I've been trying to learn German through the Duolinguo app for a few months now. Not sure what I'm going to do with the language, but I have a long commute, so I figure that I may as well do something minorly constructive while I'm stuck on the bus.
Unfortunately, the app does absolutely nothing to teach grammar. Duolinguo claims that I am 9% fluent. That little bird is a gigantic fucking liar. I have absolutely no idea how you conjugate things. I don't know what cases are. I made some Anki decks to learn the der/die/das/etc, the ein/ein/einen, and the ending gender things (-ant/-age/-chen/etc). But I don't know where to go from there.
I tried going to Wikipedia, but I just end up feeling overwhelmed. I should note that I have no aptitude for language acquisition at all. I only made it through mandatory French in elementary school by using AltaVista Babelfish. But I've also just about finished with Human Japanese - again, it's a long commute - and I think I'm doing pretty well with that just because the explanations are so good. So I think I should ideally look for something like that, but for German. Does that exist?
tl;dr: please give German grammar for stupid.
Unfortunately, the app does absolutely nothing to teach grammar. Duolinguo claims that I am 9% fluent. That little bird is a gigantic fucking liar. I have absolutely no idea how you conjugate things. I don't know what cases are. I made some Anki decks to learn the der/die/das/etc, the ein/ein/einen, and the ending gender things (-ant/-age/-chen/etc). But I don't know where to go from there.
I tried going to Wikipedia, but I just end up feeling overwhelmed. I should note that I have no aptitude for language acquisition at all. I only made it through mandatory French in elementary school by using AltaVista Babelfish. But I've also just about finished with Human Japanese - again, it's a long commute - and I think I'm doing pretty well with that just because the explanations are so good. So I think I should ideally look for something like that, but for German. Does that exist?
tl;dr: please give German grammar for stupid.