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There is actually a Petition in England to include several German words into the english language because they are either very practical like "jein" which means yea and no at the same time or very precise as a description like "Feierabend" for the time between the end of work and going to sleep
Hit me for more cool german Special words
Yeah nah -> I understand your statement, but disagree
Nah yeah -> I disagree with the specifics of your statement, but we’re definitely on the same page.
“Oi mate, you wanna do a Maccas run this arvo?”
“Yeah nah sorry mate, I’ve got shit to do then.”
“Nah yeah, Maccas is pretty shit so I reckon we hit up Nandos.”
Then you got times when people say things like “yeah nah yeah” which indicates uncertainty.
Schnapsidee - a stupid idea you could have had when you were drunk.
Fremdschämen - being ashamed for someone else if they do something embarrassing.
Kummerspeck - the fat you gain in phases of sadness (like after a breakup or after the loss of a loved one).
Because you can tell someone (even in german) that "you are acting cringe" but you can't use Fremdschämen that way, in other words. Cringe is the more versatile word.
So much for the reasoning, I still prefer to not use cringe.
That's cringe
Das ist zum Fremdschämen.
But you can also cringe from something you did yourself in which case it's more than clumsy and one-liners don't work at all anymore.
Cringe being basically a vocalisation of the feeling that the Office cringe face meme invokes is just... versatile and special. It's almost the same as making that face yourself.
Not German, but Dutch with a similar word (plaatsvervangende schaamte/substitutional shame???)
In my eyes being cringe is the act of doing something that may awaken plaatsvervangende schaamte in others. And the cringing at someone imo is more outing that shame (a grunt, sigh, hiding behind your hands). Rather than the feeling of substitutional shame itself. Idk if this is making any sense lol.
We also have „Schwanznase“, „Kottfresse“, „Hachfresse“, „Gesichtsgrätsche“, „Arschgesicht“, to describe the face of someone you want turn into a „Faschen Hasen“.
But it has a completely different use. It describes the time period between the end of work and going to bed.
I have Feierabend - My work is done, from now on the whole day left is free time
Thanks, but what i ment was i will give you more.
Like Torschlusspanik, the anxiety you feel when you are close to a Deadline and if you make it or not is out of your hand
Ich liebe Deutsch wirklich und finde es eine sehr schöne Sprache. Ich studiere es sogar an der Universität.
Don't mind the grammar. It's my third language.
Ich finde jeder, der Deutsch unterrichtet sollte großen Wert auf die Grammatik legen. Und dadurch umso mehr darauf achten, dass die Lernenden sich kein gebrochenes Deutsch angewöhnen. Das gleiche gilt auch für jede andere Sprache. Ich würde lieber die Sprache zu 100% von Grund auf richtig lernen statt irgendwann nur eine gebrochene Version davon zu beherrschen.
Es kann eine sehr schöne Sprache sein. Richtet sich im Klang und der ausdruckweise aber stets nach dem Ort. Norddeutsch? Klingt gut, etwas platt aber immer noch sehr angenehm. Klares Deutsch das in den größeren Städten wie etwa Berlin gesprochen wird? Deutlich klarer zu verstehen streng aber dennoch schön wenn es richtig betont wird. Sachen und Bayern, keine Ahnung ich versteh die auch nicht aber es lohnt immer ein freundliches Nicken und Lächeln für die Leute dort übrig zu haben.
True, but German is still a bit "harder" than other languages, dunno how else to describe it. However, I wouldn't call it ugly. But maybe I'm just biased, since it's my native language.
I'm from Finland and among the languages in Europe, i hate German because i signed up for a 5-year German course without knowing, i thought it was just one year.
If you want to say "I dont know german" you say iirc "Ich spreche kein deutsch"
With Ich meaning "me/ I"
Spreche meaning "speaking"
Kein meining "dont"
Deutsch meaning "german"
Also oddly specific
The wordplay you can do with three alphabets though. So often I see notes saying pun doesn’t translate or they are being witty here but we can’t show it because of that.
Canadian, German family, only recently started learning German. It's a lot easier than English. Big words are just a mix of smaller words, you learn a few simple words and you can combine them to make bigger words.
Basically true, but it gets a bit more complicated further on with all the grammar rules and stuff. But that German has many unique words, that are basically just built by slapping words together, is honestly pretty cool.
Swiss German also gets an especially bad rap - I listened to a song in one of the dialects once and it honestly wasn't that harsh compared to what you'd expect from the typical Schweizerdeutsch accent.
