Wir haben Zuhausis, Gurke und Mais, order so. Keine ahnung ich spreche kein Deutsch
INTERESTING.
ÄUẞERST INTERESSANT.
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German has similar enough rules to English that I treat it as a puzzle and just try to decode the memes. It’s super fun!
Schafenfreude
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Ah the innocent naivety of a beginner speaker. You start off in A1 thinking „oh this isn’t so bad“ and then reality hits. Diplomats rate German as harder to learn for native English speakers than any of the Romance languages.
If you just give up on gendered nouns it’s not so bad.
Yeah, getting to a decent, conversational level of German isn’t that bad, but I think getting properly fluent is really hard
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I wouldn’t dare try to speak it cause I’d fuck it up really bad, but I’m getting to the point I can read it or understand it spoken pretty well. Rammstein and eisbrecher helped a lot, but lemmy has really helped expand my understanding.
The learning curve is quite steep, but it’s like a reverse ski jump in that it’s suuuper easy at first followed by a “well, shit”
Seconded, context clues and a lot of what Tom Scott refers to as the rules of conversation make memes in general a lot less difficult to interpret than a standard conversation.
Here’s a good Rob Words Video about reading German as a (native) English speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebSZrHmsI4
I like to think of German more like Spanish because of all the irregular verbs.
Ich bin ein bisschen Deutschlander myself.
Klingt legitim, aber ich glaube deine Umlaute sind aufgebraucht. Hier, nimm ein paar von meinen: Äää Üüü Ööö
Interesting.
ich brauche kein Umlaute. Alle meine Zuhausis sind Old-Skool, und wir schreiben Aeaeae Ueueue Oeoeoe
Ich lese die als 🚓🚑🚒
Krankenwagen sind da 🚨🚨
Ich bin ein Berliner
!ich_iel@feddit.org for anyone interessiert in unsere Maimais
Nah “maimai” is a way some people say “meme” in deutsch ahah
Same, but the posts, which for some reason I laugh! Germans are masterminds on this.
It’s even worse when you know a little bit of German.
Words you Understand [Incomprehensible German Internet Speak] Words you Understand [Incomprehensible German Politics Ref]
To be fair, most languages end up using English words for stuff that’s tech related. For example, I’ve been learning Italian and actually laughed out loud when I learned that the Italian word for coach (which seems to be used for both buses and trains) is “Pullman” it gets even more obvious when it’s a computer-related technology
Probably next year I might try to learn a bit of German because I keep encountering Germans writing in German on various parts of the internet and it would be fun to join the club (plus I’d love to visit Germany sometime so that would remove one barrier for sure)
no better time to lernen
I wonder how long it would take to learn German through osmosis
I’ve been living in Germany for 3 months and somehow it feels like I understand less every day.
So yeah a while
Just make sure you use the joke “ich verstehe nur Bahnhof”. The locals love that.
Also if you see a swiss person, always greet them with “Gruezi”. They love that too.
Usually I just make an audible sigh when the train is delayed. Seems to make me blend in well enough
I can’t believe you’ve mastered German in just 3 months
Depends entirely on how much you’re exposed to every day.
Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD
Willkommensbananen stehen bereit.
This comment section is now … germany?
Much of it isn’t real German, its English directly translated as a joke. You’ll often see Ichich’s mentioned for example.
Es ist entweder “michmich” or “maimai”, ich hab noch nie “Ichich” gelesen :D
Ach Scheiße, du bist korrect
I know rusty Duolingo German so I get like 12%, but I’m occasionally able to piece enough together to be able to chuckle along proudly with whatever shit it ends up being about
Itchy eel is the best!
I use the autotanslate on my phone to read the posts, feels like bringing the world closer since 90% of the memes are super relatable.
Big mood, I love that me_irl seems to transcend language barriers.
I saw a really good one the other day of Mr. Robot, where the only two phrases I recognized were “Hackerman” and “Dailymotion” and it still made me snort laugh lol
me blocking the community since i can actually read it
I don’t have the heart to do that.
