As for German learning, I must have some words to utter generally, for I love to learn languages and have some special preference to this language on the other hand. No doubt, lots of people loving to learn languages must share the same or at least similar idea with me. German is one of the worth-learning languages in the world today. International citizens can perceive its power in the global economy, politics, culture and medical technology and so on. You shall not take no notice to this language. Once you have chosen this language, what should do next?
You had better find out one way to learn it. What I can think most today is using the audio materials to learn this language. Audio learning materials on German learning are various with different unique functions. No wonder, you can go to the audio store to buy the products that feature German learning; you can get online and search with Google to find the audio materials too; in fact, you can download lots of musical stuff to listen to although this way is not as useful as the serious ways; or perhaps you can get to some free learning websites where such learning materials are provided, featuring pronunciation and speaking abilities. Once such materials in your hands, you should hold them tight and learn them consistently. Your perseverance for any new language learning is quite important.
Next what I can think of is the software learning method. Why do I think of it after the audio way? Because probably money is a problem for so many language learners. Clearly the software learning is more expensive than the audio one, but much more helpful than the former. Rosetta Stone German is now the top brand amongst so many software programs online and on the market. Rosetta Stone German provides you with the intuitive way of learning: it helps you learn the pronunciation, vocabulary, sentence making, grammar and conversing one by one rather than show you all of such things altogether. Rosetta Stone also features the vocabulary acquisition in a unique manner that you can learn German words through different kinds of vivid pictures which show you no translation at all.
But some people may argue with me that German learning can be shortened by learning its sentence patterns. I cannot deny it but I cannot agree to this idea either. Sentence patterns play a key role for foreigners to learn this language, but never be something that can shorten your learning process, at least compared to Rosetta Stone German. Really if you can remember the German sentence patterns as many as you can, you will be able to speak German as fluently as the natives, for the natives have stored all kinds of sentence patterns inside their brains. They don't need to make up sentences by grammar rules, they make them through storage. But learning sentence patters, you can use some audio materials which feature this function and you can still use Rosetta Stone German too, but use it wisely this time. Even though this is not the feature of the software, you can learn patterns by reciting the featured sentences inside it. Using this way of Rosetta Stone Hebrew, you can also learn to speak Hebrew, which is another big language widely used in the Middle East.
Apart from all the methods above, you should also try to learn some background information of Germany and search for some interesting stories and cultural points in the German language, so that you will understand this language further and communicate with Germans more fluently.
Browsing all the things above, maybe you have learned something about learning a foreign language, especially the one you have chosen. If you want to learn more, click Rosetta Stone German and Rosetta Stone Chinese.