Thanks for clarifying that, I'll probably never get the chance to speak the language out loud (too poor to travel to any country but Canada, well passports cost money too so too poor to travel period), but I want to be able to read and write in it, but I do listen to music in the language so I want to make sure I'm hearing the right word (though that problem can be solved with looking up the lyrics). Duolingo is okay for helping me hear how words are pronounced, but the accents the robots speak with aren't German accents, so I rely on songs to help me hear how words are supposed to be pronounced, and any videos I can find that have English subtitles. The other night I was listening to a song called "Siamesische Einsamkeit", and now I can pronounce " einsamkeit" okay but "Siamesische" I pronounce like the English "Siamese", it's not the first time I've heard the song either so I should get it by now, that is just an example of how I can mispronounce words. Though I do mispronounce words in English too and that is my native language. I am getting a little better at pronouncing words even if I've never seen them before or heard them pronounced out loud so that's a plus.

The words that sound the same but are spelled.differently will get me though, I found a couple more, "das" and "dass", "ist" and "isst", and I think "mir" and "mehr" (though I am probably wrong on that and Duolingo pronounced "mehr" wrong), same with "dir" and "der" (though again Duolingo could be pronouncing "der" wrong, think I heard it prounced slightly differently in a song). So learning this is fun until I start crying over pronounciation, grammar, and vocabulary.