How do you remember similar sounding or looking German words?
Answer
Find a similar sounding or looking reminder sentence.
Tips
German - English
(die) Ansicht - (the) opinion (answer me - give me your opinion, and I said it Ansicht)
Anforderung - requirement (And order a person on a rung lower to fulfil this requirement)
Aufgabe - task, subject of a sentence (out given or given out a task)
Aufgaben (tasks, object(s) of sentence)
(die) Breite - (the) breadth
einfach - easy (easy - did it once, one - ein is one - one minute and it's done, fulfilled)
English - German
breadth - (die) Breite (both words start BRE and end with a T/DTH
change - Wechsel (change money - WE Can Help SELl
(the) depth - (die) Tiefe (tiles deep in a swimming pool, t/d pth/f
instruction
opinion
(the) task - (die) Aufgabe
Now go back and check the words opinion and task in the headline of this post:
opinion - Ansicht
task - Aufgabe
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