The German language

Vielleicht doch in Texas?

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

Kleinvieh macht auch Mist.

Small /something/ power also poop?

small animals also poop I think

Sorry little m not big M - 'makes'.

My favorite word was always 'Eisdiele', not sure why. Typical grade school bs I guess.

Kruzitürken!

Was zum Kuckuck?

Dann gibt es Mort und Totschlag.

Was zum Kuckuck?

Fjandinn hafi það!

der Gabelstaplerführerschein

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)

^probably all bad habits (certainly in written french) but w/e

well German has slang too of course, you could also lean into a Dialekt

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

use "halt" in every sentence

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

re: past simple - what i mean is use present perfect instead, regardless of how counterintuitive it might seem

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"

ha, I remember I used to ask for the check by saying “Herr Ober, ich möchte bezahlen, bitte.“ My Turkish friend put me straight

I never use my (at best intermediate) German any more but I still sometimes end English sentences with “oder”

if something is good say <<das ist der Hammer>>

Somebody once told me it was a bit more idiomatic to say “ein wenig”as opposed to “ein bisschen.”

Klar

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

“Ciao“ works as well, these days.

And it’s “Wie geht es Ihnen,” not “einen.”

ganz peinlich, schatzi

thanks - trials of learning primarily via YouTube + pimsleur...

xp

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