Register  |  Login

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.

VN:F [1.9.3_1094]
Rating: 3.8/5 (13 votes cast)
Guide to German, 3.8 out of 5 based on 13 ratings

  • Stefan
    Euch allen viel Glueck oder viel Glueck für Euch alle and not viel gluck zu alle. Chaz your German sucks, and whats that with everybody having to get a life?....do you mean to-get a life! First rule of all languages, a lot of slang cannot be translated. Also nouns are written with capital letters. So go back to college and keep learning...Du Besserwisser !! schön Gruß aus Deutschland dipshit
  • Shane
    You must be on Drugs on sumtin mate....... it doesnt take long to learn 10 german oral sheets! whats about us dudes who hav the concentration of a leper! i know its all over with now but the oral was one of the hardest things this year.....!!
  • chaz
    actually also does not change the word order, might wanna check ur own grammer knowledge before ya judge others. i study german in college so im pretty sure im right on this one!! aber alle hier mussen ein leben bekommen. streit wird niemand helfen. ihr konnt nur studieren, viele arbeit machen, und dann hoffentlich werdet ihr okay sein, wenn ihr eure Prufung offnet!! vielen gluck zu euch!!
  • chaz
    actually also does not change the word order, might wanna check ur own grammer knowledge before ya judge others. i study german in college so im pretty sure im right on this one!! aber alle hier mussen ein leben bekommen. streit wird niemand helfen. ihr konnt nur studieren, viele arbeit machen, und dann hoffentlich werdet ihr okay wenn ihr eure Prufung offnen!! vielen gluck zu euch!!
  • Emma
    i do irish,french and german!! ive been shittin all of them but im really nervous about german cos i have to learn an entire role play!! and my teacher stares at ya for the whole thing and ur like agh!! ive done my irish oral and french one already and i think i did ok but i have my german one tomorrow!!i think ur right about nerves being what really gets in ur way!! i find them all hard but you dont do role plays in french .THank god!!xx
  • Emma
    hey i have my german oral tomorrow!!im shittin it tho.im gonna study today i think wat wud help is to get someone to be the examiner and tell them to ask you questions!! ive only done one role play so..... it wont be that hard and then its just general conversation!!good luck and i hope you do well!!
  • SAM
    I know this is kinda off topic but, if you want to get good at oral/aural try listening to German music and watchin German tv and cinema! Trust me it works
  • Sulli
    well my german teacher is a genuine twat and i actuall have learned stuff off dis site....... me nd my classmates are screwed.......like less dan a month 2 teach myself german, any suggestions??? I dont get d grammer, i dont think my oral was fantastic( i got a book of role plays which was out of date off my school) so any oone got advice or can practice magic??? a hot german girl who wants 2 tutor me?? no takers??
  • My fellow on Orkut shared this link and I'm not dissapointed that I came to your blog.
  • jessica
    this website is an actual joke
  • meme
    ah lads yis ar takin de piss, german is just as hard as ne odr oral..its nerves just as much as anytin like..also doing a projekt rather than the bildergeshichte makes life alot easier as de examiner generally wnt kno wht u are actually talkin about and if ur stook u can always make it up, u also ony av t tlk bou it for like 2mins r sumtin! huevr wrote that ''its piss compared to irish'' is obviously just good at german, some people have a natural flair for languages and especially if they got an A1..get a life not everybdy finds dese tings easy and i agree wit the above comment from seph, dis really is a waste of time...
  • Seph
    "actually it's piss compared to irish"











































































































    i got 50% in my irish oral and 53% in my german (mocks). I haven't studied irish in months, and for the german i prepared and said a LOT more. anyway i don't see even one piece of advice here that a teacher wouldn't tell you a hundred times coming up to the prüfung, so this is a waste of everyone's time really...


































































    "Submit Commnt" made by students alright...
  • also : therefore :P
    auch : also :D


    haha!
    ahh i need help.. my oral in like a week :(..

    any study tips people? :O
  • L0LL3RTR41N
    To Ciaran:

    In the half a sentence of German that you typed you managed to make a grammar mistake.

    Nice one
  • Shane Johnson
    Its not too hard, but its not easy either. I found the Irish easier than the German. But we all have our strenghts
  • john fitzsimons
    also ist es twat
  • 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 !!!!!
  • ash
    i jus done my leaving cert german aural today. it was s easy she basically asked me abouts family school hobbies nothin like conjuctions and word order
blog comments powered by Disqus

Social Links

facebook twitter rss

Subjects

Exam Papers

Tag Cloud

Polls

What type of exams do you prefer?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

The Apocalypse

  • End of Leaving Cert 2010:
    2 months, 7 days, 15 hours ago

Me no speak enlishe