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  • Reasons for my interest, in order of precedence.

    • I spend three weeks a year in German speaking countries for skiing, climbing, hiking and football. It'd be nice to have basic conversational German nailed.
    • I have lots of German speaking business contacts. If I discover that I enjoy learning the basics I'd like to spend the next few years developing my skills so I'd maybe be able to take advantage of various opportunities I may have with German speaking organisations.
    • It is likely I will be living in a German speaking part of Switzerland for a period in a few years time.

    I like the suggestion of doing a GCSE course to start with.

  • That sounds like a really good idea then. If you like football there's obviously tonnes of German resources for that online. Once you have some confidence in conversations then it's obviously easier to pick up.

    My father in law did a French GCSE then A-level in the evenings and he still goes to conversational classes.

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