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    Guten Tag!!


    Anyone Here Speak German? I'm taking German this year and next year in my last 2 years of High School and plan on taking it in College, since I like to become Fluent in it. Anyone here Speak German Well?



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    Ein bier, bitte!
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    That's about all I remember from a year of high school Deutsche, but it's the most important phrase you can learn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    Ein bier, bitte!
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    That's about all I remember from a year of high school Deutsche, but it's the most important phrase you can learn.
    In Bavaria, if you can say that as well as the above, you're practically a native.
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    Schwäbisch Tube, mi favorit. Fempf halbe sen so viel wia a schnitzel, ond dann hosch emmr no nix dronga.


    And haggis of course.
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    I speak a little bit of german, was born close to germans, lived close to them and so on, it kinda comes naturally when you have contact with germans now and then.


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    I have to agree with Husar. I didn't choose but I was also born amongst Germans, so German comes naturally for me nowdays. Though it could have been different was I not born here, but somewhere else.

    But as it is, my German is fluent.

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    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.
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    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???)


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    Quote Originally Posted by shlin28 View Post
    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Viking View Post
    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
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    Und ja, ich muss meine Blattlause geknülen.
    Was that geknülen or geknülle?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cmacq View Post
    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.


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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    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.
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    Jawohl, Herr Ludwig der Dicke spricht fabelhaft Deutsch und werde hier eine neue, umfassende Perspektive in der Philosophie, welche die Diskussion bis ins 21. Jahrhundert maßgeblich beeinflussen werde, geknülen, dar das Slachsteitertum und flieren oft als steifer gegründet an einen mäßigen Tagesablaufwaffenkönscherkünstler dargestellt wird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Jawohl, Herr Ludwig der Dicke spricht fabelhaft Deutsch und werde hier eine neue, umfassende Perspektive in der Philosophie, welche die Diskussion bis ins 21. Jahrhundert maßgeblich beeinflussen werde, geknülen, dar das Slachsteitertum und flieren oft als steifer gegründet an einen mäßigen Tagesablaufwaffenkönscherkünstler dargestellt wird.

    Netter Versuch Ludwig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    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).

    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    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 )


    Quote Originally Posted by cmacq
    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.
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    Right,

    Vik, I figured you weren't telling the world about your 'schoshi chingos.'


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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    Netter Versuch Ludwig.

    Ab "werde" wird es langsam aber sicher immer schlimmer, Absicht?
    Genau das was in meine Post hat passiert, ist was mich immer passiert. Jedes Jahres denke ich, na kommt, lese ich mal Kant oder etwas im original Sprache, auf Deutsch.

    Und, die erste zwei oder drei Minuten geht's fabelhaft. Aber dann...dann kommen die verdammte Deutscher immer wieder mit al dieser unbekannter Wörter...immer neue...immer längere...immer wieder...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Genau das was in meine Post hat passiert, ist was mich immer passiert. Jedes Jahres denke ich, na kommt, lese ich mal Kant oder etwas im original Sprache, auf Deutsch.

    Und, die erste zwei oder drei Minuten geht's fabelhaft. Aber dann...dann kommen die verdammte Deutscher immer wieder mit al dieser unbekannter Wörter...immer neue...immer längere...immer wieder...




    Der Post ist aber sehr gut und gut verständlich, noch lange nicht richtig, aber für einen Franzmann sehr gut.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Genau das was in meine Post hat passiert, ist was mich immer passiert. Jedes Jahres denke ich, na kommt, lese ich mal Kant oder etwas im original Sprache, auf Deutsch.

    Und, die erste zwei oder drei Minuten geht's fabelhaft. Aber dann...dann kommen die verdammte Deutscher immer wieder mit al dieser unbekannter Wörter...immer neue...immer längere...immer wieder...


    Don't worry, German is not the easiest language to learn, I guess.

    If it makes you feel better, your German is waaay better than my French and I have been studying that for quite some years in school.

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    Ja, wirklich gar nicht so schlecht für einen Franzosen.

    Ich hatte vier Jahre Französisch in der Schule und das einzige was ich gelernt habe ist "Je ne sais pas." Das war nämlich meine Antwort auf alles. Aber zu meiner Entschuldigung muss ich sagen, dass die Lehrerin auch echt bescheuert war.

    Auf jeden Fall wünsche ich allen noch viel Spaß mit dem Deutschen, und wenn ihr eine Frage habt, könnt ihr mich auch jederzeit fragen. Hatte in Deutsch immer gute Noten. Aber das liegt vielleicht auch daran dass es meine Muttersprache ist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joooray View Post
    Don't worry, German is not the easiest language to learn, I guess.

    If it makes you feel better, your German is waaay better than my French and I have been studying that for quite some years in school.



    I Do want to Learn German so I can go to Swissland!

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    Quote Originally Posted by |Sith|1|AntiWarmanCake88 Toyosada88 View Post
    I Do want to Learn German so I can go to Swissland!
    I hate to tell you Warman, but what they speak in Switzerland...that ain't German.

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    Yes I speak a little german but I really have to think while speaking it, english and french comes much more naturally.

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    Sprecken ze doiche?

    I'm not even sure if that is German...and even if it is it wouldn't be any use to me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elite Ferret View Post
    Sprecken ze doiche?

    I'm not even sure if that is German...and even if it is it wouldn't be any use to me
    Your spelling is off. A lot. But other than that, yeah, it's German.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elite Ferret View Post
    Sprecken ze doiche?

    I'm not even sure if that is German...and even if it is it wouldn't be any use to me
    Pah, even I know that:

    Sprech Sie (or sie, one of them refers to 'formal' you and the other refers to she, right? ) Deutsch?



    (That's how far 3 years of studying German got me )


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