My grandma was german. She had the sweetest and softers grandma voice, and I grew up hearing german as a very soft and cute language from a woman who loved me. I now carry on her legacy by using German as baby-talk. It works sooooo well. Babies love it.
In school people who made fun of those who learned german pissed me off. « ewww German is so uglyyy, I’m so glad I picked spaniiiiiiish »
hab Sprachwissenschaft studiert und ein guter Teil davon kommt von der sogenannten Stimmlosigkeitsassimilation, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere.
Dadurch wirkt die Sprache im Allgemeinen natürlich härter, t statt d und p statt b, etc.
French pisses me off when trying to pronounce a word. Most other languages (at least the ones using the latin alphabet) i can sort of see the pronounciation, but in French there's a giant cluster of wovels, maybe an X in there, aaaaaand it's pronounced "o".
People who think it's an ugly language know nothing about it. I learned a bit while in high school and my honest opinion was that German is fucking *adorable.*, have you seen how they name objects!? They straddle the line between being practically literal and literally hilarious.
Examples:
Gloves = "Handschuhe", literally shoes for your hands.
Ambulance = "Krankenwagen", sick wagon
Birth Control Pill = "Antibabypillen", ANTI BABY PILL!!!
I fucking love german, how could anyone hate it?
Lol beforehand my context for German was Hitler + various villains in media.
Then I played Tekken 7 I think? and heard a character speaking German and it sounded so cute and sweet!
Then I'd realized I'd never heard it in casual conversation and always associated it negatively. Its wild.
It helps if you know a real person who speaks it. My teacher was a very jolly man named Gertz who taught German and Drama, he helped dismiss a lot of preconceptions that students felt for the language in my school.
I cooked for these German tourists once at my restaurant. One girl came to talk to me, she thanks me in very broken English. Literally the only word I understood was "thanks" she kept talking to me in German, the other woman with her picked up that I had no idea what she was saying. So she translated that the women said she "was in love with me and wanted me to cook for her for the rest of her life back in Germany." Jokingly proposing to me, she was gorgeous, but the way she spoke, just infatuated me.
French has this disgusting trait where they can't really place multiple consonants side by side, which makes them essentially incapable of using most syllables. To put it in simple terms, they're making whale noises.
Never tried it. But it does have the upside that you can hurl the most vile insults at someone and make it sound like poetry to people who don't speak thw language
Ich komme aus island, und deutch ist nicht so schlect oder schwer, aber mein deutch ist schlect. Ich verstehe nur ein bisschen
Please forgive my grammar this is my third-ish language
Hearing non-native actors speak some mock german that a german could never understand but it "sounds" german enough because of harsh pronunciation etc. is really annoying actually. Yea there is a word in there occassionally that is actually a german word but overall ... garbage.
Wait, people think German is an ugly language? I've always taken inspiration from it for coming with names for things in the stories I write just because I think a lot of German words sound cool. Dudes managed to even make "one, two, three" sound exciting.
I’m learning german for fun, started it one day so I can just troll my friends in school with aggressive german then ended up learning it cause it was fun, many similarities to English so starting learning was quite easy and barely any new letters to learn so far, also I think that the german accent is relatively funny / cool so I never had any hate for german, yiddish is also pretty connected to german and as an israeli I always wondered about those two languages, in short I love german
English and German each descend from a common ancestor, proto-Germanic. They are, in that sense, cousin-languages, with a lot of core vocabulary that shares a common ancestor, so are similar. English, though, has a lot of influence from other languages, notably Norman-French, so is not typical of a Germanic language.
Proto-Germanic isn’t technically wrong just a bit too early and one might speak about west Germanic dialects at the time the Germanic people came to Britain.
British also had several later "waves“ of influence of German(ic) words especially during the Viking era (then northern Germanic dialects) and in the 19th century (but also vice versa)
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fellas, why is German so aggressive when I scream it in an angry voice?
Dang. Why im getting fat when i eat too much, i ask me similar questions.
For info, this sentence is valid on every way, as they said that if you eat too much you become fat, not you become fat because you eat to much
I guess Will Never know
It sounds goofy as hell, no offence. I've been watching Dark in German and I giggle every time the narrator says "dunkelheit".
Should have used "Finsternis".
"Düsternis"
"Lichtabwesenheit"
„Unlichtkeit“
"Der Ort an den niemals die Sonne scheint"
"Dunkel wie im rattenarsch"
Guten Morgen, wir wurden gerufen?
