Hello from Germany

[pocaracas]

Siema, siema :p

That's all I got.
It's what your people keep saying over chat on World of Tanks.... I'm guessing it means "hello" or something similar....

I also know that you guys have declinations, that's even more messed up than german.

[Dystopia]

Rozumiem trochę (I'm using google translator)

[Norman Humann]

That's all I got.
It's what your people keep saying over chat on World of Tanks.... I'm guessing it means "hello" or something similar....

I also know that you guys have declinations, that's even more messed up than german.

Yes, it's kind of like "sup".

Yes. There are 7 cases in both singular and plural for each noun. And complicated conjugation, too. And weird otrography.

Rozumiem trochę (I'm using google translator)

Spróbuj wymówić, a nie googlem szpanujesz :p

[GermanAtheist]

Wilkommen. Dein Englisch ist besser als mein Deutch.

I hope I just welcomed you and told you your English was better than my German but I could have just had a "Ich bin ein Berliner" moment.

Your sentence totally makes sense except for two minor and irrelevant spelling mistakes.
btw it is an urban legend that Kennedy allegedly said "I am a jelly doughnut" in German with "Ich bin ein Berliner". I heard from it the first time on the internet from Americans. Most Germans don't even know this urban legend. German is sometimes quite subtle.
Some guys think that Kennedy should have said "Ich bin Berliner" instead of "Ich bin ein Berliner". Both sentences are grammatically correct but they differ in their meaning "Ich bin Berliner" means "I am a citizen of Berlin" and that's wrong because Kennedy never was a citizen of Berlin whereas "Ich bin ein Berliner" could also mean "I belong to the Berliners" or "I am feeling with the Berliners". In this context none German would think of jelly doughnuts.

For sure Kennedy had an excellent translator. Maybe a native speaker.

I can only imagine our spelling rules drove you insane? Or what did you think was the biggest challenge in learning our language?

In fact English spelling rules are not consistent but I never had problems with spelling. Neither in German nor English nor French.
For me the biggest challenge in learning English are the tenses. Especially the progressive tenses because we don't have them in German. I often don't know when I have to use which tense. In German we only have 6 tenses and in English you have 15 tenses approximately.

For me, the biggest challenge in learning yours was the masculine-feminine-neuter rules for nouns, the most confusing of which was how male chest was feminine (die Brust) and the female chest was masculine (der Bosen). Memorization and repetition were the only way I could learn each noun.

Yes that's what i often hear about German. The grammatical gender doesn't make any sense and I think the articles are the most challenging thing for English speakers learning German in general.
English only has 3 articles. The, a and an. We have 12 articles
ein, eine, einer, eines, einen, einem, der, die, das, dem, den and des. With articles the meaning is changing. For example "Ich gehe auf die Straße" means "I go to the street" and "Ich gehe auf der Straße" means "I go on the street".
I think that is really confusing for non-natives.
I also speak low German and some Dutch. There are only two genders but the woman is masculine in Low German^^.

Anyway, welcome from Jesusland America, the last developed nation on earth that stubbornly clings to this iron-age religion.

^^
For me America is the land of extremes.
It is very advanced (good Scientists, high tech...) and backwards (religious fanatism) at the same time.

[pocaracas]

Hehe... we should get a "Babel" thread where each of us writes in our native language...

[Norman Humann]

Hehe... we should get a "Babel" thread where each of us writes in our native language...

Yes! I'll go do it!

[Void]

Greetings Germany. This is Norway talking. Happy to see you on board. I'm looking forward to reading about your quantum mechanics. I am very fascinated by the subject, but I have never studied it.

Also your English seem very well good enough to be understood.

[JesusHChrist]

Welcome GermanAtheist to the forums.

Your English is fine, better than some examples we get from native speakers, who can toss together a word salad of truly epic proportions, and yet say absolutely nothing. Usually there will be a "Jesus", "but the Bible in verse blah blah says!", "science is stupid!" or some such embedded in the word salad. It's OK to skim over it. We all do.

I hope you like BBQ baby. It's always on the menu.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Hey welcome man

[DeistPaladin]

For me America is the land of extremes.

From my perspective as a forty-something, it seems to be getting worse. Perhaps it's just an early onset of me being a grumpy old man but I don't think so.

Fox "News" (or as I like to call it, the Pravda of the Republican Party) accompanied by hate talk radio and the corporate takeover of the remaining media has created a significant voting bloc that, I say without exaggeration, has completely lost touch with reality. A steady diet of propaganda will distort politics in any society and ours is clearly no exception.

The good news is that our fascists are too stupid and too crazy to effectively govern. This means that even when they get into power, all they do is sabotage everything and so they probably won't be a threat to the rest of the world.