The German language

Überrascht bin ich irgendwie nicht.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Wankbahn_poster.jpg

Aw - is that as in Garmish Partenkirchen? It's so beautiful there. That's where my grandmother met my grandfather and my dad spent the early years of his life in a town called Grainau. I've been there a couple times and it's just so lovely.

I understood what you said Caek! I mean it's pretty obv even for someone without any knowledge of German but being able to read little bits just makes me wish I knew more. Fuck it. I'm gonna do an online course or something.

also lol wank

it is a bavarian holiday tomorrow so i am going to wank (lol)

gute Fahrt zu Wank

change of plan. because of the weather i am not going to wank tomorrow.

sorry for lost wank opportunity

schade, kein Wank für dich!

http://survex.com/~olly/wank/wankhaus.jpg

how very considerate of them ... an entire house where you can Wank!

We have a terrapin, or in USian English a freshwater turtle. Which is in German eine Sumpfschildkröte, or a swamp-shield-toad. Turtles are Schildkröte, shield-toads.

And apparently the German for "peanuts" as in "to work for peanuts" or "that costs peanuts" is ein paar Kröten, "a couple of toads".

i am starting an intensive course next week! 8 weeks, 4 evenings per week. i aced (i.e. got lucky with the questions) on the entrance test and have been placed at B1/B2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages), which is going to last all of 2 days i predict.

this course is high intensity in ten cities

i made use of that great link about doch, zwar etc. (http://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/gr/mis_04.html) to do my Hausaufgabe last night

e, it finishes after the shops shut, so i am going to look for your gummis at the weekend

p.s. omg http://www.dict.cc/?s=m%C3%B6pse

"babylons (coll)"!

"charlies"???

spicy ginger babylons!

good luck with your intensive course, it sounds exciting and terrifying

halt die ohren steif.

ha, ein nützlicher Ausdruck

ich fuhle mich wie ich trinke von einem Feuerwehrschlauch

Stop feeling yourself like that.

they love them some reflexive words

so is your plan to take one of Goethe Institute language proficiency exams?

i don't think so. some of the people in my class are building up to that i think. and there is a section at the end of our coursebook explaining how zertifikat deutsch works. so maybe? i guess i will find out what i've signed up for in 8 weeks?!

do you know when the möpse gummis were released e? couldn't find them in my local (admittedly quite small) supermarkt.

i just wrote an essay about sport in britain ... in german

it is incredibly boring, but i use the genitive case, a relative pronoun, and konjunktiv ii

Es ist noch kein Meister vom Himmel gefallen

haha "Use Konjunktiv II" was a permanent fixture on my German exam checklist at school

konjunktiv ii würd ich die pfoten von lassen. especially the missingsche version displayed in the last sentence, which will get you derben respekt irl, but in tests, not so much.

wait, that was konjunktiv i. hätt ich besser nichts gesagt.

haha, yeah konjunctiv i is a battle for another day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB4TqRTWxgE

this course is amazing. i am giving a 5 minute talk about the curiosity rover in class tomorrow

not sure how grammatical i was, and pretty sure i invented some words, but i seemed to get my point across

Yay!

Toll!

das Sonnensystem

i refereed to mars curiosity as mars neugir throughout, but nobody laughed

ausgezeichnet

can anybody point me to a half decent resource on "die Fälle" which isn't just tables & metalanguage, and would hopefully be example sentences of things people actually say in pos, neg & Q sentences?

cough http://www.sendspace.com/file/hoyxrb

cough cough http://www.sendspace.com/file/6vxew5

Umgebung = best German word?

pp33-50 in the first one

ctrl-f nom, acc, dat, gen in the second one

Ich habe eine meerschweinschen in die umgebung gegessen

I was disappointed when I realised you pronounce it umGEbung not UMgebung

thanks caek - that looks to make more sense than most!

the schaum examples are particularly good, i think

and don't worry about genitive until you know you need to