In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus

[emjay]

She has a beautiful voice ... but the German still sounds German, angular and glottal.

But what this vid shows too is (imho) that, of course, singers (and other poets) will "soften" up the language to make it appeal more. The "hard consonants" you mentioned ...she has softened them substantially, right?

@emjay
Abundance of rules of the german languages: If you ask a german schoolkid, any german schoolkid, they will tell you that all those rules arent the problem. Its the effing number of exceptions from those rules that drive em mad.

Board games:
Mühle (Cowboy checkers)
Halma, actually invented by an American
Mikado

Ah, I can definitely relate to that as well... the theory, that is the grammar and structure as you learn from the textbooks, basically represents the ideal, but it's never that simple is it? but to be fair it's pretty similar in English... lot of exceptions... for instance in England there are many place names that aren't pronounced anything like you'd expect from how they are spelt, like Leicester - pronounced Lester - and Worcester - pronounced kind of like 'wusster', as well many different sounds for a given ?diphthong in English like 'bough', 'bought', 'through' etc, . I don't really remember struggling learning these but it was a long time ago and I probably did at the time. So how do they teach things like verbs and their valencies in German schools, just by rote as lists, or just introduced gradually as they are needed?

As to the games, cool, thank you... this set... diese Spielesammlung... contains two of those games, Mühle and Mikado, so I'm looking forward to giving them a go... ich freue mich darauf, sie beide zu spielen

@John 6IX Breezy
German end English being similar: Of course they are. They share the same branch on the language tree, both being germanic languages.  If you go to northern Germany (coast), geographically closer to England, you will figure that it sounds even more like english.

As promised some saxon dialect. Flirting in german saxon. I just cant stop laughing at this. Whats you guys impression?

 @Thumpalumpacus as you may notice, all the hard "k"s have become soft "g"s  . "G"s even become "sh"s. Tiger -> "Deesher". Guttural "ch" become soft "sch". Nicht --> "neesh". Isnt it actually very "soft" overall? To me (and most if not all other Germans") its hilarious.

Well, she does seem a bit like a crazed stalker, lol, but apart from that, I'm all for softening some of those 'ch's... the ch sound, the 'ich-laut' is very hard for me to get right, as well as the ach-laut, though I think I'm getting better, and trying to be much more mindful about it rather than falling back into the easy but bad habit of basically pronouncing it 'sch' like you're saying she does. Both sounds have the mouth in completely different positions, so I'm just trying to be mindful of that, if nothing else. Basically it's going to be important to get it right if I want to be able to properly distinguish between eine Kirche, a church, and eine Kirsche, a cherry