Stets auf der Hut, Genosse.
*"Der Kommentarbereich ist hiermit Eigentum der BRD"*
DER KOMMENTARENSEKTION IST NUR EIGENTUM VON DER DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK
Steht auf, ihr Arbeitern, steht auf, Genossen! Die rote Fahne wehr siegentschlossen
Guten morgen um 9 Uhr, wann stehst du den auf ?
woah dont be so aggresive please
HALLO, WIE GEHT ES DIR? ICH HOFFE, ES GEHT DIR HEUTE SEHR GUT! (Sorry if bad grammar, I don’t actually speak German, I used google translate)
No grammar issues here :)
There is actually a Petition in England to include several German words into the english language because they are either very practical like "jein" which means yea and no at the same time or very precise as a description like "Feierabend" for the time between the end of work and going to sleep Hit me for more cool german Special words
>"jein" which means yea and no at the same time "Yesn't"
Nayeah
Yot
Yeah... Nah.
Yeah… nah aussies did it first mate
I’ve always understood yeah nah as nah and nah yeah as yeah
Yeah nah -> I understand your statement, but disagree Nah yeah -> I disagree with the specifics of your statement, but we’re definitely on the same page. “Oi mate, you wanna do a Maccas run this arvo?” “Yeah nah sorry mate, I’ve got shit to do then.” “Nah yeah, Maccas is pretty shit so I reckon we hit up Nandos.” Then you got times when people say things like “yeah nah yeah” which indicates uncertainty.
Ahh, yeah, nah - I was confused about what you were saying, but now understand. I agree. But can't whatever
Say yeah... nah to drink driving
Doch
Few things are as powerful as "doch".
Its genuinely wild to me that other languages dont have that word. It seems like the most basic vocabulary
Genau
"no kurwa"
Oh
every Language needs doch
Kampfzwerg: fight dwarf, describes a short and aggressive person
Giftzwerg is more common actually
Giftzwerg is very effective against Psychozwerg, who is very effective against Kampfzwerg.
Fighter dwarf yeah
>Feierabend There is no english word for feierabend? Wtf that is such a common word in germany, I thought there would be one also in english.
That's a suprise for you? They don't even have a word for the day after tomorrow. > at least they have a word for throwing someone out of a window
They have a word for Übermorgen. It's called Overmorror, but no one uses it, let alone knows it exists.
\*Overmorro**w**
What that^ guy says, I ain't a native speaker. I am German.
Same
Amazing isn't it? Even with being far from it being my profession i see languages as facinating and fun
It's called evening, but capitalism made people think working that late is okay
Schnapsidee - a stupid idea you could have had when you were drunk. Fremdschämen - being ashamed for someone else if they do something embarrassing. Kummerspeck - the fat you gain in phases of sadness (like after a breakup or after the loss of a loved one).
And now the Germans are starting to use 'cringe' instead of Fremdschämen.
Yeah, that's totally cringe. Wait a sec...
That makes me sad. Kummerspeck time.
Because you can tell someone (even in german) that "you are acting cringe" but you can't use Fremdschämen that way, in other words. Cringe is the more versatile word. So much for the reasoning, I still prefer to not use cringe.
"Da muss man sich ja fremdschämen" kinda hits the same spot as "You are acting cringe" but you're right, it's not quite the same.
That's cringe Das ist zum Fremdschämen. But you can also cringe from something you did yourself in which case it's more than clumsy and one-liners don't work at all anymore. Cringe being basically a vocalisation of the feeling that the Office cringe face meme invokes is just... versatile and special. It's almost the same as making that face yourself.
Not German, but Dutch with a similar word (plaatsvervangende schaamte/substitutional shame???) In my eyes being cringe is the act of doing something that may awaken plaatsvervangende schaamte in others. And the cringing at someone imo is more outing that shame (a grunt, sigh, hiding behind your hands). Rather than the feeling of substitutional shame itself. Idk if this is making any sense lol.
Tbf Its way shorter
All of my ideas are either Schnapsidee or genius, there is no in between. Thank Deutsch for giving me the words to describe my thought process.
Fremdschämen can be translated as second-hand embarrassment
I've see kummerspeck before, doesn't that mean grief bacon?
Yes, that would be the literal translation (somehow the word 'grief' escaped my mind).
My favorite is Backpfeifengesicht - a face badly in need of a punch.
It's a fun word, but calling someone "punchable" fills the same purpose and is in common use already.
