Guide to German
The Oral
First of all the German Oral is no big deal. Actually it’s piss compared to Irish and French. You can learn off about 85% of it.
You get five picture stories and five role plays to learn. You do one of each on the day each worth 30 marks out of 100. That’s 60% of the oral that you just learn off. While doing the oral make sure you manipulate the role play card. You could nearly do a decent role play and get 30/30 without ever seeing one before.
Also keep the picture story simple. You only need a 15 sentences for top marks. Don’t pass any heed of the nerds and losers who learn pages. I got an A1 with 15 sentences for each. I know its attractive and I don’t mean to sound like a teacher but don’t gamble. Learn all of the role plays and picture stories. It doesn’t really take that long.
You can also easily get 20/40 on the 5 minute general conversation. You will not be asked anything hard only about school, holidays, sport and the family. Nobody gets abstract questions.
The Listening
This is another place to pick up the marks. I cannot really offer much advice except to practice as many as you can from the past papers.
now dat is totally the wrong answer….German is one of the hardest languages when it comes to the Aural….especially when you are asked to discuss features of the language….also you havnt talked about the actual written paper which deals with how you can use the language techniques learned.You must know TMP, the tenses,conjunctions,word order, the 4 Faller und so weiter, also es ist nicht leicht !!!!!
also ist es twat
Its not too hard, but its not easy either. I found the Irish easier than the German. But we all have our strenghts
To Ciaran:
In the half a sentence of German that you typed you managed to make a grammar mistake.
Nice one