Hello,
Given that I don't have the time for proper lessons I've decided to make German my 3rd language by myself. So the purpose of this thread is to share tips and on-line resources to help the self teaching.
I thought that watching german films with the subtitles could help me to guess the pronunciation and observe grammar structures in "real" conversations. I'm not really sure but I suppose music could help, when I first learnt english I used to translate songs and it helped me to acquire vocubulary.
Any other tips? An on-line german-german or german-english dictionary would be great.
There are more diverse multiple dialects than in English, so be wary of that.
There's always Babel Fish (pretty much worthless, but it's a start for computer-aided translation)
http://babel.altavista.com/
I love this two-way dictionary/thesaurus (just noticed it has Spanish as well)
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
Thanks a lot, I'm sure this will be helpful.
Does anyone know about any add-ons for firefox that could help with this?
I found this one:
http://www.polarcloud.com/firefox
It is for japanese translations, does anyone know anything similar for german?
Several dialects of German dictionaries here, for use with Firefox's spell checker.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3
Have a look through the extensions available, see if there's anything you can use.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:37/sort:popular
Which one should I learn? which one should I download? hmmmm... :(
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Can't help you there; maybe just pick the most widely spoken dialect.
For another good German/English dictionary, try LEO: http://dict.leo.org/