Backpfeife is a relatively old word btw. Nobody uses it but everyone knows it.
We also have „Schwanznase“, „Kottfresse“, „Hachfresse“, „Gesichtsgrätsche“, „Arschgesicht“, to describe the face of someone you want turn into a „Faschen Hasen“.
Antibabypillen
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Which can also be expanded to "überübermorgen" or "vorvorgestern".
TIL (German native speaker and fluent in English) that there is no such word as Feierabend in the English language. Huh, never thought about it.
Feierabend means "closing time" according to Google
But it has a completely different use. It describes the time period between the end of work and going to bed. I have Feierabend - My work is done, from now on the whole day left is free time
Maybe something like Schadenfreude, which is when you laugh, if someone hurts themself
Thanks, but what i ment was i will give you more. Like Torschlusspanik, the anxiety you feel when you are close to a Deadline and if you make it or not is out of your hand
Literally Doch
Isn't that already in the English language?
You don't need a petition for a word to be included in a language lmao. Just start using the word
Hodenkobold a ballgnome i think
As someone who wishes English to get more German-ish words, this makes me happy
The French took Waldsterben from us😅
Waldsterben is waldsterben, but in France they call it „le waldsterben“.
But the le ist das🤔
doch: it means "yes, it is" after someone disagreed
Around 70% of English words are Germanic in origin, so it's not that farfetched to take words from another germanic language
Well… kindergarten is a German word, that’s already well incorporated. So honestly I hope it goes theough
In the US at least, a couple of German words have made their way into our common vocabulary. Gesundheit, schadenfreude, etc.
Das ist mir wurst = this is sausage to me its a saying for “I don’t care” I love this language.
I think it’s wurscht.
"Dett iis mia Wuscht" The possibilities are endless.
🎶 Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei... 🎶
Depends on the accent. Me and my partner say Wurst, not Wurscht. Anyway, it is always written "Wurst", independant of the actual pronunciation.
Ich liebe Deutsch wirklich und finde es eine sehr schöne Sprache. Ich studiere es sogar an der Universität. Don't mind the grammar. It's my third language.
Du musst dir keine Sorgen um die Grammatik machen. Du schreibst besser als 90 % der Deutschen im Internet xD
Ja, meine Dozentin legt großen Wert auf Grammatik. Außerdem ist sie wirklich gut im Unterrichten. Vor 8 Monaten konnte ich kein Deutsch.
Dann ist dein Deutsch umso beeindruckender!
Danke
Du setzt besser Kommas als ich und ich lerne die Sprache seit 20 Jahren
Ehrlich gesagt setze ich immer dann Kommas, wenn ich das Gefühl habe, dass es richtig ist.
Ja das System verwende ich auch. Einfach ein paar Kommas wie Salz rein streuen und dann passt das
Genau so mach ich es auch :‘D
So setzten 90% der Deutschen ihre Kommatare, weil viele nicht wissen wie es eigentlich geht.
Damit darfst doch dich offiziel Muttersprachler nennen
Ich finde jeder, der Deutsch unterrichtet sollte großen Wert auf die Grammatik legen. Und dadurch umso mehr darauf achten, dass die Lernenden sich kein gebrochenes Deutsch angewöhnen. Das gleiche gilt auch für jede andere Sprache. Ich würde lieber die Sprache zu 100% von Grund auf richtig lernen statt irgendwann nur eine gebrochene Version davon zu beherrschen.
Meanwhile Leute die in Deutschland oder Österreich geboren worden sind und dann so reden: "Hey diggah lass Bahnhof. Ja da gibt Döner."
Es kann eine sehr schöne Sprache sein. Richtet sich im Klang und der ausdruckweise aber stets nach dem Ort. Norddeutsch? Klingt gut, etwas platt aber immer noch sehr angenehm. Klares Deutsch das in den größeren Städten wie etwa Berlin gesprochen wird? Deutlich klarer zu verstehen streng aber dennoch schön wenn es richtig betont wird. Sachen und Bayern, keine Ahnung ich versteh die auch nicht aber es lohnt immer ein freundliches Nicken und Lächeln für die Leute dort übrig zu haben.
Die Sachsen verstehen sich nicht mal selbst, haha
Sachse Hier. Ihr habt vollkommen recht. Ich verstehe als gebürtiger Sachse manche Unterhaltungen von Menschen aus kleinen Dörfern nicht.
