Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: December 13, 2024, 12:54 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Hello from Germany
#21
RE: Hello from Germany
(March 13, 2015 at 9:24 am)QuarkDriven Wrote: Welcome! I am new here also. Your English is better than you think, at least when it comes to writing it. Learning a new language is never easy! Keep at it! Smile

You may notice my user name comes from Quantum Mechanics, although I know next to nothing about the subject! LOL. I am currently reading Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" and think its pretty cool that we know the smallest particles are quarks within the electrons...
QuarkDriven  
   KCCO
North NJ l USA l Earth
Milky Way l The Universe
Reply
#22
RE: Hello from Germany
Welcome aboard!
Your english is good enough, so just keep doing what you're doing and we'll understand you.
At least, it's better than my german.

(March 13, 2015 at 6:28 am)GermanAtheist Wrote: I work as an retailer in Saturn and I like computer games.

How's the clientele in Saturn? The last ship we sent that way is still on its way... and has been for a few months.

Streaming stuff must get a hell of a lag! Tongue
Reply
#23
RE: Hello from Germany
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.

I'm probably one of few Americans who even realizes that President Kennedy went to Berlin and announced "I am a jelly-filled doughnut" in their language. The Germans are so polite. They just smiled and nodded because they knew what he was trying to say. Having visited Austria and southern Germany, they seem to appreciate the effort if you try to speak their language.

We don't start early enough in America in our half-hearted attempts to teach foreign languages. We don't begin until high school (unser Gymnasium) and by then it's really too late. I struggled with it for four years under a native speaking teacher (when she was a child, her family escaped Berlin before the wall was built and came to America). I wouldn't say I was completely fluent but I did achieve that point where you can effectively think in the other language.

When you first start learning another language, there's the cumbersome thought process of hearing the other person, translating, thinking of your response and finally translating that. By the fourth year, we were reading German literature and conducting our discussions entirely in German. I remember one day when I exited the classroom and a friend of mine came up to me in the hall and spoke to me, and how just for a split-second I did a double-take, as in "Wie? Ach ja, mine natiev Sprache". ("What? Oh yes, my native language").

But that was 25 years ago and I've forgotten nearly everything. I suppose if I worked at it, I could regain that level of skill in speaking the language.

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

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.

Anyway, welcome from Jesusland America, the last developed nation on earth that stubbornly clings to this iron-age religion.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
...      -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
...       -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
Reply
#24
RE: Hello from Germany
Hello! Welcome to the forums!

(March 13, 2015 at 6:42 am)Alex K Wrote: Noooo! impossible!
I'm the only German in the Village!!!

But what about Vosur?

I'm still the only Pole here, so hang on to your cars, gentlemen.
Reply
#25
RE: Hello from Germany
What is pole? Polish?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

Reply
#26
RE: Hello from Germany
Owszem :p
Reply
#27
RE: Hello from Germany
(March 13, 2015 at 10:02 am)Norman Humann Wrote: I'm still the only Pole here, so hang on to your cars, gentlemen.

Speaking of "Ich bin ein Berlinner" moments, I had heard one of our former presidents, Jimmy Carter, came to Poland once and attempted to say "I love the Polish people" in Polish but wound up saying something a little embarrassingly obscene. Do you happen to know if this story is true?
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
...      -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
...       -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
Reply
#28
RE: Hello from Germany
(March 13, 2015 at 10:05 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Speaking of "Ich bin ein Berlinner" moments, I had heard one of our former presidents, Jimmy Carter, came to Poland once and attempted to say "I love the Polish people" in Polish but wound up saying something a little embarrassingly obscene. Do you happen to know if this story is true?

From what I gather, yes, it is true. Though from what I read it was his translator who messed up. Apparently he translated that the president "desires Polish people" and "abandons the US to come to Poland".
Reply
#29
RE: Hello from Germany
polish?
Siema!
Reply
#30
RE: Hello from Germany
Siema, siema :p
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Greetings from Germany Vosur 33 7423 November 6, 2014 at 9:32 pm
Last Post: Losty
Thumbs Up Hello Hello loush 17 6709 December 13, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Last Post: theophilus
  Hello hello! DgyJff 8 3952 August 30, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Last Post: RachelSkates
  From the UK/Germany SonicSnail 5 1992 March 22, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Last Post: WWLD



Users browsing this thread: 10 Guest(s)