Learning German for Reading? Any suggestions?
Any suggestions on grammars that can be used to "self teach" German for reading? I own an old (very marked up) copy of Jannach's 3rd ed., along with Ziefle's Modern Theological German. I guess the same question could be applied to French, as I'll eventually have to tackle it.To add to my pain, I've been salivating over Italian (no, not pizza or pasta, but research). Claudio Bottini has written a monograph on Elijah's prayer in James (La preghiera di Elia in Giacomo 5,17-18. Studio della tradizione biblica e giudaica, Jerusalem 1981) - the subject of my thesis. I've used online translation programs to work through the text in places, but I know the danger involved in relying on Google or BabelFish!
Boy, I wish I had taken German in High School (or at least French) rather than Russian! (Russian was available where I grew up because I lived only a few miles away from NSA at the close of the Cold War.)
Cпасибо!
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posted by jdarlack @ 12.7.06
3 Comments:
Check out: http://gospelofmatthew.blogspot.com/2006/06/ich-liebe-german-advice-on-language.html
And thanks for the response on my blog, I'm picking up what you're putting down - and liking it!
Right now some friends and I are working through April Wilson's German Quickly, and it seems to be going well. Now if I could only remember everything I have studied...
I've not had the chance to do more than read the website but you might take a look at Rosetta stone.
It's been way too long since I learned German in High school. I used to be moderately fluent, now I could barely order coffee. :-|
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