From: Kevin.Bresnahan@f49.n134.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Bresnahan)
Newsgroups: k12.lang.deutsch-eng
Subject: Learning A Little German #1
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:10:12 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:134/49 - The Student Exchang, Calgary Alta

Hthere again Jenn!
Thankyou for answering my letter back.  Sorry it's taken me a bit of time to answer it back but I just turned my modeon and got your letter yestereday and I didn't have time to write back.  So you would like to speak a little German! O.k.
You will probably want and SHD PRINT ALL or MOST of the notes that I sent across to you over the next while until you learn the vocabulary and the verbsI will NOT be entering right from a text book because what would be the point, you could buy a text bookwhich I had to learn from and for each rule there are about six pages of exceptions and explainations and they explain it to you in such a complicated mattethat if you had some idea of what to do by the time you finish reading the book, you are so confuse
that you don't know what to do and sif there is anything inparticular that you would like to know about the language just let me know or otherwise I will just be givinyou basically what you will probably want to use most often with your cousin.  So if you learn the vocabulary (memoriz, and the conjucations of the verbs than theres really nothing to it.
You were wondering about thpronounciation of some of the words.  O.k. that is going to be difficult to do - all I can do is give you the basic   I follow:
 RULES:
# 1:  WHEN SEEING, ALL LETTERS ARE PRONOUNCED EQUALLY. EXCEPT, THOSE LIKE IN TIEBE, THAN LIKE THE ENGLISH WORD HEIGHT ONLY THE "I" IS PRONOUND.
YOU MUST NOT FORGET TO PRONOUNCE THE "E" ON THE END OF THE WORD.
   (please ignore the funny signs and the AL at the beginning of this lineecause I have been typing too fast for the program I guess)
#2: The letter "W" in german is pnounced as a "V" would be in English.
#3: The letter "V" in german is pronounced as a "F" would be in English.
: Finally - this is it I think for pronounciation - if you see me write in german a verb like MOECHN (to like) I had to put a letter "E" after the letter "because in German you have what they call an umlaut which is two dots over the letter "O" and since computers cannot do them, people
jusput a letter "E" afterwords.  The umlaut can also be over the letters "A" and "U".  So wheer you see an "E" after these letters this usually means that there is suppossed to be an umlaut over them.  BUT you must also realize that the lette"E" after the letter "T" in MOECHTEN is
supposed to be there.  IF you have any questions on these things please
dot hesitate to write me back I will try to explain them better.
ALSO YOU SAID THAT YOU WEREN'T SURE ABOUT THE NUMBERS IN GERMAN?
   WELL HERE THEY ARE:
EINS = ONE (1)
ZWEI = TWO (2)
DREI = THREE3)
VIER = FOUR (4)
FUENF = FIVE * NOTICE THAT THE "E" AFTER THE "u" IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE 
UMLAUT OVER IT!
SECHS = SIX
SIEBEN = SEVEN  * oNLY PRONOUNCE THE E SOUND (see
ACHT = EIGHT
NEUN = NINE (MAYBE GET YOUR COUSIN TO HELP YOU WITH 8 & 9.
ZEHTEN (THE E IN THIS SOUNDS LIKE A LONG A - PRONOUNCED ZANE)
ELF = ELEVEN
ZWOELFELVE
DREIZEHN = 13
VIERZEHN = 14
NOTICE THE PATTERN ----ZEHN (---- THE # BETWEEN 1 & 9)
FUENFZEHN = 15
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.
.
ETC.
  ZWANZIG = 20
EINUNDZWANZIG = 21
ZWEIUNDZWANZIG = 22 (NOTICE THAIT IS ACTUALLY 2 AND 20)
DREIUND ZWANZIG = 23
VIERUNDZWANZIG = 24
ETC.   ----UNDZWANZ
DREIZIG = 30
VIERZIG = 40
FUENFZIG = 50
SECHZIG = 60
SIEBZIG = 70
 ACHTZIG = 80
NEUNZIG = 90
HUNDERT = 100
rule # 6 for pronounciation! alU in german are long. Like as in bOOt.
if you don't understand how the number system works just let me ow. They
all follow the same pattern as the example I gave for 21, 22, 23, etc.
I just didn't have time to write out from 1 to 100.
O.k. at any time if you don't understand something PLEASE just write me a
note and I will give you some more explanatins.
                     CONJUCATIONS FOR VERBS
I = Ich
You = Du
he, she, it = ersie, es
we = wir
you (plural - when talking to several people)Ihre
Formal when talking
to an adult = Sie (capitalized S)
o.k. I have only five minutes left so I will use my dad's name and logon and continue. o.k. but when you write back PLEASE SE MY NAME. My dad
would not be able to help you at all and I would not get your letter.
so all letters from Bob Bresnahan are tually from KEVIN BRESNAHAN.
I hope you are printing all of this stuff out because therthere is almost because there is almost no way to rember it this fast.
- kevin Bresnahan


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