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First notebook entry: Introducing myself
Hallo Leute,
Ich bin lerne Deutsch weil ich mochte maine Blog-Beitrage in Deutsch zu Veroffentlichen...
Ich lerne Deutsch, weil ich meine Blog-Beitraege auf Deutsch veroeffentlichen moechte.
(Sorry, hopelessly copied from Google Translate and typed using my English keyboard :) ).
Google Translate is a great tool to understand something written in a foreign language, but don't use it to learn German this way. The translations are often silly and full of mistakes.
Basic grammar: German has no continous form, so "I am learning German" is expressed as "I learn German" = "Ich lerne Deutsch". Google doesn't get that, and tries to translate the continous form literally: "I am learning" -> "Ich bin lerne", which is complete nonsense.
In German, a subclause starting with "because" = "weil" needs a different word order (verb at the end). Again, Google doesn't get it. And so on, and so on.
BTW, if you don't have a German keyboard, the official writing rules are ä = ae, ö = oe, ü = ue and ß = ss. I've used these rules in the correction above.
What are you using to learn German, if I may ask?
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