German is a beautiful language.

[gun sane]

Won what? Yeah.. you won the lottery with Obama.. :)

 

Autsch! Sie haben Recht. Ich würde Merkel über Obama jeden möglichen Tag dauern.

[LagerHead]

Obama hat keine Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaensmuetze. 

[K191145]

Won what? Yeah.. you won the lottery with Obama.. :)

I'm sure most all Germans today are glad they didn't win, i'm a redneck southener and i'm glad we didn't win in 1860-1865, a war that should have never been fought in the first place.

[K191145]

I'm sure most all Germans today are glad they didn't win, i'm a redneck southener and i'm glad we didn't win in 1860-1865, a war that should have never been fought in the first place.

That being said, if there's a next time it won't be about succeeding from the United States of America, it will be about saving the USA from the Neo-Marxists.

Edited July 26, 2013 by K191145

[JAB]

There is just something fitting about the term 'Rathaus', considering the place to which that term applies.

 

I took German when I was at UTK many years ago. Jetz, spreche und verstehe Ich nur ein bisschen.  (I probably butchered that.)  I actually love the language.  In fact, one semester German wouldn't work with my schedule so I thought about switching to French.  I took one semester of French and realized that I despised it.  Why anyone would say that French is a beautiful language is beyond me - I think, when spoken properly with the right accent, etc. it sounds like the speaker just smelled something nasty and is about to puke.

 

To me, German just sounds 'strong', not unpleasant.  I did, however, have a German instructor who once said that the most effective 'cussers' on Earth are pissed-off German grandmothers.

 

Of course, without German we wouldn't have English as we know it and English is, largely, a Germanic language.  Heck, if it hadn't been for those danged Normans in 1066, we'd likely pretty much still speak a recognizable dialect of German.  In fact, the similarity of many words to English words (due to the English word having derived from the German word) interfered with my ability to properly spell some English words for a time - I'd keep trying to spell the word like it is spelled in German.

Edited July 26, 2013 by JAB

[JAB]

When I first got to the States and I had a really bad  German accent People used to say that they loved listening to me talk. Now I have somewhat of a TN accent and  most people cannot tell I am German..

Now that I have a German friend here and we talk in German all the time the accent is coming back.. Its rather funny because she is from southern Germany and her accent is really bad

 

I was born in LaFayette, Georgia and we lived in Menlo, Georgia at the time.  My dad grew up mostly on the Georgia side of Lookout Mountain and most of his family live in Northern Georgia and Alabama.  We moved to East Tennessee when I was about three years old.  Folks might not realize how different the accent is in that region (especially in some of the more rural 'pockets') from the one most commonly heard in East Tennessee but it is.

 

I have heard that many of your 'patterns' are developed by the time you are three years old and I believe it, at least to an extent.  Even though I pretty much have an East Tennessee accent, if I spend a few days around my kin from Georgia, I will fall right into speaking with the same accent they have just as naturally as you please.  In fact, even though I am not doing it on purpose, the accent will be so pronounced that even I notice it.

 

Back when I was taking German in college, I actually felt like I was pretty good at speaking 'standard' German.  One day, however, an instructor played sound bytes for us of people speaking in the various dialects (Bavarian, Austrian, etc.) and I couldn't understand a darned thing they were saying.

Edited July 26, 2013 by JAB