― gentoo (gentoo), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
It's not exactly SO, for example the "e" is "Kaiser" is pronounced differently than in "Freund". It's easier than English though. I don't think there's a language in the world where every letter is pronounced the same way every time, though Finnish comes pretty close (with only major exception, the "ng" sound).
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
(speed limit)
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Spanish is pretty much like that. You change the sound of c and g depending on what vowel they're followed by, but that's about it.
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
brustwarzehandschuhekrankenhaus
lieblingsfachkunst
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
mandarin? (but i guess the characters are more like words than letters)
oh and schadenfreude is indeed a good one, and xpost doppelganger
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
What about ll? Or j or h in the beginning of the word? Though Spanish vowels are always pronounced the same, I think.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you'll find that werkelijk = Dutch and wirklich = German, so
JA WEG
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
(See, video games help you learn!)
― 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
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
geil
schornsteinfeger
sowieso
jeweilig
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
find the schlechteste those with hard to pronounce Rs (lehrern). also why is squirrel so hard in all languages
― ||||||||, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
genau is the best word
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 10 February 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
doch
― seandalai, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
Aztekenexpresszuggesellschaft― SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:06 (three years ago)
― SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:06 (three years ago)
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
quatsch
― seandalai, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
Ehrgeiz
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
„Schmetterling“ is underrated imo, the word means “little thing” (-ling) that “bats forcefully” (Schmetter-)
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
genau def a hall of famer
new one today which is nice: außergewöhnlich
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
just has a nice rhythm and balance to it, with a satisfying definitive ending
rein theoretisch
― seandalai, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
still enjoying this ish. favourite thing recently are conjunctions that throw the conjugated verb to the end so sentences become this odd parade of unmoored subjects objects times locations with a wee verb popping up at the end to stitch them all together
― ||||||||, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
like.... Du solltest ‚Gruß Gott‘ sagen wenn du in Österreich bist....... bist my man wyd all the way out there on your own
― ||||||||, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:23 (four 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 (one year 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 (eleven months ago) link
Phantombildzeichner
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:18 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link