Anybody want to help me practise my German?

[lethargic_man]

As I posted a little while ago, I'm teaching myself German. I got myself a book, and am slowly ploughing through it on my own. The idea was to use the book to practise my reading (and to a small extent, writing and listening), and practise my writing, speaking and listening with aviva_m. Only it's not worked out that way: I've done hardly any speaking, and even less listening, with her. Part of the problem is that we've always got other things to talk about, part of the problem is that at present I only have a vocabulary of about five hundred words, and she doesn't of course know what they are (or didn't before I sent them to her the other day).

The problem with that is that of course it results in me being good at reading German slowly, but completely unable to keep up with German spoken at natural speed.

So (just on the off-chance), is there anyone here who would like to talk with me in (very simple) German, slowly, on a frequent basis (several times a week, if only for a short while each time), to help me improve my spoken and parsed-speech German?

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[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

You are in luck. Germans speak slower than most of the nations. I always had trouble to understand the French, Spanish, Italian and Israelis. Even the English on TV and radio were too fast for me when I was not so good yet. Germans don't talk that fast.
You could get a cassette or somebody records for you whatever book or text you read. You could also get a recorded reading for that but having somebody doing it for you might be easier as you recorded for me tunes for Shabbat for me. Are you reading children's books? They are easier for beginners. That is how I started when I learnt English. If I know the text you want to read I can record it for you. You could read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". I know it is not orginal German but it is not English either. It is actually Italian. But I did like the book in German.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

It is called "Die Raupe Nimmersatt" (The caterpillar neverfull). A more advanced children's book is "The Story of Ferdinand" written in New York. In German it is called "Ferdinand der Stier" (Ferdinand the bull). I had both books but sold them. I intended to teach it to get a bit of pocket money but at the end nobody was interested.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

You are in luck. Germans speak slower than most of the nations. I always had trouble to understand the French, Spanish, Italian and Israelis. Even the English on TV and radio were too fast for me when I was not so good yet. Germans don't talk that fast.

Pshaw; you only say that because you don't hear Germans speaking fast, because it's your native language. Regardless, it's still way too fast for me.

You could get a cassette or somebody records for you whatever book or text you read.

The book I'm learning from comes with a CD, but not everything is on the CD.

You could also get a recorded reading for that but having somebody doing it for you might be easier as you recorded for me tunes for Shabbat for me.

Do you fancy recording the passages that are not on the CD for me, then, as a way of returning the favour?

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I did not look up answers on LJ.
Yes, email me on my email then I get it. Believe me the majority of nations are a lot faster in particular French and Italians.