Lernen Sie Deutsch!

[Testyal]

tl;dr = too long; didn't read.

And I'll do a lesson when I have the energy. This isn't a lesson-per-day deal.

[Thakowsaizmu]

You should take a few days to really get a good idea of what you are doing.

[Testyal]

You should take a few days to really get a good idea of what you are doing.

Actually, good point. What should I do for my next lesson? Some more nouns, perhaps?

[Tanni]

tl;dr = too long; didn't read.

My posts or the links I provided?

Obviously, you aren't interested on subjects dealing with the things you want to teach! Not a good attitude for a teacher!

And I'll do a lesson when I have the energy. This isn't a lesson-per-day deal.

Yes, of course! Making good tutorial material does require lots of time!

[Testyal]

@Tanni Your posts were too long, I'm afraid.

[Testyal]

Teil vier
More about nouns
You should already know that German has three genders, but did you know about its four cases?
There are-
Nominative - Marks the agent of a transitive sentence and the subject of a non-transitive one
Genitive - Marks the owner of an object
Accusative - Marks the passive of a transitive sentence
Dative - Marks the indirect object in any sentence

Two things decline according to the gender and the case of the noun directly in front of it- determiners and adjectives. We'll get onto adjectives and other determiners later but for now, we'll just do simple articles.

The
Gender - Nominative, Genitive, Accusative, Dative
Masculine - Der, Des, Den, Dem
Feminine - Die, Der, Die, Der
Neuter - Das, Des, Das, Dem
Plural - Die, Der, Die, Den

A
Gender - Nominative, Genitive, Accusative, Dative
Masculine - Ein, Eines, Einen, Einem
Feminine - Eine, Einer, Eine, Einer
Neuter - Ein, Eines, Ein, Einem
Plural- Meine, Meiner, Meine, Meiner

[Ossicone]

If you're going to do lessons do them properly. There is nothing here that I couldn't have gotten off of the wiki.

[Ear of the Sphinx]

Masculine - Ein, Eines, Einen, Einem
Feminine - Eine, Einer, Eine, Einer
Neuter - Ein, Eines, Ein, Einem
Plural- Meine, Meiner, Meine, Meiner

Lüge!

BTW, why do you place Accusative before Dative?

[Thakowsaizmu]

Not only that, but seeing as you are on a ConLanging forum, I don't think you really need to tell us what the cases are for. Maybe when they act differently than one might expect, or special cases and idioms, such as mir ist kalt "I am cold". Also, I would think that kein &c. should be included in the "simple articles".

[Testyal]

I'm useless.

[Tanni]

Again, as articles are usually not capitalized, you should give them in the usual form.

[Ossicone]

It's not that you're useless but rather that teaching is not as easy as it may seem.
Languages are complicated things, you can't expect to just go:

Blah A is blah blah and Blah B is blah blah blah

And expect people to get anything from it. You have to explain it and show how it's used.

[Ear of the Sphinx]

I may try to teach you.

[Testyal]

I'm a linguist, not a teacher. Milyamd, I leave it to you.

Actually, I'll keep doing it, but I'll just research a bit more on *ahem* teaching.

[Ear of the Sphinx]

I'm not a linguist nor a teacher and mein Deutsch ist ganz schlecht. Ergo, you decline articles, not nouns, in German.

[Testyal]

Das Alphabet

We all love the alphabet. Especially in German.
Pronounce-
a /ɑ/
b /b/
c (used only in loanwords) /k, s/
d /d ~ t/
e /e ~ ə/
f /f/
g /g/
h /h/
i /i/
j /j/
k /k/
l /l/
m /m/
n /n/
o /o, ɒ/ (I don't know, now, do I?!)
p /p/
q (You will hardly ever see this, so don't expect it) /k/
r /r, ʁ, ɐ/ (Don't give a damn what you say)
s /z ~ s/
t /t/
u /u/
v /f/
w /v/
x (Don't think it's ever used)
y /y, ʏ/
z /ts/
ß /s/
ä /ɛ/
ö /œ/
ü /y, ʏ/
ch /x, ç/
sch /ʃ/
qu /kv/
ei /aɪ/
ie /i:/
eu & äu /ɔʏ/

Right, I want you to pronounce-
Ich hätte
Du bist
Wir sind


Germans on this forum, I wish for you to punish me.

[tev]

I´m German, maybe I can help.
If you have question send me a pn.

[Aevas]

ich hätte [ɪç ˈhɛtə]
du bist [du bɪst]
wir sind [viːɐ̯ zɪnt]

The question is, how can one know this from your post?

[Testyal]

The question is, how can one know this from your post?

By looking at the alphabet above. I probably didn't get them all right, though.

[Thakowsaizmu]

The question is, how can one know this from your post?

By looking at the alphabet above. I probably didn't get them all right, though.

Looking just at what you have posted, I get:

/ix hEttE/
/du bizt/
/vI: zind/

Also, the <r> is important and <y> is /y/ or /Y/. <qu> is /kv)/