German??

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Immersion is the only way to learn a language. I spent last year in Germany with a German host family and now I'm basically fluent. Though that doesn't mean I don't mess up my grammar (articles and such) occasionally. It's a fun language, if you really really want to learn it head to Germany and try to learn German there. It's really the only way to do it. Plus it's lots of fun.

[shlin28]

Two years of German in secondary school has taught me... nothing.

Still, apparently I will get an A in GCSE for German according to my teacher, even though I still don't get the basic 'die', 'der' and 'das', in tests I just guess . (How should I know which is masculine or not???)

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Two years of German in secondary school has taught me... nothing.

Still, apparently I will get an A in GCSE for German according to my teacher, even though I still don't get the basic 'die', 'der' and 'das', in tests I just guess . (How should I know which is masculine or not???)

Eh got a 770 on the German SAT II by basically guessing/knowing a few and I never formally learned the articles, they aren't horribly important to being understood. This was before my first ever German class, German V last year after my trip abroad.

[Viking]

Unfortunately, learning a foreign language in addition to English is required, so yes. Nothing wrong with the language, but I didn't choose to learn another language.

Und ja, ich muss meine Blattlause geknülen.

[HoreTore]

Unfortunately, learning a foreign language in addition to English is required, so yes. Nothing wrong with the language, but I didn't choose to learn another language.

Yes you did. You could've taken one of the other extra classes instead, like more english or norwegian

[cmacq]

Und ja, ich muss meine Blattlause geknülen.

Was that geknülen or geknülle?

[Husar]

Was that geknülen or geknülle?

It doesn't make sense either way, not your two options, and neither does the sentence with any of the available options. "Geknülle" makes a bit of sense like that, as a nomen instead of a verb, but not useful for the sentence either.

Wenn Sie sagen können, was "Blattlause geknülen" bedeuten soll, kommen wir vielleicht weiter, Herr Viking.

[Kaidonni]

I've been taking German at nightclass for three years now. Heaps of fun - so going to Germany isn't the only way to learn it. I'd say in addition to nightclass at Dudley College *shameless plug*. Seriously, been real fun.

Of course, I'm not fluent or an expert yet.

[cmacq]

Wenn Sie sagen können, was "Blattlause geknülen" bedeuten soll, kommen wir vielleicht weiter, Herr Viking.

Indeed perhaps? Then again, maybe it has to do with knülen as used in Swedish or Norwegian, but that doesn’t seem to make much sense, either.

[Viking]

Yes you did. You could've taken one of the other extra classes instead, like more english or norwegian

I'm pretty certain I could not; because then I would (more Norwegian is definitely not an option anyway, and thank God for that).

It doesn't make sense either way, not your two options, and neither does the sentence with any of the available options. "Geknülle" makes a bit of sense like that, as a nomen instead of a verb, but not useful for the sentence either.

Wenn Sie sagen können, was "Blattlause geknülen" bedeuten soll, kommen wir vielleicht weiter, Herr Viking.

Oh, ich meine zerknüllen. Entschuldigung. Vielleicht es kein Absicht gemacht, aber nichts ab mein Deutsch macht, sowieso.

(some of those words are fresh out of the dictionary )

Indeed perhaps? Then again, maybe it has to do with knülen as used in Swedish or Norwegian, but that doesn’t seem to make much sense, either.

Haha, that's indeed why I choose that particular verb, though the sentence is lovely random. Blattlaus is one of the first words I checked in my dictionary, also.