiple side languages :)? Are you fluent in those now?
And also… isn’t that incredibly confusing to learn vocabulary for two languages at the same time??
And last question, how difficult do you find German in comparison with Russian :)?
I’m not fluent in any of them haha, :(
It’s not too confusing to learn two languages at the same time, there are enough quirks to separate a language from another. However, it is time consuming and often I wouldn’t have enough time to dedicate for both. That’s why I’m focusing on just German, and once I become sufficient in German I’ll try another language again (Finnish seems fun).
Russian is a bit more difficult than German. German has a lot of cognates with English whereas Russian has few, and the case endings seem much more complex than German.
Yeah, try Finnish, once you’re fluent in German. It’s incredibly cute sounding (to my ears anyway).
Danke Emanuel. Fur mich bist du der beste Lehrer in der Welt. Dank dir habe ich viel gelernt. Liebe Gruse aus Serbien
Danke dir :). Liebe Grüße zurück!!
Und noch eine Frage. Was ist der Unterschide zwichen hinder behindern und verhindern? Danke im Voraus
Thanks for a great blog. Have you ever done anything on dadurch just something that comes to mind.
The best explanation I saw for dadurch was in Hammer’s Grammar. It is a way to encode in German something you would write in English with by + ing-infinitive. For example, Learn everyday, by using every opportunity. You could translate that with dadurch as: Lernen Sie im Alltag dadurch, dass Sie jede Gelegenheit nutzen.
You could also use indem for that: Lernen Sie im Alltag, indem Sie jede Gelegenheit nutzen.
Alternatively, but with a slightly different phrase structure, durch + a nominal expression also works:
Lernen Sie im Alltag durch das Nutzung von jeder Gelegenheit.
For me the durch or indem variants are the easier to use, because indem usually just comes at the beginning of the the new Satz, and durch just falls naturally in the sentence. My main struggle with dadurch is that where exactly it should pop up on the phrase is a little random for me. Sometimes it is at the end as in the example I wrote there, but could be practically anywhere.
Some more examples from my Anki flashcards I could find on the thema:
He escaped by jumping out of the window.
Er rettete sich, {{c1::indem}} er aus dem Fenster sprang.
indem, (or dadurch dass, oder durch) are all forms for the English ‘by’ (or ‘through’) + ‘ing’-form.
Here an example in the wild: https://twitter.com/peakcelina/status/1122157675922501633
She used indem there, but dadurch fits as well:
Heute 50€ verdient dadurch, dass ich einen alten Monitor verkauft habe.
(I have earned €50,00 today, by selling an old monitor.)
Yet another example in the wild from the same Twitterin:
https://twitter.com/peakcelina/status/1100347033515372545
Annoying people on the cluster by blocking both GPUs with my program.
Thanks for such a detailed explanation.
Would dadurch have other possible common meanings ? If it had only this main by + ing-infinitive meaning. Then it I’d simple to understand.
Of course it has. This is German. Every rule has an exception and nothing is obvious. There’s the meaning covered on Emanuel’s article below, and there is also a possibility to translate it as: thereby, thus, therefore, whereby, consequently, therethrough, through, because, then, such, hence, result, comprising, making, allowing…. Take a look at reverso.net: https://context.reverso.net/%C3%BCbersetzung/deutsch-englisch/dadurch .
Have you read my post?
“…, indem” and “… dadurch, dass…” can be interchanged most of the time (though there are exceptions of course).
However, thinking of dadurch as “by … -ing” is doing more harm than good in my opinion because it omits the normal da-word use.
We need to distinguish between form and function. Function is expressing the notion of “by means of”. Function is like a da-word.
Good point. I was just following the Hammer’s German Grammar convention. It did help me understand some of its uses, but then I realised it was broader than just by .. – ing.
Follows the relevant excerpt (page 286, section 13.7.2, Hammers German Grammar and Usage , Fourth Edition) – just realised now that they also though +ing is also a possible translation…
13.7.2 The English ‘ing’-form after prepositions
(a) ‘by’ or (through) + ing-form: This construction usually corresponds to a clause with dadurch, dass, or indem (see 19.7.3), or to durch followed by an infinitival noun. Thus the following are possible equivalents for the English sentence: ‘He escaped by jumping out of the window’:
Er rettete sich, dadurch, dass er aus dem Fenster sprang.
Er rettete sich, indem er aus dem Fenster sprang.
Er rettete sich durch einen Sprung aus dem Fenster.
Yes, I have :)
https://yourdailygerman.com/durch-meaning-prefix-preposition/
Just became a member a few days ago and have been consuming the older posts eagerly. Thanks for the amazing content. My own goal for 2020 is to achieve fluency until August, so I have a lot of catching up to do!
It’s definitely possible. The one big recommendation I would make is that you find something in German to read. something that you enjoy. And then read a bit with a loud voice every day.
Thanks for the suggestion. Ich habe es meinem My Daily German hinzugefügt. https://www.thorrudbek.de/mydailygerman/
Wow, thanks a lot. I really really like your description for my site :).
Ps: If you have design update suggestions let me know. I want to do something but I don’t know what :D
I’m a mess with design as well… I just used the exact simple-blog template from Gatsby for a static blog, but your case is probably a whole other beast. Are you using a custom-hosted WordPress? There might be some way to migrate it to a more modern platform… We can brainstorm it offline later if you want.
I’m absolutely not going to migrate, so no need for brainstorming :D.
I like wordpress for the flexibility it gives me with the code.
And because of the simple text editor for writing.
All other things I have seen (Wix, Sqarespace, etc) SUCK! I can’t do this block based system for writing an essay :).
Let me ask differently then… what functionality are you missing that a more modern platform might provide? Maybe I can add it.
This is how Dan Brown write his books.
Hahaha… yeah, my favorite author.
Also
DAN = 4 1 14 = 4114
The sum is 10. The sum of that is 1.
brown is the first color in the color alphabet of ancient civilization #27.
B R O W N = 2 18 15 23 14
Sum is 72.
Dan Brown has written 72 books.
7+2 = 9.
9 is the further away from 1.
Dan Brown
1 9
Sum is 10. Sum is 1.
ILLUMINATIVE CONFIRMED!!!