Originally Posted by etch5895
This may sound a little corny, but it works. If your local library has foreign language sections, check out some German children's books.
I hate to say it, but I have to learn new things via the Dr. Suess method as well.
I'd suggest learning the standard tourist necessities -- thank you, hello/goodbye, pardon me, where is the ... ? -- and also reading some K-2 kiddie primers. We all know in English, for example, the story of Dick and Jane, so when you see the equivalent in German, you've already got a conceptual hook to work with and then the difference in sentence structure isn't so strange.
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