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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!
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
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.
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 🚓🚑🚒
Krankenwagen sind da 🚨🚨
Wir haben Zuhausis, Gurke und Mais, order so. Keine ahnung ich spreche kein Deutsch
INTERESTING.
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]
I wonder how long it would take to learn German through osmosis
I’ve been living in Germany for 3 months and somehow it feels like I understand less every day.
So yeah a while
Just make sure you use the joke “ich verstehe nur Bahnhof”. The locals love that.
Also if you see a swiss person, always greet them with “Gruezi”. They love that too.
If you grew up speaking English, you already kind of understand German.
You might understand some words, but grammar wise German is much more complex. This is due to the nature of our language where every noun has a gender and the fact, that we can chain words together to create new super long words, that are quite hard to understand/translate.
🚨 Dative has entered the premises 🚨
Me reading the posts on ich_iel, fluent in germanWhat are German libs like
they call themselves “leftists” and lash out when you say something that goes against the state doctrine e.g. pointing out fascism in ukraine, the genocide in gaza, pointing out severe problems with the green party, not supporting the militarization and much much more.