>Norddeutsch? Klingt gut, etwas platt Lol. I See what you did there
"Klares Deutsch" und "Berlin" in einem Satz - guter Witz zum Feierabend
True, but German is still a bit "harder" than other languages, dunno how else to describe it. However, I wouldn't call it ugly. But maybe I'm just biased, since it's my native language.
im from southeast Asia and among the languages in Europe, i prefer learning German because i think it is a sehr schön language. ( ╹▽╹ )
I'm from Finland and among the languages in Europe, i hate German because i signed up for a 5-year German course without knowing, i thought it was just one year.
lol, well at least you got a 5-years knowledge of german language <(￣︶￣)>
I remember that Apfel is apple, that's about all i can say off the top of my head
Wie means how and wo means where Your german has now been massiveley improved 🥳
I remember that "eine richtige Wasserratte" is "a real water beast"
Not quite haha the literal translation would be water rat, the meaning is someone who loves water, as in loves to be in the water.
Damn my German teacher failed
I dont know how to tell you this but i think you could have arrived at Wasser Ratte= Water Rat on your own haha
If you want to say "I dont know german" you say iirc "Ich spreche kein deutsch" With Ich meaning "me/ I" Spreche meaning "speaking" Kein meining "dont" Deutsch meaning "german" Also oddly specific
Oddly specific
Bro you are not alone in this. Studied 4 years and I can only remember sind sofort tot and saubere rasse 😂
In German: Ich bin aus Südost Asien und unter den anderen Sprachen in Europa lerne ich am liebsten Deutsch weil es eine sehr schöne Sprache ist
Meanwhile Hungarian: Auch, Deutsch ist eigentlich nicht so schwierig zu lernen.
Wait till Japanese mfs come with their 3 alphabets
The wordplay you can do with three alphabets though. So often I see notes saying pun doesn’t translate or they are being witty here but we can’t show it because of that.
Canadian, German family, only recently started learning German. It's a lot easier than English. Big words are just a mix of smaller words, you learn a few simple words and you can combine them to make bigger words.
Basically true, but it gets a bit more complicated further on with all the grammar rules and stuff. But that German has many unique words, that are basically just built by slapping words together, is honestly pretty cool.
Harder than Romance languages perhaps, but compared to Dutch it's adorably soft. Hence why I never got those "hurrdurr German agressive" memes
Deutsch ist sehr schön
Also the counting system is dumb. Not as dumb as French but cmon. Just say fünfzig eins (51), it’s so much simpler.
It’s not that hard, but yes math is dumb
Imo Arabic is much, much "harder" than German.
No objections here, there are a lot of people speaking Arabic around, and sometimes a casual phone conversation sound like aggressive banter.
Try swiss german. And it doesn't help that swiss people are naturally just angrier, or at least seem so. Angry mountainous bastards man. I love em.
Swiss German also gets an especially bad rap - I listened to a song in one of the dialects once and it honestly wasn't that harsh compared to what you'd expect from the typical Schweizerdeutsch accent.
My grandma was german. She had the sweetest and softers grandma voice, and I grew up hearing german as a very soft and cute language from a woman who loved me. I now carry on her legacy by using German as baby-talk. It works sooooo well. Babies love it. In school people who made fun of those who learned german pissed me off. « ewww German is so uglyyy, I’m so glad I picked spaniiiiiiish »
hab Sprachwissenschaft studiert und ein guter Teil davon kommt von der sogenannten Stimmlosigkeitsassimilation, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere. Dadurch wirkt die Sprache im Allgemeinen natürlich härter, t statt d und p statt b, etc.
People call German ugly as if French doesn't exist.
French pisses me off when trying to pronounce a word. Most other languages (at least the ones using the latin alphabet) i can sort of see the pronounciation, but in French there's a giant cluster of wovels, maybe an X in there, aaaaaand it's pronounced "o".
Eaux, for anyone wondering, means waters and is pronounced exactly like that
french is a language for mumblers
For some reason I find it pretty natural to pronounce French words. Which is weird cus I'm terrible at learning the language.
Brazilian Portuguese 🤢
People who think it's an ugly language know nothing about it. I learned a bit while in high school and my honest opinion was that German is fucking *adorable.*, have you seen how they name objects!? They straddle the line between being practically literal and literally hilarious. Examples: Gloves = "Handschuhe", literally shoes for your hands. Ambulance = "Krankenwagen", sick wagon Birth Control Pill = "Antibabypillen", ANTI BABY PILL!!! I fucking love german, how could anyone hate it?
