The German language

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.

Dingsbums (thingummybob)

Genau (popular one!)

Falls man in einem Buch so ein Wort drük-
ken will, muss man die Zeilenenden beobachten.

Or is that obsolete now?

Strumpfhosen

Spachtelmasse

My favourite poetic object name in German is Gluebirne, the word for lightbulb which literally translates as glowing pear.

Christ my German is terrible despite living in a German speaking country for 6 years.....

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).

Ich habe durchfall

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!

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!

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.

I get really obsessive about things like this for short periods of time. I've been reading my german book on the subway and in the bathroom every chance I get, and I use the program after my wife goes to bed.

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.

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