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03-12-2014, 10:19 AM | #21 (permalink) | |
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backwards in comparison to english? :/ i have to check that.. dunno yet, but i'm givin english lessons tonight, so i'll just watch the languages when spoken simultaneously
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03-12-2014, 10:52 AM | #23 (permalink) |
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I never found German too hard to listen to as an English speaker. I think a lot of the perception of it as a "harsh" language is linked to stereotypes of Germans being cold and intimidating. The more understated speakers I've heard have made it sound far less angry and mean. If you want a good example of a Germanic language that sounds alien to English ears Dutch is probably the best example, particularly with Flemish speakers. It has just the right combination of similarities and complete differences to English to sound completely bizarre, and that's not getting into how weird Dutch accents sound when speaking English.
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03-12-2014, 11:09 AM | #24 (permalink) | ||
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But yeah, we have very long words. But that's only, because in German you can fuse words together to a longer word. I can create a long word right now myself..uhhm...wait: "Bilderrahmengeraderückgesellschaftsangestelltena usweisproduktionswerkstelle", which means "the place where the ID card of an employee of an agency that helps crooked picture frames being straight again is produced"
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03-12-2014, 11:13 AM | #25 (permalink) | |
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Dutch sounds so awkward, when you're german. They almost talk our language, but then they dont. I mean the girls sound amazingly hot, but that's all... :/ The problem about their language is that they don't pronounce a "sch" like a "sch", but like a "s" sound..which..is really..ANNOYING! The "sch" is the same thing as the english "sh", as in "****"
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03-12-2014, 11:26 AM | #26 (permalink) | |
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They're not even on government forms (at least not that much of them), because there's a HUGE difference between sophisticated German, and standard German and also between older German and modern German. Me, for example, I talk like an old man, when I talk German. Many people don't get the heck of what I'm saying and ask me all the time what I meant by the words I used...For example: When you say cinema in German, most people would tend to say the word "Kino", which is a very modern word.. but I usually say "Lichtspielhaus", which means "Lightplayhouse", and is a very old word...80% of young germans do not understand what I mean by that.
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03-12-2014, 04:10 PM | #28 (permalink) | ||
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The word "Freundschaftsbeziehung" does not exist, that's the funny thing but maybe in another district of germany. It just sounds like that, yeah
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03-12-2014, 04:23 PM | #29 (permalink) | |
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like..that you and another person decide to be friends?
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03-12-2014, 04:36 PM | #30 (permalink) | |
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I'm sorry, i thought that you made a typo, but yeah.. "freundschaftsbezeigung" was correct then.. ."bezeigung" means, that you point out something. so in that case of course it's them showing off a "friendship" but the word "bezeigung" is like 200 years old, lol
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