I my humble opinion, although when spoken, the German language does not sound as beautiful as some other European languages such as French or Italian, it is one of the easiest European language to learn. After all, the English language came from the German language; the sentence structures in terms of nouns, verbs and adjectives are all very similar. So right there, you have a slight advantage over those who do not understand English to learn German easy.
Good basics are key
As the above sentence states, the key to learning German is good basics. If you are starting from scratch, then I suggest you pay a little bit of money for a good comprehensive online package. Yes, you can find all sorts of free resources online as well, but it is quite troublesome to organize all material from different websites. The money is well spent to have a nice little organized package all ready for you to learn. Nowadays, you get quite a bit with these packages, with interactive and interesting software, videos and audio material.
Once familiar with basics, rent some German movies
You don't even have to have the basics all down; in fact as soon as you have gone through a little bit of the online German learning package, hit the tube for some German speaking movies. Here's the little secret gem: rent the movies that have BOTH English and German subtitles. You will not only get the audio German exposure, but the visual confirmation of the spoken words as well. If only English subtitles German movies are available, that's ok too. Continue to go through the basics German language package together with watching the German films, the results will be twofold and the learning speed will increase tremendously.
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