Learning any language is a continuous adaptive process. You can’t master german in just one day. Although you cannot learn german, there are strategies or tactics that you need to employ to master a language, which enables you learn any language fast enough without memorising vocabulary.

Dont get scared when you see an unknown word during the phase of learning. Infact you will be prompted to lookup the word in dictionary. There is another clever way to do it. Instead of deciphering the meaning of a unknown word or looking up everytime in dictionary, try to comprehend the whole meaning of sentence and the unkown word should fall in the same context of the sentence.

The best tactics to exploit german learning is using…

• Intuitive Guessing and Reasoning.
• Learn from Word Origins

1.  Learn by Guessing

This approach is applied in german sentences, by guessing or reasoning what possibly this sentence context could be ? By understanding the context you could possiblly guess the meaning of each vocabulary word you dont know its means. This is the best way to decipher the sentence.

English example:
When you read a magazine or newspaper article, the author expresses meaning through a flow of information by supporting or going against. Notice Conjunctions like “and” support the flow of context. “but” oppose the flow of context. When in a text these conjunctions appear, flow of context is altered.

and, accordingly-->  support the sentence
 concordantly --> support the sentence
 Ironically or Alternatively-->  oppose or goes against
 but, yet --> oppose/against meaning of sentence

Whenever the but comes in between two meaning or contxt it means before it the authors expresses himself supporting the meaning before and that comes after “but” must be against the context. This is known as reasoning. The vice versa applies. The same tactics apply in german.

und – and
aber – but
nicht – not

These are the best tactics that can be applied in learning german faster and quicker without memorising tons of vocabulary words.

2. Learn from Word Origins

Etymology means study of origins or history of words. Thousands of words in english stems from a particular root. The derived word from its ancestor must have some possible meaning related to its ancestor or its context or the meaning must revolve around its ancestors meaning. There is no need to memorise each and every word, which will save you plenty of learning time.

For example in english vocabulary “arch” means “old” in greek. Take a look at below words that stem from “arch”.

The whole meaning of ancient, historic, earlier, old revolves around “old”. Once you know or comprehend the possible context of root word, the rest of the words derive from root word must be in same context.

This is the best way to tackle any language not just german.

Some of german words are…

das Fußball

Look at last word. Everybody knows what a ball is, but what could its possible meaning be? Here it is. The germans say ‘fuss’ instead of ‘foot’ in english. so the exact meaning is “football”. As i said before only small variations exist between english and german.

der Sprachkurs

Guess this! Does kurs sound something like course? Does sprach sound something like speaking or something? It is! It means speaking course.

die Speisekarte

Another beautiful word in german. This must be some card because “karte” means card in english. What could this words meaning might be? Does “speise” sound its meaning something like ‘spice’ in english. But it is not spicecard. Get into general context where spice goes into. Does it belong to “food” context. Exactly ! This german word means food menu. Similarly

die Fahrkarte = travelcard
die Postkarte = post card
die Visitenkarte = visiting card