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rich.bradshaw - 08.04.2006, 12:23 Uhr
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Can you speak german? I always wish I could partake in the German side of this forum! Is it any different over there? Bet a lot of discussions are duplicated...

I can sort of speak German, I learnt it for 2 years at school, but not really enough to say anything except "Ich habe ein kaninchen".

devil - 08.04.2006, 12:32 Uhr
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rich,
hehe, you are for sure the master of polls and general questions on the forum.
and yes, i speak german.

greetz
devil

schnorrer - 08.04.2006, 14:19 Uhr
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no rich,

I can't speek german, but schwäbisch and a bit (d)english not fluently.

Cintra - 08.04.2006, 14:52 Uhr
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leider nicht Traurig

nemesis - 08.04.2006, 16:06 Uhr
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My 4 and 5 year olds speak it, so I guess I need to learn so that they are not talking about me behind my back...

bluewater - 08.04.2006, 17:14 Uhr
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I type english as a second language (ESL) my first language is english....... grins

jackiebrown - 08.04.2006, 21:22 Uhr
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no but I can babel

wakarimasen - 08.04.2006, 22:21 Uhr
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I can speak it, but my written skills are poor..........

piper - 08.04.2006, 22:55 Uhr
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Hell, I can't even speak english let alone german Auf den Arm nehmen

Daniele - 09.04.2006, 15:35 Uhr
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I voted "yes" but in fact I can read it but I don't dare writing.
As to actual "speaking" I used to talk for hours with my German friends.

Akuna - 11.04.2006, 18:48 Uhr
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Nein! Yet, I did learn it in High school & college for a few years, the problem is I never practiced it in real life....
But I did learn English both in high school, college & real life & I must say that it does come in pretty handy... It helps French folks & German folks to communicate Winken

(and everybody else too...)
And yes, Babel helps too...

slam - 11.04.2006, 20:44 Uhr
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Yes definitely - but it is a boring, ugly and un-musical language. English is not much better, anyway. Winken

Greetings,
Chris

h2 - 11.04.2006, 22:32 Uhr
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slam, nice new avatar, that's one of the few avatars I've ever seen that's actually worth using bandwidth to serve up.

Aren't you going to get killed for your views on german language? I went through all of high school/junior high studying german, but I have to agree, as languages go german is pretty harsh to my ears, definitely not made for beauty etc. Good for logic though, which is probably why german programmers seem to be so good. German for some reason is a very good language for philosophy too.

It's pretty unmusical, I have to agree, too harsh for my taste, english seems ok for music, but if I had to pick just one language to speak and live around it would be spanish, from spain, not south/central america. Or Catalan, something like that.

hubi - 11.04.2006, 22:44 Uhr
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Yes, I do, I even teach it to Hungarians. But: I would not want to learn it if it were not my first language. Lachen

hubi

anticapitalista - 11.04.2006, 23:36 Uhr
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Slam,
so you think English is a bit more musical, more beautiful and interesting than German? lol.

I would have (sort of) agreed with you until I met, it was many years ago now [sigh], a nice frauline from Stuttgart and her German sounded soft and poetic.

I couldn't understand a word, but it didn't matter.

I digress, no I can't speak German, only English and Greek.

horo - 12.04.2006, 11:52 Uhr
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Zitat:

I would have (sort of) agreed with you until I met, it was many years ago now [sigh], a nice frauline from Stuttgart and her German sounded soft and poetic.

I couldn't understand a word, but it didn't matter.

Even as a german I'm not able to understand "Schwäbisch" (the idiom spoken by the aborigines of Stuttgart) Winken

Ciao Martin

Daniele - 13.04.2006, 04:06 Uhr
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slam hat folgendes geschrieben::

Yes definitely - but it is a boring, ugly and un-musical language.

Well, when you listen to the fourth movement of Beethoven 9th symphony or some Mahler's symphonies you wouldn't believe that German is ugly and un-musical. Sehr glücklich

slam - 13.04.2006, 09:50 Uhr
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Daniele: Well, have to agree when we really talk about real music. Another good example would be one of the fascinating Operas Richard Strauss wrote, i.e. "Frau ohne Schatten".
Greetings,
Chris

severin - 13.04.2006, 10:36 Uhr
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there's a bunch of german poetry mp3's at http://learninggerman.mschubertberlin.d ... ?cat=Poems . Check them out if you feel like it. Not my favourite poems (haven't even listened to them, just read), but maybe they're good

Gowator - 15.04.2006, 11:54 Uhr
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LOL
So little time so many fraunlines....
I have to guess half of the words but its an action specific language which makes it easier. At least it doesn't contain double and triple negatives like French leaving foreigners wondering if the must or must never rm -rf /
As a foreigner I still get confused with the French habit of double and triple negatives yet native French people seem able to just glance at the sentence and take the right meaning.

