German/Planning

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Lesson To-Do

Level I

• Establish consistent table layout.
• Integrate problems and answers in the lessons.
• Split large lessons into smaller parts.

--Martin Kraus (talk) 11:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Lots to do out here. I am trying to revamp the study materials, as the lessons are a bit wary for new and beginners. Not only that the materials are out of basics. Assist if anyone wants to. Jai Jinendra. Vishal Bakhai - Works 08:38, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Level II

As like Level 3, this level will get totally redone, I currently have a plan for it, please tell me if you do not agree.

• Vocabulary: Culture, Animals, Computers, Internet, Mail, The World, Sickness, Science, and Art

Review of Level One (same topics, but with more info, detail, and/or depth): Food, Leisure, School, Clothes, Directions and Locations, Weather

• Grammar: Introduction to Genitive, More Der-Words, Compound Articles, Relative Pronouns, Declension of Adjectives, Adverbs, Subordinating Conjunction, Translations of "When", Past Participle, Future Tense, Reflexive Verbs, Negation, Every and Every-

Review of Level One: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Modals, Es gibt, Was Für...?, Verbs

Level two will be very heavy in grammar, but that will give the learner very much freedom in speak German casually with a native speaker, since they will already know so much vocabulary, I'm going to design the lessons now. --German Men92 23:53, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Lessons

They are rough, but somewhat detailed.

Lesson 1: Ernährung ~ Food, Verbs, Nominative Case, Models

Lesson 2: Tiere ~ Animals, Compound Articles, Accusative & Dative

Lesson 3: Kommunikation ~ Computers, Internet, Mail, Translations of "when", Introduction to the Genitive Case, Es gibt, Was für...?

Lesson 4: Kulture ~ Cultures around the world, Nationality, Languages, Relative Pronouns, every and every-, Strong & Weak Declinion of Adjectives

Lesson 5: Nein ~ Leisure Time, Negation, Genitive Case

Lesson 6: Gesundheit ~ Illness, the Body, Health Warnings, Introduction to Reflexive Verbs, Mixed Declension of Adjectives

Lesson 7: die Welt ~ Countries, Continents, Climates, Living Things, Reciprocal Pronouns, Indefinite Pronouns, Prepositions with the Infinitive and Zu

Lesson 8: eine Reise ~ North, East, etc. , More Places to Go, Vacationing, More der-words

Lesson 9: Kunst ~ Paintings, Theater, Music, Accusative Reflexive Pronouns, Subordinating Conjunction

Lesson 10: Schule ~ Review of School, Math, Past Participle, Dative Reflex Pronouns, Adverbs, Inseparable Verbs

Lesson 11: Bewölkt, Stürmisch, Gefährlich ~ Natural Disasters, More detail into Weather, Comparative, Superlative, Pronomial Compounds

Lesson 12: Naturwissenschaft ~ Elements, Astronomy, Sciences, Interworkings of Living Things, Future Tense

My suggestion is to forget about all these plans and restore the original Level II lessons. If someone really wants to write all this stuff, it can be used for Level IV. --Martin Kraus (talk) 11:51, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

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 x:\...\speexenc.exe x:\...\file.wav x:\...\file.ogg

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4. Click "Save page" then reload the page of the table you created audio for and make sure the "audio" link turns blue.
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Example:

{| {{German table|Dialogue|What's your name?|Wie heißt du?|131|2|Dialogue franz greta 1.ogg}}

produces:

Dialogue: What's your name? — Wie heißt du?