When I first moved to Germany I started making lists of words that I heard but didn't know but came up enough times that I thought that I should know. When I was watching TV for the first I quickly ended up with a page of A4 covered in words that I had looked up and I thought that it would take ages for me to learn it. But very soon I was at a stage when I look back on that list and realise that it was all very basic German.
This was particularly useful to German bureaucracy which unfortunately you will have to deal with as soon as you move to Germany.. Just accept from the outset that it will take a long time to read each letter and understand what it is saying. But on the plus side, they use a lot of the same words each time, often strung together to make long frightening words. Reading official German is a very important skill but you will quickly start to recognise a lot of the words that they use if you persevere with what seems very daunting at first.
This was particularly useful to German bureaucracy which unfortunately you will have to deal with as soon as you move to Germany.. Just accept from the outset that it will take a long time to read each letter and understand what it is saying. But on the plus side, they use a lot of the same words each time, often strung together to make long frightening words. Reading official German is a very important skill but you will quickly start to recognise a lot of the words that they use if you persevere with what seems very daunting at first.
