The German language

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).

(speed limit)

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.

brustwarze
handschuhe
krankenhaus

lieblingsfach
kunst

mandarin? (but i guess the characters are more like words than letters)

oh and schadenfreude is indeed a good one, and xpost doppelganger

What about ll? Or j or h in the beginning of the word? Though Spanish vowels are always pronounced the same, I think.

I think you'll find that werkelijk = Dutch and wirklich = German, so

JA WEG

(See, video games help you learn!)

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.

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.

KIPPIS - cheers!
Hei - hallo!
Moi moi - bye bye!
KRAPULA - HANGOVER!

Hooray!

Stan oughta be ashamed of himself. I ain't translating THAT.

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?

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.

mandarin?

Not really! A single character can be pronounced with different inflections depending on the inflection of the character immediately following it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6Czgl1acU

makes it a whole lot easier learning a language when you live with a fluent speaker you can bounce questions off and speak with

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.

the guy in pimsleur is a shagger

can you to me that please on the map to show?

yoga ass language

nico (from nico's weg) has a preternatural ability for picking up the german language

here's my approach so far:

0. have set some language priorities for first three months, and have a 12 month goal
1. 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 instead
4. do some self talk while in e.g. shower, on bike etc
5. 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 night
7. look up things when (if) I think of them
8. 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

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)

Was ist dein deutsches Llieblingswort ?

geil

schornsteinfeger

sowieso

jeweilig

find the schlechteste those with hard to pronounce Rs (lehrern). also why is squirrel so hard in all languages

genau is the best word

doch

Aztekenexpresszuggesellschaft

― SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:06 (three years ago)

quatsch

Ehrgeiz

„Schmetterling“ is underrated imo, the word means “little thing” (-ling) that “bats forcefully” (Schmetter-)

genau def a hall of famer

new one today which is nice: außergewöhnlich

just has a nice rhythm and balance to it, with a satisfying definitive ending

rein theoretisch

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

like.... Du solltest ‚Gruß Gott‘ sagen wenn du in Österreich bist....... bist my man wyd all the way out there on your own

|||||||| ist ein Threadnichtaufdemlaufendengehaltenhabender.

I don’t like the guy who coined the phrase, but “Lockerungsdrängler” is a classic German compound imo.

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

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

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.

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!

Pretty sure most of those places exist in England.

Son ellos https://t.co/CPTu3mdG06 pic.twitter.com/k3UmzhQBOh

— common white girl (@PlanetaTamara) June 27, 2022

Don't think there's a proper Germany thread bar this one. Making my way through this rn.

https://jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2

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