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Duolingo

Looks good for learning grammar, but can you practise speaking on it?

Read more books on German and watch movies and podcasts. Speaking practice is just a matter of psicology . You can speak ( and must speak) with a zero level on any language

Achtung means attention.

Ack Tongue means the person you just deep kissed has cigarette breath.

How's he gonna teach Duolingo chess ?

In all seriousness, coming from a self-taught Francophone, Duolingo will help -- and yes it does allow you to practice speaking, listening, and writing -- but it is most important to immerse yourself in the media of the native-speakers. I have 6 Asterix comics on my bookshelf that helped me learn how to speak like a casual native speaker (wouldn't recommend it to beginners  because in France the language they use in comics is more difficult than what you might find in a newspaper, for example, but that may not apply to German). Listen to German radio stations, read German books, watch German television shows. If you want to take it a step further, do the same with Austrian, Swiss, etc. content to get yourself used to an even wider array of cultural media. Watching, listening, and reading what a native speaker would was by far the most helpful part of my learning. 

I don't know anything about German (other than it is similar to my native language) but that is what most helped me learn my language so I hope it will help you too !

You can join some german-speaking groups here- on Chesscom . And your suggestion in that groups will get more useful answers.

Duolingo is pretty good

Thanks for the advice

I will have to investigate this

Thanks for this sound advice, I will try these ideas. I could learn something from endgame magic by Karsten mueller

What club in particular would you recommend?

Oui, but I don't spreken no Español.

If you want to learn italian, write me!

It is difficult for me. Ich sprehe niht Deutsch

You can ask for example) german speaking player/ DJ Haubi https://www.chess.com/member/dj_haubi

He is admin in some clubs and active player and has many friends

*Ich lerne Deutch* in Duolingo and it's pretty cool

Es ist sehr leichter Deutsch zu sprechen als Schach zu lernen.

And I left high school in 1978 and can still pull this out of a hat, while the Sicilian still gives me fits.

I do not think so. Correct is: Es ist sehr viel leichter Deutsch zu sprechen als Schach zu lernen.

But of course it depends on the level of chess.