Comments on: Don’t learn German

By: Klaus Horky

Klaus Horky — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:05:44 +0000

I immigrated to Canada 44 years ago from Austria. Last yar my 25 year old Canadian born son immigrated to Vienna. Now I talk to him in German via Skype.

After 30 minutes or so we both are mentally exhausted. He amazes me all the time how much he has learned in six months.

Since I have had very little opportunity to keep up my German, I often have trouble to find the correct German word. Because he is a fast typist his Google machine translate everything faster than I can think.

This way we both exercise our respective German tongue muscle.

All I can say, it would be dull world if the whole world spoke only one language.

If German gives you too much trouble, move to Japan, they love speaking English and with your natural gift of learning another culture you’ll be right at home within 30 years for sure!

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:14:02 +0000

Deutsche Sprache schwere Sprache

Thumbs up, John!

By: Lise

Lise — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:19:36 +0000

Unrumpf´s favourite German word actually is a composite of two words: Europameisterschaftsfußballfernübertragungskameraanalysegerätsschraubenzieher and
Ösenerweiterungsnippelfarbenschaubglasdeckelpoliturentferner.

By: Unrumpf

Unrumpf — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:53:01 +0000

My favourite german word is Europameisterschaftsfußballfernübertragungskameraanalysegerätsschraubenzieherösenerweiterungsnippelfarbenschaubglasdeckelpoliturentferner. Try to express a simple thing like this in english.
This word is also perfect for games like Hangman (Galgenraten) and Whispers (Stille Post)

By: Lise

Lise — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:37:26 +0000

And that isn´t all: I was born in Berlin, left the country at the age of 11, returned definitely after 68 years, only to find that the German (Hochdeutsch) that I speak is not exactly favoured in Bavaria where they speak “Fränkisch”. This is one of the multiple dialects of German “Länder” (states) and to me after 4 years of living here, still sounds like Japanese which I do not speak. By the way the word SCHIFFFAHRT mentioned in the article was spelled with five letters “f” when only 3 are needed. And I forgot to mention that all my life I spelled my name Lise, only to come back “home” to find out I figure as Liese and have the corresponding ID.

By: John

John — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:56:39 +0000

Try learning Hungarian. Its a language invented by aliens!

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:24:06 +0000

Please watch this. The geman approach on the phone. LOL…LOL…

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:30:01 +0000

Do you know who’s the biggest enemy of the germans? The (TH)

1 - Nothing = nossing

2 - Everything = everyssing

4 - The world = seword

Pretty funny!!!

By: peter wilczewski

peter wilczewski — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:25:44 +0000

Hi,thee(richtig geschrieben:ich meine die alte englische Form für “DU”)
i (still) didn´t read the texture above-but(aber) ´but i´m reading the book,at this moment i finished page 143.THANK YOU !!!IT IS MAVERLESS!!!
i´m writing this text only with the knowledge of the “Oxford”-english ive learned at secondary technical school 43 years int the past.
of course-this is “british” understatement.i spent a lot of my holidays in england,wales and scotland—and—OF COURSE!-in EIRE:Ireland could be much more cosier,calmer,a.s.o.-without those”ami´s ” who tells everyone
who wants to know or(MOSTLY)not :”when Cromwell came my forefathers
had to leave”.Be Sure:NOTHING FOR UNGOOD Peter

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:07:39 +0000

A lot of Germans think that English is easy when actually it can be quite difficult to speak well. Most cannot speak English well. There are so many exceptions to the rules which makes the language difficult, whereas German has a clear set of grammar rules - learn the rules and you can speak.
Because English is a language spoken all over the world, the motivation and necessity is greater than say Americans learning to speak German. If, however, German was the world language, you would have a lot of learners/speakers of this language.