Hi

Has anyone used this site?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/index.shtml

My german is non existant and thought about doing this before getting a tutor (if anyone knows a good tutor then please let me know)

S

Honestly, I haven't found a learn German website yet that I'm really happy with. I've done some learning in classes, books, audio tapes, etc., and classes have worked the best for me, albiet slower than I'd like.

If you're looking at websites, one useful site is http://german.about.com. Does a lot of English explanations of German, but not incredibly useful as a self-study tool, just as a reference.

Also, two sites I've found to be invaluable are:
http://dict.leo.org - German English dictionary.
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Ver...?languageID=17 - German verb conjugations. Really useful when you start learning the past tense, where the verbs (in my opinion) get confusing.

Cheers!

P.S. Um, to give a basis to my comments, I do have that BBC German website bookmarked... just haven't found it that helpful.

The german.about.com webite also has a verb conjugator tool. You just type in the verb and can get present, past and some other tenses. Quite handy.

http://german.about.com/library/verb...rb_Conjug1.htm

The second most useful site after Leo is Verbix. Which provides the conjungations for all verbs in all tenses, and even has a crack at those it doesn't recognise (ie ones you have made up or mispelled)

dave

Yeah, the main problem with it is that it doesn't do nearly enough of the verbs. Most of the ones on that list are verbs I'm comfortable with. But for a beginnner, you're right, it'll be fine!