Do you like the German language?

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

 

[SpergioLeonne]

But a lot of everything else was part of the the 1066 disaster.

The non-Slav, patrilineal line of my family is first recorded in the Domesday book. We were part of the 1066 disaster. Bill invited us

 

[Midwest Midwit]

German is the best language for singing in; even for softer songs. Try Julianne Werding's covers of Moonlight Shadow and The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down. It just has more bite than other languages.

 

[pork and beans]

refuses from then on out to speak German with me. Like asshole, I am in your country, speak your goddamn language with me I spent literal decades of my life learning at this point with me.

oh that sucks, i hope that doesnt happen to me when I go there... ... although i kind of understand though, they want to practice their english too and they probably think you'll appreciate it on some level or that its a way to better connect with you. being spoken in german would be way more helpful though

 

[Stan]

ZIE SHIECHDWEM ACHT EIN ENDERSPOODLE UND DER FRECTHEN ZOIN DUN WHASTEIRMACTHETEREN!!!!!!!!

It's good for motivating speeches and metal (eg Raamstein) as someone said. Reading a romantic poem, not so much.

Disagree. There's a poem I like called "The Lorelei" by Heinrich Heine that is very romantic, albeit in a depressed, pessimistic, German kind of way.

I know French gets a bad rep but I actually think it sounds polite and easy to listen to.

What I found frustrating with French is that if I got anywhere near the Frog Kingdom people would begin speaking French *exclusively*. No English, No German, so I was obliged to have to go back to the point-and-pantomime way of getting around. I learned a few words of French eventually but I still find the language annoying and difficult to pronounce.

Some of my favorite words are in German.

• Fallschirmjagergewehr
• Achtung
• Schnellfeuer
• Flammenwerfer
• Panzerschreck
• Untermensch
• Lugenpresse
• Schweinhund

Tell me you learned German by playing WWII games without saying it

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

oh that sucks, i hope that doesnt happen to me when I go there... ... although i kind of understand though, they want to practice their english too and they probably think you'll appreciate it on some level or that its a way to better connect with you. being spoken in german would be way more helpful though

I think if I were just a normal retard tourist, I'd appreciate it, but I really am not at all. I've spent half my life between Germany and the US and looks like that is not ending anytime soon.

It is if the situation were reversed, I'd just speak in whatever language they wanted since I know both. I'd like to speak German with them, but if they felt like they wanted to speak English and were in the US, not going to say no or continue to speak German with them if they clearly wanted to speak English.

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

Some of my favorite words are in German.

• Fallschirmjägergewehr
• Achtung
• Schnellfeuer
• Flammenwerfer
• Panzerschreck
• Untermensch
• Lügenpresse
• Schweinehund

FIFY.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Tell me you learned German by playing WWII games without saying it

Medal of Honor for days.

For people complaining about German sounding harsh, remember nobody knows shit about Polish because it’s frustrating, but it sounds like a cross between German and Russian but less melodic.

How do you pronounce the surname Szyszczakiewicz? Hint: Wojtek is pronounced like “Voy tech”

 

[Meat Target]

Medal of Honor for days.

For people complaining about German sounding harsh, remember nobody knows shit about Polish because it’s frustrating, but it sounds like a cross between German and Russian but less melodic.

How do you pronounce the surname Szyszczakiewicz? Hint: Wojtek is pronounced like “Voy tech”

Speaking Ukrainian isn't too hard. You just need to speak Russian and have a seizure at the same time.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Speaking Ukrainian isn't too hard. You just need to speak Russian and have a seizure at the same time.

I think Russia had an advantage in just going with the Cyrillic alphabet instead of torturing the Latin alphabet with custom diacritics

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I think Russia had an advantage in just going with the Cyrillic alphabet instead of torturing the Latin alphabet with custom diacritics

I sorta like Cyrillic. I am literate in it, but I still don't speak Russian. Russian, along with Lithuanian and Latvian, are just things on the procrastination list. I started all of them and then ??? I need to get back on it. All of them are personally very interesting to me for one reason or another.

 

[Hellfire Club]

i'm a great admirer of krankenhaus and krankenwagen

 

[Just A Fat Round Bird]

Es ist nur leider eine Schande, dass unsere schöne Sprache durch übermäßigen Gebrauch von Anglizismen immer mehr und mehr verschandelt wird. Aber ich nehme mal an dass es anderen Sprachen des "Westens", abseits der englischen, ähnlich geht.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

i'm a great admirer of krankenhaus and krankenwagen

Interesting thing is that they also use 'hospital'.

But out of dire personal experience, never mix these cognates up:

Medikamenten - Any kind of legal drug
Drogen - Street drugs

I got legit fucked over when I first moved to Germany because I didn't know the difference.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

That said, in normal speech, you sound like a angry retard.

t. someone who has only ever ironically listened to Hitler speeches and that one ancient meme video comparing German words with other European language equivalents.

German doesn't sound angry, German sounds gay. So gay in fact I rather chose French as a third language in school instead of German where almost everyone else would go, and my sentiment has not changed. Not that I like French of course, that language is reminiscent of what you'd get if a severely damaged premature tard baby miraculously made it to 70 years of age.

 

[WelperHelper99]

t. someone who has only ever ironically listened to Hitler speeches and that one ancient meme video comparing German words with other European language equivalents.

German doesn't sound angry, German sounds gay. So gay in fact I rather chose French as a third language in school instead of German where almost everyone else would go, and my sentiment has not changed. Not that I like French of course, that language is reminiscent of what you'd get if a severely damaged premature tard baby miraculously made it to 70 years of age.

I don't know if I cosign that man. I've heard my old man speak it since he used to live in Germany. Its very... phonetic. Harsh even.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

Naw, just the German schwanz

 

[SpergioLeonne]

I don't know if I cosign that man. I've heard my old man speak it since he used to live in Germany. Its very... phonetic. Harsh even.

Lots of abrupt consonants. If someone is just having a calm conversation it can go under the radar, but if they get excited it’s all Jah mein sturmbannenfuhrer

Also, relatable with the “heard when I was a kid” part but man.

My grandmother was my babysitter most of the time, and after my grandfather died, she fell into a bottle and stopped speaking English. My early childhood was full of getting yelled at in drunken Polish and all I remember of it is kapusta glowa means “cabbage head”

 

[Gargamel]

Frei giftgas fur alle transen! Heil Deutschland!

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Naw, just the German schwanz

Leider, mag ich die deutschsprachige Schwänzen. Ich hab einen Problem. Brauch wirklich hilfe damit.

 

[Stan]

I dunno about that, but I do know I like being spoken to in it. I really fucking hate it when a German speaker hears my accent, immediately assumes I am literally Br*tish (NEVER AMERICAN for some reason), and refuses from then on out to speak German with me. Like asshole, I am in your country, speak your goddamn language with me I spent literal decades of my life learning at this point with me.

I sometimes had this problem, I would usually tell them my foreign exchange program made me sign an agreement not to speak English during my time in the program. And while this was true, the rule was not strictly enforced. But in general, continuing to reply to English inquiries in German will eventually frustrate most German speakers enough to stop code-switching and they will just talk to you in German. IMO they're doing it because they think you have limited German skills, so if you can demonstrate proficiency they will stop doing this.