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My son has taken up german as 2nd language in school. needs help in sentence formation and grammer

You could do a search for "before you know it 3.5 lite" .
It's free to download and I think you get one free set of language lessons.

Im trying to decide what language to take next year in high school. German or spanish?

i think spanish is much easier, because the pronounciation is really hard in german. if you know latin (i don't think so but if you do) german will be easier for you to learn. however, i think you should take spanish

Hi, I would like to learn German but didn't have much luck with languages at school. It sounds to me like English and German are very similar in some aspects and a lot of the worlds I hear on the TV sound virtually identical. Is this the case?

Thanks!

I think if I can do it any one can. I think I was lucky as I lived in germany for 5 years whilst with the Military in Paderborn and Sennelager. My children were quite small then so I got to meet other childrens mothers who were German and they offered to help me learn, It was great! one day we went to my house and spoke nothing but English to teach them, and the next day we would go to a German friends house and speak nothing but german so I learnt quite quickly as I wanted to know what they were saying (in case they were making a fool of me) We could also ask if we didnt know the word.
You will find if you are Scottish it is maybe easier to learn, as a lot of the word sound similiar, (like Gaelic).
Go to a library and get a talking learning disc, and this will help you. also a vorterbook ..german for dictionary/german English you can pick one up very cheap in any shop that sell books.
Can you not get on a course if you are the lad that is in the forces?

I am currently in my Junior year of high school and my fourth year of German (AP). I enjoy speaking the language and I seem to be proficient in it, and I was wondering, if I continue my education of it in college, what possible careers may be available?

You can *consider* translation, but it is a very specialized thing to do, and it requires someone who is content to sit all day in front of a computer screen (often at home) and work without supervision, also handling all the business end — advertising, billing, chasing overdue payments, etc.

If you want to continue on with German, and live in-country for awhile, you could consider conference interpretation — but it is admittedly quite difficult for someone who started out with one language (I'm assuming you were monolingual in English originally) and acquired his German in high school to compete with Europeans who are multilingual from a very early age. Also, to interpret professionally you would probably need more than one source language, and work only into English.

German will be an asset (but not the deal-maker) in getting various jobs in trade, or things like the Foreign Service (which will promptly post you to a place that speaks, say, Swahili, not German!)

Generally speaking, whether it's German or any other language, if you're learning it in school, your best bet unless you are passionally devoted ONLY to languages is to make darn sure you learn something else. An MBA or law degree plus German looks mighty attractive to employers. Just German doesn't.

Take it from me — major in something else. Keep taking German. But don't major in it, then find you need an MA in German, then find you can't get a job, then do a Ph.D. in German, then find you don't like university teaching….

(BTW, whoever says you can be an interpreter at the UN obviously doesn't know much about how that organziation hires linguists. But you might end up a translator there, working into English. Doubtful though.)

I have been interested in learning the German language, however, I cannot find anywhere to learn it. The school I attend does not offer German and I think that I would do better learning on my own. I need some German language software, or even internet sites, but I can't find any that are not a lot to buy, and that I don't even know if they work. Somebody please help me!

http://uz-translations.net.