Keep at it and you'll find that you're starting to learn the language. I had a base of it thanks to Rammstein but I realized a while back that I can get a gist of it, I've never taken a class or done Rosetta Stone or any apps like it but I'm slowly learning German by exposure. Reading only. So far it only works on intake, it's not like I can speak it or write it but I'm starting to understand it if I read or hear it.
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Sehr gut! Viel Erfolg noch! Und immer dran denken: Frinke das Wurrenwanner!
Danke! Understood all but the end. Was ist "wurrenwanner"?
Ah I was making a joke but now it just seems mean. The last sentence was gibberish, don't worry about it :3
Lol hey I'm not mad. Why not harmlessly pull someone's chain a bit?
As someone who speaks german for 40 years: i have no idea
🤷🏻 Kai ahnig
Vermutli so was wie s chuchichästli, odr so…
Big mood, I love that me_irl seems to transcend language barriers.
I saw a really good one the other day of Mr. Robot, where the only two phrases I recognized were "Hackerman" and "Dailymotion" and it still made me snort laugh lol
I have no idea why ich_iel posts keep appearing in my feed, but it's kind of nostalgic for me since I grew up in Germany. I never learned the language, but sometimes I can get the gist of it through context and the few words I do know.
Much of it isn't real German, its English directly translated as a joke. You'll often see Ichich's mentioned for example.
Es ist entweder "michmich" or "maimai", ich hab noch nie "Ichich" gelesen :D
Ach Scheiße, du bist korrect
German has similar enough rules to English that I treat it as a puzzle and just try to decode the memes. It's super fun!
Seconded, context clues and a lot of what Tom Scott refers to as the rules of conversation make memes in general a lot less difficult to interpret than a standard conversation.
Ah the innocent naivety of a beginner speaker. You start off in A1 thinking „oh this isn’t so bad“ and then reality hits. Diplomats rate German as harder to learn for native English speakers than any of the Romance languages.
If you just give up on gendered nouns it's not so bad.
Yeah, getting to a decent, conversational level of German isn't that bad, but I think getting properly fluent is really hard
Ich bin flüssig auf Deutsch
I wouldn't dare try to speak it cause I'd fuck it up really bad, but I'm getting to the point I can read it or understand it spoken pretty well. Rammstein and eisbrecher helped a lot, but lemmy has really helped expand my understanding.
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I like to think of German more like Spanish because of all the irregular verbs.
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Ich bin ein bisschen Deutschlander myself.
Klingt legitim, aber ich glaube deine Umlaute sind aufgebraucht. Hier, nimm ein paar von meinen: Äää Üüü Ööö
ich brauche kein Umlaute. Alle meine Zuhausis sind Old-Skool, und wir schreiben Aeaeae Ueueue Oeoeoe
Ich lese die als 🚓🚑🚒
Interesting.
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Wir haben Zuhausis, Gurke und Mais, order so. Keine ahnung ich spreche kein Deutsch
It’s even worse when you know a little bit of German.
Words you Understand [Incomprehensible German Internet Speak] Words you Understand [Incomprehensible German Politics Ref]
To be fair, most languages end up using English words for stuff that's tech related. For example, I've been learning Italian and actually laughed out loud when I learned that the Italian word for coach (which seems to be used for both buses and trains) is "Pullman" it gets even more obvious when it's a computer-related technology
Probably next year I might try to learn a bit of German because I keep encountering Germans writing in German on various parts of the internet and it would be fun to join the club (plus I'd love to visit Germany sometime so that would remove one barrier for sure)
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Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD
Willkommensbananen stehen bereit.
Ich lerne Deutsch. Und ich habe einen Monat Gebraucht, um zu verstehen, was "iel" bedeutet.
Ich kann nicht Deutsch sprechen.
Well clearly you can, ein bisschen
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Edit: who am I kidding, I love it
no better time to lernen
Same, but the posts, which for some reason I laugh! Germans are masterminds on this.
I wonder how long it would take to learn German through osmosis
Depends entirely on how much you're exposed to every day.
I've been living in Germany for 3 months and somehow it feels like I understand less every day.
So yeah a while
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Interesting indeed, ja
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