i hope you tend to agree that there are more famous german writers than i many other countries. Like, name some spanish poets known throughout the world. There aren't many things from the past that Germans can be proud of, but its poets, philosophists and scientists are definately one of them.

He told that german is the language of the talkers and thinkers and that is not totally true, only that. I know that there are many great german poets, philosophists and scientists. All of us have studied or readen some of their books !.

kabuto

27 Posts

March 04 2005 00:09 GMT

#104

ive been learning german for many years now, and i fully agree that is a fuckin complicated language. its difficult to pick the most annoying part of it, but the huge sentences in which the verb only shows up at the very end of the sentence is one of the safest choices.

I have less problems understanding texts in english that in german, even though the amount of german ive studied is much greater to the english :D

Schnake

Germany2819 Posts

March 04 2005 00:16 GMT

#105

Hey, as this is a thread about the German language, maybe everybody should show off his German skills! Lasst uns doch ein wenig Deutsch reden.

rplant

United States1178 Posts

March 04 2005 00:21 GMT

#106

On March 03 2005 17:15 Ack1027 wrote:
students who studied hebrew scored highest on SATs and other standardized tests [ though this doesn't mean much and those kids were probably smart/jewish already ]

Hahhaha, lmao. "those kids were probably smart/jewish already" haha <3

{ToT}Strafe

Thailand7026 Posts

March 04 2005 00:25 GMT

#107

On March 04 2005 09:09 kabuto wrote:
ive been learning german for many years now, and i fully agree that is a fuckin complicated language. its difficult to pick the most annoying part of it, but the huge sentences in which the verb only shows up at the very end of the sentence is one of the safest choices.

I have less problems understanding texts in english that in german, even though the amount of german ive studied is much greater to the english :D

yeah it shows

Luhh

Sweden2974 Posts

March 04 2005 00:54 GMT

#108

Comparing other languages to english is not really fair because it's impossible in todays civilization not to come in contact with english nearly every day.

Apart from being a farily easy language, the exposure to it and spread of the language makes it even easier to learn.

jacen

Austria3644 Posts

March 04 2005 01:34 GMT

#109

On March 04 2005 09:16 Schnake wrote:
Hey, as this is a thread about the German language, maybe everybody should show off his German skills! Lasst uns doch ein wenig Deutsch reden.

mit dia red i gor nix!

8882

2718 Posts

March 04 2005 01:53 GMT

#110

On March 04 2005 05:21 InFiNitY[pG] wrote:
While I agree that german is very hard to learn, I'd kindly ask you to stop with all those unqualified comments. You cannot judge a language unless you know it really really well, which means almost perfectly written and spoken. 7 years of classes in school is "nothing" when you're learning a difficult language, it's especially funny when people try to prove why the german language is stupid by giving an example and then making like 20 mistakes in a 4 word sentence.

The fact that you can make so many mistakes is the problem.

Each verb has 7? things you should take into consideration (person, time, mode?(order, sentence, "question", wondering..) - I think 7, because there are 7 in Polish and the verbs are similar in some ways.
There are also 7cases in Polish (1unused), but they are easier to use IMO, because they help to reduce the amount of pronouns (look at, listen to etc)

A funny example was given to me by my french teacher. A special type of window in France is called le wasistdas. "was ist das?" is german for "what's that?" so apparently some german guy came over to France and looked out of the window asking what it was or maybe what he was looking at through the window.

hehe, in Polish there is a slang term used to call gadgets, small tools etc wihajster - wie heisst er

On March 04 2005 06:29 InFiNitY[pG] wrote:

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uhm no, there's only he,she and it. Either way, of course it may sound funny that girl has a neutral article if in your language there's a rule that only objects have neutral articles. From a german's point of view you could say French is stupid because girl and cow are both female, isn't that disrespectful for the girl to be comnpared with a cow? same argument and just as dumb as the one given by Twain.

I think he meant plural. Some words are always in plural.

I still prefer to learn German than French