Some good advice: First, German is composed of a lot of idioms, so be prepared to learn a lot of figures of speech to say a lot of common things. Second, German has a lot of conjugation (not as much as spanish) but like Spanish also has male and female nouns. German even has neuter nouns. The gender of the noun can effect other words in the sentence, too. For instance, "die Sonne" means "the Sun" and "der Mond" means "the Moon." Notice how the word "the" changes to "die" for the feminine noun "Sonne" and the same word "the" changes to "der" with the masculine noun Mund. With a neuter noun, like "das Auto" which means "the car", you use "das" for "the." Third, you want a really good foundation for German. To speak it correctly you MUST know all the parts of speech because of how the word "ein" conjugates based on when it's used. (it has 6 different variations) German has many prepositions that are used in different contexts to mean different things and also has multiple words that mean the same thing. Here's some examples: "Denn" and "weil" both mean "because" The word "aber" can mean "but", "however", or "really" based on the context.

Fourth, (most importantly) you must learn the accent and rhythm of Speaking German. Including very much is how letters are pronounced. Here's some hints. W sounds like V V sounds like F At the end of a word, D sounds like T At the end of a word, G sounds like K CH makes two sounds (how they sound depends on who you talk to) but the way I hear most is either a lighter SH sound with the teeth farther apart as in the word "ich" and the second sound is a deep throat sound like in the word "doch." A good word to practice this deep throat sound is with "nechste" which means "next" Try to say "next" but bring the X sound deeper into your throat using your saliva. Other languages use this sound such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, and Arabic. The special ¨ umlaut accent mark is pretty easy, you pull your lips tighter together and raise the pitch just a tiny bit when a letter has an umlaut on it. Like the word "über" which sounds like "oo-ber." I hope this is helpful!

Hi Murfy, you can start at Italki. Learn German using your own language. http://www.italki.com/knowledge/learn-German-Chinese.htm

Hello Murfy, 我可以帮助你学习德语，你也可以帮助我学习中文吗？：）

Guten Tag Murfy (Ni hao Murfy), to get a first impression of the german language and the german pronuncation you could listen to german music songs from "Marius Müller Westernhagen". (easy text) In the internet on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3zSm8pM78&feature=PlayList&p=928CEB57BF39C56D&index=0&playnext=1 is a free language beginner course (english/german) Hope you´ll enjoy it. Kathrin