I mean I was planning to visit in the next couple of years anyway I guess…

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Maybe I am missing a joke but that sounds very little like high german and more like a heavy accented or dialect version like swiss-german or austrian-german.

  • EherVielleicht@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I copy that and will increase production, if you ask I translate, you’re welcome.

    Sincerely, RatherMaybe.

    • Rednax@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Lemmy tags all posts with the language they are written in. Most clients filter any posts not of your selected languages by default. Hence, there is a good chance you never notice German posts.

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    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

    • sparkle@lemm.eeCymraeg
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      2 months ago

      Compared to other languages… If those other languages are Romantic, North Germanic, Dutch, Afrikaans, or Frisian. A majority of other languages are typically considered more difficult for people who only speak English.

      That being said, I found Russian way easier than German at first, but that quickly stops being the case… German shares a lot of semantic/syntactic similarities with English so you can reasonably assume that a lot of German constructions will easily translate to English, for Russian though it’s more unfamiliar and you have to put more effort into thinking Russian-y. The main thing that made German way harder at first is German declensions… ugh… Russian has a complex declension system but it’s extremely regular, while German declensions are pretty irregular and the declension of articles is especially bad because their forms overlap a lot. Adjective declension is similarly bad. German word order also fucked with me a lot but it’s decently rigid so you get it quickly.

    • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s when you double down and tell them in German that you don’t speak English. That’ll confuse 'em.

  • Codex@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been learning German for a few years (very slowly) now with Duolingo. I see a lot of Spanish posts too (especially on masto) and have been enjoying how the fediverse encourages me to work on my languages.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    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 don’t also speak English.

    I’ve been learning Spanish though for nearly a year to great success.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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      2 months ago

      Du muss nicht unbedingt sprechen um eine Sprache zu benutzen. Du kannst auch z.b. Medien anschauen auf der Sprache, oder lesen. Das letzte Mal, dass ich jemanden zum Englisch sprechen hatte war auf einer Hochzeit, ist also auch eigentlich sehr selten.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        2 months ago

        Por supuesto que si, tienes razón. Pero si solamente quieres aprender un idioma, cualquier idioma, generalmente es mejor si tienes un uso práctico.

        Pero si tienes ganas de aprender un idioma particular, por favor aprendes de todos modos si tienes un usó o no.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Do people use language settings? I have mine set to include German so I don’t know if turning it off would actually filter out many of these posts.