The German language

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

if you're british (this doesn't work for american english), the classic example is writing a letter:

"i write a letter"

i = subject, i.e. nominative

a letter = direct object, i.e. accusative

now i add the recipient of the letter:

"i write a letter to my friend"

"my friend" = indirect object, i.e. dative

two groups of words i am struggling with at the momen

vorschlagen - suggest
vermuten - assume
verinbaren - stipulate

die Ausrede - excuse, pretext
die Ausnahme - exception
ausreden - dissuade
angeben - declare
der Angeber - showoff
abreden - stipulate

also

eigen - own (e.g. at your own risk)
einzig - only (e.g. the only people)
einig - a few

vereinbaren, verabreden. es herrscht unmut im klassenzimmer.

caek, where are those definitions from? Langenscheidt (emphasis on the last syllable)? They are not good, and very oversimplified. Generally speaking, German-English dictionaries where Germans have the final editorial say SUCK -- German has a much smaller usable vocabulary set than English, and as a result, they present the English words as if they were simple direct cognates much more often than is usable in reality. German words do a lot of heavy lifting, and most of the verbs you listed have a lot of different meanings, including ones more closely related to the noun forms.

Basically, I think you're better off with a German learner's dictionary or school dictionary than any given German-English dictionary once you've got a year or two under your belt.

mittwoch

my favorite german sentence

ich habe ein audi

not sure about the conjugations in that one, i did manage four years but it was half a lifetime ago

The conjugation is correct. The pronunciation is "eech bean ayn oarschloch."

du bist ein affe

i think mostly get what those words mean. the one-word definitions there are my own, for this thread. but yeah i should probably graduate to a D-D dictionary.

http://megacycles.tumblr.com/post/13800349009/schones-foto