Klenje - 17.04.2006, 13:37 Uhr
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I've studied it, and I can read it more or less, speaking is much more schwierig though... so I vote nein Cool

schnorrer - 17.04.2006, 22:44 Uhr
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@klenje,

natural HighGerman, you're right, but what about scheäbisch, or platdüsch?

for the other schwäbisch is spoke and understand fom middle of austira up tu the middle of germany. sounds more urban and more friendly than ...

plattdütsch is spoken from hanover north to the northse and in sonsoutern regions of england. and has more common with the Brittish english. even undersood by danish, belgish or the netherlands.

Klenje - 18.04.2006, 20:29 Uhr
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yes, I practiced m German mainly in Osterreich, since I live quite nearby, and if they speak normally it's pretty hard to understand, but I guess it's the same with all the languages (and it can be also worse, for example in souther n Italy) Sehr glücklich

schnorrer - 18.04.2006, 22:20 Uhr
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klenje,

1 Q: where are you from, denmark, netherlands, belgium, or from scandinavia? I know, that some have difficulties to learn the german speaking and Iknow some turkish people they learnt german schwäbisch better than plain german.

And yes I know some Ameriacan too, they talked better schwäbisch than german. But the schwäbisch syntax is rather worse.

darktiger - 19.04.2006, 19:54 Uhr
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I am multilingual:

1. Berlinarisch
2. Schwäbisch with Tuttlinger accent
3. Ruhr-Pott-German
4. a little bit austrian and schwitzer-dütsch

for the other not important languages like english or france or Hoch-Deutsch (natural HighGerman?) I have my girl friend Smilie

Jeff_knx - 19.04.2006, 20:48 Uhr
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ein Bier bitte
wo ist die toilete

or, really really bad ....

der grosse mann ist ein schiessekopf!!

Of course, that stupid sentence is structured like it would be in English, not German, so it really really sucks gramatically.

Actually, I'm quite capable of typing in English words at a translation website and have translated to German. Winken

Jeff_knx - 19.04.2006, 21:06 Uhr
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Daniele hat folgendes geschrieben::

slam hat folgendes geschrieben::

Yes definitely - but it is a boring, ugly and un-musical language.

Well, when you listen to the fourth movement of Beethoven 9th symphony or some Mahler's symphonies you wouldn't believe that German is ugly and un-musical. Sehr glücklich

I agree wholeheartedly.

Actually, whether spoken or sung in a beautiful Beethoven or Mahler symphony, I think German sounds pretty cool.

lance9 - 20.04.2006, 12:10 Uhr
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There must be something wrong with me...

I LIKE German! I have even found myself enjoying German music (of course, that just started about a year ago, after having been here for 8 years).

I very honestly prefer the German spoken from Salzburg on east and south, which seems more melodic and carries more emotion than in Germany (where I also lived for a time). The Viennese dialect is great -- can't really speak it, but can understand some of it and find it VERY entertaining to hear!

Lance

Cuddles - 20.04.2006, 18:03 Uhr
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I have to vote for "not" German, I dont speak it, cant read it, and, mostly, peck at words, to get the "jest" of the complete sentence... In essence... Im lost...

But... to be completely honest, I didnt have this feeling of learning the German Language, as much as I do know, until... I heard, from what I hear, a German Group, what would be called "pop" music back in the 80's, and found myself almost wanting to sing-a-long with it, and after moving to Kanotix, and wanting to "help" more, feeling the need to hit a school up on any German classes... I had the album on record, then to cassettes, and lastly, dug around to find it "finally" come out on CD. Nena - to be precise, the "99 Red Balloons" album. In which, I found, the "English" side of the album to be rather boring, "run-of-the-mill" fare, but, the Side "B" was all done in German... Which, I enjoyed. The music was immaginative, full of imagery, and, in my, "80's native tongue" -=- Rockin! -=-

( But then again, I watched "White Nights" and liked the "rebelistic" decadent "illegal" music they played that they were not supposed to be, too Smilie

)

My goal is... to learn German, both read, write, and speak, and be able to contribute more within these forums, and on the IRC... Just have to find a college around this small town that teaches it Traurig

lance9 - 20.04.2006, 21:03 Uhr
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Ahhh, that must be it, because I liked Nena as well! Actually still do.
@ Cuddles: if you like Nena, you might also have a listen to Wir Sind Helden, Juli, or Xavier Naidoo, or even Austria's pride and joy Christina Stürmer.
Lance

Klenje - 20.04.2006, 21:23 Uhr
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schnorrer hat folgendes geschrieben::

I'm from NE italy (Friaul) Auf den Arm nehmen

But I wasn't talking about speaking myself, since I've learned standard German, but more about listening and understanding

schnorrer - 20.04.2006, 23:38 Uhr
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tnx, klenje

I'm on the wrong way, because your Nick.

Good Night

Klenje - 22.04.2006, 19:23 Uhr
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btw my nick is slavic. Austria is close to my region, but Slovenia is even closer Lachen

bye