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DooMer 4ever

Verderben, verdirbt, verdarb, hat verdorben

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Verderben, verdirbt, verdarb, hat verdorben

I have a test today in german and some of the words are really pretty, and look at this:

schreien, schreit, schrie, hat geschrien
schreiten, schreitet, schritt, ist geschritten
and 19 more starting with sch

how are you supposed to remember all of those!

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schr, schr, schr...
If you repeat it often enough your mouth will start to bleed. German doesn`t sound or talk pleasant at all. Also; it seems impossible to me to 'talk' german; all you can do is shout it.

You should learn dutch...
Dutch is german for people who don`t want to damage their own mouths or other peoples ears.

Related news:
I heard once the german language is full of "sad" sounds in contrast to the english which is full of "happy" sound. This is why the average englishmen is happier than the average german...
Yeah I don`t buy it either, but it helps to fill the reply... :)

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DooMer 4ever said:

Verderben, verdirbt, verdarb, hat verdorben

I have a test today in german and some of the words are really pretty, and look at this:

schreien, schreit, schrie, hat geschrien
schreiten, schreitet, schritt, ist geschritten
and 19 more starting with sch

how are you supposed to remember all of those!

You repeat them over and over until you can remember 'em by heart.
Keep a list of them, read the list over and over, turn away from the paper and repeat one line at a time, checking the list again after saying each line to see if you got it right.

Learning irregular verbs in foreign languages IS hard, live with it. Oh and English irregular verbs aren't any easier - I remember how much trouble my classmates had with the English verbs back in my regular school days.

schr, schr, schr...
If you repeat it often enough your mouth will start to bleed. German doesn`t sound or talk pleasant at all. Also; it seems impossible to me to 'talk' german; all you can do is shout it.

You should learn dutch...
Dutch is german for people who don`t want to damage their own mouths or other peoples ears.

Well Dutch ain't much better than German - it's different, but sure as Hell not better. The only reason why you think that German sounds like shit and doesn't talk good is because you ain't used to it.
If your argument was true, how the fuck come I think German sounds great? And mind you, I am not German.

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Actually I think the irregular verbs in english are much easier: there are less of them, only three and you remember most of them thanks to TV and games (oh, i forgot that in most of the european lands they dub the programmes in TV, which is ridiculous).

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DooMer 4ever said:

Actually I think the irregular verbs in english are much easier: there are less of them, only three and you remember most of them thanks to TV and games (oh, i forgot that in most of the european lands they dub the programmes in TV, which is ridiculous).

It may seem ridiculous to you because you are used to reading off subtitles, but it ain't ridiculous to people who aren't fast enough to perceive what it says in the subtitles because they didn't grow up with subtitles and it isn't ridiculous to those same people because they didn't grow up with English like you and I.
And you're plain wrong about the amount of English irregular verbs being smaller - I had a looong list of English irregular verbs, a lot of them didn't make much sense.

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dsm:
Well Dutch ain't much better than German - it's different, but sure as Hell not better. The only reason why you think that German sounds like shit and doesn't talk good is because you ain't used to it.
If your argument was true, how the fuck come I think German sounds great? And mind you, I am not German.


Entschuldigung, ruhig bitte; I never said it sounded "like shit", it just sounds so agressive to me. Sure it CAN sound cool (Rammstein), but I wouldn`t want to hear/ speak it every day.

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Today, when I was on the train, I noticed a couple of goodlooking women talking in a very strange language, it sounded Scandinavian. Reminded me of that elvish language from LOTR. I started appreciating it, but unfortunately, I couldn't understand a damn word of what they were saying.

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The same happens to me sometimes: whenever I see goodlooking women the sound just fades out...

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m0l0t0v said:

Entschuldigung, ruhig bitte; I never said it sounded "like shit", it just sounds so agressive to me. Sure it CAN sound cool (Rammstein), but I wouldn`t want to hear/ speak it every day.

Entschuldingung, aber ich hatte die Eindruck bekommen, dass du sehr aggressiv wirkte, deshalb hatte ich deinen 'post' als herablassend gegen die Deutsche Sprache gedeutet.

In English: Sorry, but I got the impression that you seemed rather aggressive, that's why I interpreted your post as condescending towards the German language.

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Heh.

Take a german sentence, replace every second word with the english word and you got dutch >:)

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boris said:

Heh.

Take a german sentence, replace every second word with the english word and you got dutch >:)

Add double vowels in addition to the above, THEN you got Dutch.

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I took Latin. I don't remember much of the grammar, but if I decided to take a second language it would be easier than if I hadn't taken Latin. Personally, I like the sound of Japanese, it seems like a language in which you can express mood with ease.

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Lord FlatHead said:

This is why German porn is so hilarious and revolting at the same time.

He knows too much; eliminate him.

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DarkWolf said:

I took Latin. I don't remember much of the grammar, but if I decided to take a second language it would be easier than if I hadn't taken Latin. Personally, I like the sound of Japanese, it seems like a language in which you can express mood with ease.

Sure, if you can manage to learn the language. I barely passed four terms of high-school Japanese, and I haven't retained any of it. Two sets of kana, both larger than the Roman alphabet, plus the exceedingly large set of kanji. Fortunately pronunciation is simpler than Western languages; you're limited to combinations of five vowel sounds and about a dozen consonant sounds. Sentence structure takes some geting used to, but it's pretty straightforward. And you're right, it is a very expressive language.

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IMJack said:

Sure, if you can manage to learn the language. I barely passed four terms of high-school Japanese, and I haven't retained any of it. Two sets of kana, both larger than the Roman alphabet, plus the exceedingly large set of kanji. Fortunately pronunciation is simpler than Western languages; you're limited to combinations of five vowel sounds and about a dozen consonant sounds. Sentence structure takes some geting used to, but it's pretty straightforward. And you're right, it is a very expressive language.


Yeah I read an introductory thing on Japanese and the written form seems kind of intimidating, but I might give it a shot anyway.

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While we're on the subject on foreign languages...

I've learned some of my Japanese from my parents, and I went to some private school to learn the basics on how to read and write japanese. It was annoying having to wake up every saturday at 7am to go to San Jose just to get to the damn school! Luckily, I quit this year, so I guess I'm happy about that.

If there were any Japanese classes at my high school, I'd take it. Actually, if taking a foreign language class was optional, then I'd definately not take a foreign class. Spanish sucks, but it's a little bit easier (although not by much) to learn that then Japanese. Hiragana and Katakana was pretty tricky to learn, but after 5 years, I got uses to it. Kanjis are very hard to memorize. The only ones I know how to read are dog, book, tree, bug, water, river, mountain, Japan, ... I think there were others that I knew well, but those are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head right now.

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I went out with the daughter of the manager of Sharp electronics in Japan , that was a fine introduction to the Japanese language :)

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üntenshclootenwootengööten!
Hey, at least it sounds a little like German :)

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DooMBoy said:

üntenshclootenwootengööten!
Hey, at least it sounds a little like German :)

The only German in that gibberish is the ü and the ö - like I indicated above, Dutch has double vowels, German doesn't. That stuff looks more Dutch to me than German, but even so, even half an eye tells me that there's no way that word is Dutch.
:-P

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