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― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I agree with Ken that the word Handschuh is a total classic.
Can we hear it for German syntax, please? e.g. Today have I heard that a man who for Germany football played has has in England to come decided.
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, a double l means a different sound to single l, and same with double r. and j and h are the same sound at the beginning of a word as they are within it - h is never pronounced, anyway.
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
KIPPIS - cheers!Hei - hallo!Moi moi - bye bye!KRAPULA - HANGOVER!
Hooray!
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Stan oughta be ashamed of himself. I ain't translating THAT.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― stop moving. (cis), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― nazi bikini (harbl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
No, the "e" in "freund" is part of the vowel combination "eu", which is always pronounced the same say.
Eliminating the Sz (sorry, I don't know the html code for it), C/D?
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Hääyöaie!
Every teach-yrself-Finnish tape I've ever listened to has had two speakers, one of whom observes the difference between a and ä described in the text of the book and one of whom either says them the same or does the umlaut a bit German. HATE. Plus not aspirating my consonants = no chance, and making the difference between single and doubled letters = only if I speak at three words per minute.
Then I listen to Finnish music and they seem to pronounce a and ä about the same, but it's ok for them because they are on Trendy Fonal Records. Even the ones who aren't.
Do real Germans say glückschmerz? That is a good word. I need to learn German.
― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
mandarin?
Not really! A single character can be pronounced with different inflections depending on the inflection of the character immediately following it.
― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― stop moving. (cis), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― patita (patita), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Dingsbums (thingummybob)
Genau (popular one!)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― That Feymous Biting Guy (xave), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― de latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Falls man in einem Buch so ein Wort drük-ken will, muss man die Zeilenenden beobachten.
Or is that obsolete now?
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Strumpfhosen
Spachtelmasse
My favourite poetic object name in German is Gluebirne, the word for lightbulb which literally translates as glowing pear.
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Christ my German is terrible despite living in a German speaking country for 6 years.....
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Ich lerne deutsch.http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,9572,00.html
Dieser kurs ist gut!
Mein lieblingswort ist "lieblingswort."
(I can't say much else -- it's only my third day).
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Ich habe durchfall
― snoball, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
so I'm basically challenging myself to learn as much German as possible in the three weeks before my trip. I will try to form some sentences from memory. Forgive my spelling and grammar.
Ich heiße Josh. Ich bin neunundswanzig jahre alt. Ich wohne in Brooklyn. Ich bin verheiratet, aber Ich habe keinen kinder. Englisch ist meine muttersprache. Sprechen sie englisch?
Das ist mein hund. Es heißen Struppi.
Heute ist Mittwoch. Morgen ist Donnerstag. Gestern war Dienstag.
Ich esse fleisch und bohnen. Ist es frisch? Ach, ja!
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
OK your dog's name is adorable.
Spelling grammar won't matter much as a tourist and if doing this well after only 4 days is a pretty good sign!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not really my dog's name. It's the name of the dog in the german program I'm using, but I want to get a terrier and name it that.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
|||||||| ist ein Threadnichtaufdemlaufendengehaltenhabender.I don’t like the guy who coined the phrase, but “Lockerungsdrängler” is a classic German compound imo.
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
still plugging away doing a little everyday - less structured since we entered lockdown, mostly because my days are less structured and if I exercise I tend to do it w/my partner so doing podcast course would be considering kinda..... antisocial
been slacking on the speaking lately tho - need to up that def
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link
been a little difficult to keep the motivation too when there's no potential for a visit to germany on the horizon at least in the short- to medium-term. always found w french that visting france gave my language skills a little turbo boost over any plateaus and so was looking forward to the same from visits to germany this year but........ the rona
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
yeah I've had that problem too. I keep meaning to work on my German because I might possibly want to move to Germany when this is over, but that seems very far off and hard to imagine.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
I just saw this anglicised map of Germany and now I can't stop thinking about it pic.twitter.com/nbpAwPXy13— Marcel Dirsus (@marceldirsus) July 27, 2020
Slot Newswanston!
― L. Prague de Scamp (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 27 July 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure most of those places exist in England.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 27 July 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Son ellos https://t.co/CPTu3mdG06 pic.twitter.com/k3UmzhQBOh— common white girl (@PlanetaTamara) June 27, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 10:25 (eleven months ago) link
Don't think there's a proper Germany thread bar this one. Making my way through this rn.
https://jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 09:37 (ten months ago) link
Phantombildzeichner
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:18 (seven months ago) link
Person who sketches identikit portraits (Phantombilder)
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:20 (seven months ago) link