Frohe Weihnachten!
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
wot's german for wobs
― j., Tuesday, 25 December 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
It's pronounced 'vaubz'.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
ach, ein lehnwort!
― j., Tuesday, 25 December 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Wie so oft.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Fast immer, glaube ich
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
Redewendung des Tages: Pi mal Daumen.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Oder besser gesagt:Gott sei Dank, es ist Pi-Tag!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
Pi-Tag ist 22/7.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 14 March 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
warum?
das ist pi-annaeherungstag
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Thursday, 14 March 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
3.14 ist kein Datum in der deutsche Schreibweise.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 15 March 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
Vielleicht doch in Texas?
― seandalai, Friday, 15 March 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
wikipedia:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-Tag
Zum anderen wird ein Pi-Annäherungstag (Pi Approximation Day) am 22. Juli gefeiert, mit dem die näherungsweise Darstellung von π durch Archimedes als 22/7 ≈ 3,14 geehrt werden soll.
pi ist 3,14
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Friday, 15 March 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
Kleinvieh macht auch Mist.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
Small /something/ power also poop?
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
small animals also poop I think
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
Sorry little m not big M - 'makes'.
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
My favorite word was always 'Eisdiele', not sure why. Typical grade school bs I guess.
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
Kruzitürken!
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
Was zum Kuckuck?
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
Dann gibt es Mort und Totschlag.
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 19 December 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
Fjandinn hafi það!
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 December 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
der Gabelstaplerführerschein
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 December 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
anyone have any good tips/cheats to look our for (and use) for more native-sounding vernacular spoken german?
e.g. in french class you'll learn to use 'ne... pas' to negate a verb but often in spoken french they'll just drop the ne completely. similarly, privileging use of 'on' over 'nous'; adding 'quoi' for emphasis; running words together ('tu as dansé hier soir' becomes 't'as dansé hier soir' etc). that's before you get to even slang words (les mecs; BCBG; bouffer; etc)
― ||||||||, Saturday, 11 January 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
^probably all bad habits (certainly in written french) but w/e
― ||||||||, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
well German has slang too of course, you could also lean into a Dialekt
― VOTE! In the 2019 EOY Poll (seandalai), Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
but even after living in Germany for a year my lecturers told me I spoke like a book so I'm probably not going to be that helpful
― VOTE! In the 2019 EOY Poll (seandalai), Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
use "halt" in every sentence
― groovemaaan, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
use "ne?" at the end of a sentence to mean "which i'm sure we all agree on?", use "oder?" to mean "don't you think so?" (slightly less rhetorical), never use past simple unless you want to sound like the finanzamt or a 19th century nursery rhyme. "na?" is "sup?", use "zwo" instead of "zwei" (espec on telephone) "geil" for "wicked"/"awesome" (although that is kinda teenage) i'm sure further tips will occur to me later
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 11 January 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
re: past simple - what i mean is use present perfect instead, regardless of how counterintuitive it might seem
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 11 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
also, folks rarely say in a cafe, bakery "ich möchte.../ ich hätte gerne...", preferring "noun/ ein noun bitte" or "krieg ich noun" oder "ich nehme noun"
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 11 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
ha, I remember I used to ask for the check by saying “Herr Ober, ich möchte bezahlen, bitte.“ My Turkish friend put me straight
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 January 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
I never use my (at best intermediate) German any more but I still sometimes end English sentences with “oder”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:05 (four years ago) link
if something is good say <<das ist der Hammer>>
― VOTE! In the 2019 EOY Poll (seandalai), Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Somebody once told me it was a bit more idiomatic to say “ein wenig”as opposed to “ein bisschen.”
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
Klar
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 13 January 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
these are all great thanks. so far some others I have learned as I start the journey from A0 - just say “wie geht’s” not “wie geht es einen/dir”; just say “wiedersehn” or even tschüss
― ||||||||, Monday, 13 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
“Ciao“ works as well, these days.And it’s “Wie geht es Ihnen,” not “einen.”
― oder doch?, Monday, 13 January 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
ganz peinlich, schatzi
― Death to (NickB), Monday, 13 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
thanks - trials of learning primarily via YouTube + pimsleur...
xp
― ||||||||, Monday, 13 January 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6Czgl1acU
― Disco Cladistic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:06 (four years ago) link
makes it a whole lot easier learning a language when you live with a fluent speaker you can bounce questions off and speak with
― ||||||||, Sunday, 19 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
This is not a great idea unless you are benchmarking a specific region and maybe even subculture within the region. The dangers of sounding like late 90s Björk talking are great.
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 19 January 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
the guy in pimsleur is a shagger
― ||||||||, Monday, 20 January 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
can you to me that please on the map to show?
yoga ass language
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
nico (from nico's weg) has a preternatural ability for picking up the german language
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
here's my approach so far:
0. have set some language priorities for first three months, and have a 12 month goal1. listen to 1 episode of pimsleur in the morning first thing, while walking to work (these are pretty slow with limited vocabulary but find them good for tuning your ear to stuff)2. jot down any new vocabulary in notes while walking (transfer into anki later)3. if it's raining, listen to coffee break german on the bus instead4. do some self talk while in e.g. shower, on bike etc5. ask partner questions (using german only, to extent possible... not always possible obv) 6. do occassional anki session (max 35 cards per day) when have some downtime at night7. look up things when (if) I think of them8. maintain a diary of words, sentences I've made up, and things I've done during the day etc (this is really basic but just about getting me thinking/narrating in the language)
basically a mix of structured learning and organic (as-and-when things come to me) learning. only scribbling this down for my posterity and in case it helps anyone else
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
that all sounds like... a lot, but most important thing for me is trying to at least touch the language every day. some days I will do a couple of hours of learning (exhausting), others it will only be the pimsleur. and I don't do the pimsleur on the weekends, so the learning activity is a little lighter then (mostly just annoying partner w/questions)
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
Was ist dein deutsches Llieblingswort ?
― ||||||||, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link