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just remember that ich_iel has a lot of fun with literal translations of english words which can lead to very weird german.
Nur erinnere, dass ich_iel ein Los des Spaßes mit literarischen Übersetzungen von englischen Wörtern hat, was zu seltsamen Deutsch bleien kann.
lmao bleien
This will all just lead to an increase in suffering 😢
Dies wird alles gerecht bleien zu einem innenschmalz in Leiderei 😢
nie.
please be advised that speaking german properly is super fucking hard compared to learning many other languages, and you don't need german in germany for the most part.
when I'm in germany I speak my shitty, broken german and they respond to me in english
That's when you double down and tell them in German that you don't speak English. That'll confuse 'em.
I, a white man, would love to learn to speak German with an Indian accent just to really fuck with 'em
They probably speak English with you because your German is not sufficiently efficient.
My favorite phrase to use in all foreign countries is "Please forgive me, I am American." It gets a laugh out of almost everyone even when terribly butchered in any language and most people will then attempt English for you.
Except Parisians, who do not care. I think they would prefer I point and grunt to trying either English or my awful French.
Viel Spaß dabei!
I copy that and will increase production, if you ask I translate, you're welcome.
Sincerely, RatherMaybe.
Ich nicht.
Does anyone know what is the deal with the images (I assume it’s some kind of German meme) of people or characters with instant ramen on their head?
The noodles are just my signature. So just ignore the noodels. They have nothing todo with the meme directly. I just place them on the head of whoever in the meme is me.
Might be the wrong answer, but I think it's kind of a signature of the creator... Sth with insta in his name
Ding ding ding You are Correct!! :D All the memes with instant noodels are from me. Its my signature. :)
I just blocked the communities 😅
du kannst rennen, aber du kannst dich nicht verstecken!
God bless you?
ich brauche nicht gottes segen, das blut der verdammten allein genügt!
Ich würde mich auch blockieren.
I was thinking about it for a while. The posts encouraged me. The prospect of possibly wanting to leave the US in the next year or two depending on things also makes me want to learn a second language.
SPRICH
Number of German-language posts? I'm somehow not seeing those. I am however a native speaker of German already, so no need anymore to learn it.
Deutsch ist gar nicht so schwierig. Versuch es doch einfach mal!
Bloß nicht c/ich_iel besuchen. Zangendeutsch kann Einen verrückt machen.
I'd be interested in learning, because German is the biggest contributor to modern English along with French. Of course the split happened long, long ago, but still...
It would have to be a couple years though, after I (knock on wood) am done getting to about B2/C1 on French.
What are you subscribed to, to be seeing that many?
I think I've seen a couple tops in recent memory.
Depends on how you sort. If you sort by "top of last 1/6 hours" you will see lots of stuff from other languages.
I browse by All with the Hot sort.
I see German posts constantly. I think because they might not be language tagged correctly?
Not making the language tag mandatory is one of the bigger lost chances of Lemmy. I can't even select it in my client.
I find it hard to imagine learning a language that I don't foresee myself using at least once a week IRL
I've tried learning French and German but honestly I very rarely encounter speakers of those languages and can count on one hand the number that didn't also speak English.
I've been learning Spanish though for nearly a year to great success.
Don't learn german. As a german I always feel sorry for people who learn this language just for 80 million old people ^^
As a german I have to say learn whatever language you want, even if nobody speaks it.
I was learning it (super slowly, thanks ADHD) anyway, but it was when I finally read a 3-sentence long post and could read 90% of it without really thinking about it that I felt I was progressing at all
So of course I haven't practiced in weeks now, fuuck
A better reason to learn it is that anything you say in German sounds like swearing.
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
