Any tips for learning German?

1. Find a german specking club in your area, you can look on craig’s list or on meet up dot com.

2. Subscribe to German word a day email.

3. Look for german lesson podcasts.

This is all in addition to whatever course you are taking and whether or not you are using a language lesson software like Rosetta.

Tell us a bit more on what you are doing.

Sign up for a German American school exchange program.

@zenvelo I’ve been playing some vocabulary games and it helped me a lot on my numbers. The website has games and stuff.
I’m not using any software. Just prior knowledge and that.

Also, check Meetup and see if there is a group in your area that meets to speak/learn/practice/discuss German together.

My partner is learning French on his own. Here are some tips that have helped him:
* Invest in a decent German/English dictionary.
* If you aren’t enrolled in a class, consider an online course or self-paced training like Rosetta Stone.
* Read books in German. Start with ones geared for children. This way, with a dictionary in hand, you can work at your own pace.
* Listen to songs sung and internet radio reports in German. This will help in getting familiar with the pronunciation.
* Find someone who is German…and patient.
* Visit German or any German speaking country. My sister lived in Austria for a year, and she really honed her German skills while there.

When you want to say you are from Berlin, try not to say you are a jelly doughnut.

My oldest daughter is just a couple of years older than you and she is also learning German. She found even with 3 years of daily classes at her middle school and high school, lots of good dictionaries and German books and movies (and music)... she wasn’t fluent enough to actually speak in German.. so we’ve done a few things to help her along.

In our area there is a German-American Institute – so we get involved in activities/events there, and through the GAI we can locate a tutor for conversational tutoring classes (at a relatively affordable price). I recommend googling “German American Society” for your area and seeing if one exists. (There are a lot around the the US.)

Also, we have hosted German exchange students (3 so far, another is coming at Christmastime this year) and we’ve become such close friends with one of our exchange “daughters” that our daughter was able to go this summer for 3 weeks to stay with them in Germany.
You’re still a bit young for a year abroad..but perhaps if your family is willing/able to host an exchange student from Germany if you become good friends perhaps they’ll return the favor when you’re a bit older and perhaps you could visit them in Germany or do an exchange with them..
My cousin did this – he went for Grade 13 in Germany after graduating from US high school and being accepted to college (you can easily defer entry to University for a year). He stayed with family friends in a Swiss-German speaking area—after their son had stayed with his family for a year previously.

A school-year in Germany would give you fairly good fluency..the best way to learn a foreign language is by immersion.

Remember the main verb always goes at the end. So get used to thinking that way in English.
We have been for fourteen years Switzerland visiting. Etc…

Master a subject, say music and learn all the nouns from that. Then choose another subject when fini and repeat.

I think this will help you a lot, and it’s fun and free, and uses mnemonic science: http://www.memrise.com/language/eng/deu/

Get a standard German language textbook and devote half an hour a day to using it. I used that technique to study Italian prior to a vacation that I took there. Although I have since forgotten it all, after about 3 months of study I knew enough to ask directions, get a room and order food.