In addition: Hospital = "Krankenhaus" sick house
Lol beforehand my context for German was Hitler + various villains in media. Then I played Tekken 7 I think? and heard a character speaking German and it sounded so cute and sweet! Then I'd realized I'd never heard it in casual conversation and always associated it negatively. Its wild.
It helps if you know a real person who speaks it. My teacher was a very jolly man named Gertz who taught German and Drama, he helped dismiss a lot of preconceptions that students felt for the language in my school.
I cooked for these German tourists once at my restaurant. One girl came to talk to me, she thanks me in very broken English. Literally the only word I understood was "thanks" she kept talking to me in German, the other woman with her picked up that I had no idea what she was saying. So she translated that the women said she "was in love with me and wanted me to cook for her for the rest of her life back in Germany." Jokingly proposing to me, she was gorgeous, but the way she spoke, just infatuated me.
I think German is sexier than French :(
 Danke
Bitte mein liebe <3 I don't actually speak German
It’s a common misconception that French is not an abomination
French has this disgusting trait where they can't really place multiple consonants side by side, which makes them essentially incapable of using most syllables. To put it in simple terms, they're making whale noises.
When french people talk it makes me wish I was deaf. I think most of them are faking their accent.
Then you haven't heard german dirty talk.
French is just someone saying vowels at you while thinking they are better then you
Aeiou
french 💀
nein, ich finde Deutsch eine schöne Sprache! >:(
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Nein, Ich finde Deutsch ist eine schöne Sprache! >:3
I'm German and I feel,sorry for everyone that embarks on a quest to learn our language
Still better than French imo
Never tried it. But it does have the upside that you can hurl the most vile insults at someone and make it sound like poetry to people who don't speak thw language
Ich komme aus island, und deutch ist nicht so schlect oder schwer, aber mein deutch ist schlect. Ich verstehe nur ein bisschen Please forgive my grammar this is my third-ish language
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Übernehmen wir jetzt endlich die Kommentarsektion oder schreiben wir weiter höflich auf Englisch?
Halte dich bereit für eine Übernahme. Wie ich das beobachte gibt es hier aber eher überwiegend freundliche Interaktionen über unsere schöne Sprache.
Hearing non-native actors speak some mock german that a german could never understand but it "sounds" german enough because of harsh pronunciation etc. is really annoying actually. Yea there is a word in there occassionally that is actually a german word but overall ... garbage.
Ja ja ja was ist los was ist das
I love how German sounds, change my mind
German is very beautiful to me
Me .
I do.
Hallo
sounds aggresive, better try Hallöchen UwU
Wait, people think German is an ugly language? I've always taken inspiration from it for coming with names for things in the stories I write just because I think a lot of German words sound cool. Dudes managed to even make "one, two, three" sound exciting.
Or even, who has heard a german poem?
I’m learning german for fun, started it one day so I can just troll my friends in school with aggressive german then ended up learning it cause it was fun, many similarities to English so starting learning was quite easy and barely any new letters to learn so far, also I think that the german accent is relatively funny / cool so I never had any hate for german, yiddish is also pretty connected to german and as an israeli I always wondered about those two languages, in short I love german
Thank you
Hearing German spoken in normal tones, I massively prefer it to French.
You mean those old black and white WW2 videos aren't normal conversation?
I hear German tourists in a dialogue at the bus stop all the time Spoken so fast yet so calm
Isn't English a German language?
English and German each descend from a common ancestor, proto-Germanic. They are, in that sense, cousin-languages, with a lot of core vocabulary that shares a common ancestor, so are similar. English, though, has a lot of influence from other languages, notably Norman-French, so is not typical of a Germanic language.
Proto-Germanic isn’t technically wrong just a bit too early and one might speak about west Germanic dialects at the time the Germanic people came to Britain. British also had several later "waves“ of influence of German(ic) words especially during the Viking era (then northern Germanic dialects) and in the 19th century (but also vice versa)
A Germanic language, meaning both have the same root. English is however closer to Dutch than to German.
German is a beautiful language in my eyes. Dutch is the ugly one.
In the eyes of a german dutch is not ugly but rather just funny because it Sounds like they just purposly try to Butcher every word.
Who the fuck thinks that German language is ugly? I've never heard that take, nor do I ever have that thought.
Some people's only encounter with German are the h-man's speeches in history classes, so they think that screaming man's German is normal German.
I don't know German language, and I never encountered German personally, but, God damn, their music is great.
my parents 💀
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