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Post subject: Can you speak German?
 Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 12:23 PM
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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". |
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Post subject: Can you speak German?
Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 12:32 PM
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Location: berlin
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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
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Post subject: Can you speak German?
Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 02:19 PM
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no rich,
I can't speek german, but schwäbisch and a bit (d)english not fluently. |
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Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 02:52 PM
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Location: Norway
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leider nicht  |
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Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 04:06 PM
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Location: Würzburg
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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... |
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Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 05:14 PM
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| I type english as a second language (ESL) my first language is english....... grins |
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Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 09:22 PM
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Location: Texas
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| no but I can babel |
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Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 10:21 PM
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| I can speak it, but my written skills are poor.......... |
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Posted: Apr 08, 2006 - 10:55 PM
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Posted: Apr 09, 2006 - 03:35 PM
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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. |
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Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 06:48 PM
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Location: France
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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  (and everybody else too...)
And yes, Babel helps too... |
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Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 08:44 PM
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Yes definitely - but it is a boring, ugly and un-musical language. English is not much better, anyway.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 10:32 PM
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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. |
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Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 10:44 PM
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Location: Budapest
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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. 
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Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 11:36 PM
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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. |
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Posted: Apr 12, 2006 - 11:52 AM
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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)
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Posted: Apr 13, 2006 - 04:06 AM
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Location: Italy
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slam wrote:
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.  |
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Posted: Apr 13, 2006 - 09:50 AM
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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,
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Posted: Apr 13, 2006 - 10:36 AM
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Posted: Apr 15, 2006 - 11:54 AM
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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. |
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Posted: Apr 17, 2006 - 01:37 PM
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Location: Friuli, NE Italy
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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  |
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Posted: Apr 17, 2006 - 10:44 PM
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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. |
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Posted: Apr 18, 2006 - 08:29 PM
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Location: Friuli, NE Italy
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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) |
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Posted: Apr 18, 2006 - 10:20 PM
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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. |
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Posted: Apr 19, 2006 - 07:54 PM
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Location: Essen
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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  |
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