Plankton

= Friendswithbenefits, only the German pronunciation makes it sound like the dude (or one of the dudes nttawwt) has a massive member.

amiright?

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Kartoffelbrei

Yes. Before I use a word that's as long as the one I created, I just describe what I mean to the other person. You can have a lot of fun with the German language, but building the most long word ever, is not very fun
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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Kartoffelbrei

:P Strange words to remember.

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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Circe

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.

Kartoffelbrei

Roeken is dodelig! or sth like that
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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Scarlett O'Hara

Jah, ein leibe Deutschland.

I learned German at school because my late Granddad was teaching himself how to learn the language and he wrote letters to me in German with the English translation, before he died. I have a German heritage with my last name being German, based on a town in Germany where my ancestors came from. We have our own shield and family tree in a Dahlenburg book which includes a diary of my great great great Grandfather who's mother wrote in a diary on the ship to New Zealand. I eventually want to teach myself the language again as I have forgotten a lot of the words I knew from school. I plan on visiting the town and the rest of Germany when I have got some money saved.

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Kartoffelbrei

What? :P

Dahlenburg? That's in the north, right? Ya, the north of Germany is kinda flat, but it's still very beautiful. Especially because of the ocean and the vegetation there
Yeah, you should really try learning the language. It's a tricky language, but you have the best chance of learning it well if you talk english, i guess. the languages are still very similar.

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Scarlett O'Hara

Lol, you don't speak the language?

Yes it's in the north, Outside of Hamburg. That's the reason why my family on my dad's side is pale because of the ancestors coming from the north to NZ.

It's actually very close to English and there is 27 letters instead of 26. I can't wait to go there and see the beautiful countrysides. I will make sure I have a good grasp of the language before I visit though. I believe a lot of Germans can speak English as well, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Kartoffelbrei

Natürlich sprech' ich deutsch ;P I was born here
The sentence you posted just means "Yes, a body Germany.", hehe
That's why i got confused


Actually there are 30 letters, if you count ä, ö and ü, but they are just ae, oe and ue. You should really visit bavaria, if you get to germany. it's so amazing here. we have lakes 'n mountains 'n snow 'n beauty everywhere

Yeah, english is taught here in 3rd grade and all the rest of the time in school

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Neapolitan

I thought that there were 26 letters. The esset is a ligature, it's when two letters that are joined together, it's from the two S's found in Fraktur joined together i.e. ſ + s = ß. The umlaut is a diacritic, a glyph add to letter e.g. a + ¨ = ä. I don't know if they are considered new letters, I thought of them as modified versions of per-existing letters imo.

French seems to flow because of the liaisons and the words lean into each other as if a sentence is one long word. German has guttural stops, and depending upon regional differences the ending of certain consonants that are vocalized in English are non-vocalized, so g when it is the last letter is pronounce [k] , d when it is the last letter is pronounce [t] and a few others. German also has the voiceless velar fricative ch [x] It took me a while but I learned to roll my R's in the back of my throat like how Kraftwerk say "Harrisburg" in Radioactivity, and have non-rhotic at the end of words which I don't know is still in practice. I learn to scrap the back of my throat when pronouncing the French R e.g. très bien. I don't know if it is because of those things that make German sound harsher to some people than say French. I took German language 3 years in high school, and I like the language very much. And I studied the French language on my own.

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