Understanding German

For the sentence placement, it seems to be verb and then pronoun.

From what I had learned on Duolingo.

In July we eat fish

Im Juli essen wir Fisch

Note that nouns are always capitalized, like "Juli" and "Fisch"

Im - In

Juli - July

Essen - Eat

Wir - We

Fisch - Fish


As I had discussed in a separate post, many of the German words look and sound similar in English, that's why I feel we adopted a lot of German words and reformed them.

August - August
Sommer - Summer
Sonne - Sun


And a confusing sentence:

Im Sommer scheint die Sonne.
The Sun is shining in summer - the correct way.

But it looks like it could be said like

In summer shining the sun

Or

In the Summer the sun is shining
Im der Sommer die Sonner scheint - is how that might actually be said...

The summer sun is shining
In Summer shines the sun - is how it literally looks like.


If you're going to write out your sentences on your own, or attempt to write in this language, you most definitely should understand word placement. Because it's not the same in every language at all.