The German language

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

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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.

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Phantombildzeichner

Person who sketches identikit portraits (Phantombilder)