Huh? Wo sind die posts? Where are they?
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A better reason to learn it is that anything you say in German sounds like swearing.
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
Too many Hollywood movies m3in Freund.
Yeah. Once I overheard someone chatting behind me while in a train. I knew it was in German because I've learnt some long time before. It was the cutest (presumably romantic) conversation I've ever even though I didn't understand much. Before that I've always thought French sounded the nicest, but that conversation shattered my belief.
A while later, I went to Germany to visit friend. While at a museum I read out loud some descriptions on items there. He told me I spoke like in films, even like Hitler. Hearing him talking with family, it was very casual and there was no sudden change of intonation like in movies. I somehow realized stereotype in movies ruined my perspective on the language.
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Deutsch ist gar nicht so schwierig. Versuch es doch einfach mal!
Bloß nicht c/ich_iel besuchen. Zangendeutsch kann Einen verrückt machen.
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I copy that and will increase production, if you ask I translate, you're welcome.
Sincerely, RatherMaybe.
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please be advised that speaking german properly is super fucking hard compared to learning many other languages, and you don't need german in germany for the most part.
when I'm in germany I speak my shitty, broken german and they respond to me in english
Compared to other languages... If those other languages are Romantic, North Germanic, Dutch, Afrikaans, or Frisian. A majority of other languages are typically considered more difficult for people who only speak English.
That being said, I found Russian way easier than German at first, but that quickly stops being the case... German shares a lot of semantic/syntactic similarities with English so you can reasonably assume that a lot of German constructions will easily translate to English, for Russian though it's more unfamiliar and you have to put more effort into thinking Russian-y. The main thing that made German way harder at first is German declensions... ugh... Russian has a complex declension system but it's extremely regular, while German declensions are pretty irregular and the declension of articles is especially bad because their forms overlap a lot. Adjective declension is similarly bad. German word order also fucked with me a lot but it's decently rigid so you get it quickly.
They probably speak English with you because your German is not sufficiently efficient.
That's when you double down and tell them in German that you don't speak English. That'll confuse 'em.
Fuck it i'll just speak spanish or french then.
I, a white man, would love to learn to speak German with an Indian accent just to really fuck with 'em
That's the spirit.
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Ja, das habe ich
Viel Erfolg!
Danke
Do people use language settings? I have mine set to include German so I don't know if turning it off would actually filter out many of these posts.
Oh, I should probably play with those, as I see no German posts at all.
Since feddit.de is dead, you need to visit some DE-related communuties on feddit.org like DACH and ich_iel :)
Not only because of that, but it was definitely a factor.
I'd be interested in learning, because German is the biggest contributor to modern English along with French. Of course the split happened long, long ago, but still...
It would have to be a couple years though, after I (knock on wood) am done getting to about B2/C1 on French.
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My phone translates anything on screen in more or less real time. If the post looks interesting I can read it no matter the language.
What phone is that?
Pixel phones have a "feature" by pressing the home button long (which usually activates the assistant) it will activate a sort of screen reader.
I do the same thing with my Pixel, but I assume it's all Android phones. I just hold down the power button on my phone for a second then click Translate. It works pretty well for most of the German memes.
OK, TIL, thanks! I just bought a new phone, so this is all new to me :)