I mean I was planning to visit in the next couple of years anyway I guess…
Huh? Wo sind die posts? Where are they?
Obligatorisch: Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Oder ist das nur so ein Reddit-Ding?Sagen sie dreimal schnell hintereinander: Streichholzschächtelchen
Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid.
Schau in die Kommentare, ALLES Vollpfosten!
Wie Sie sehen, sehen Sie nichts.
I use catodon.social and it’s got a ton of German speaking people, and while Catodon is very very well designed it doesn’t have a translation option yet.
I was thinking about it for a while. The posts encouraged me. The prospect of possibly wanting to leave the US in the next year or two depending on things also makes me want to learn a second language.
1933: Moving to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
2025: Moving to Germany to escape Nazi US.
Come to Germany, we need more sysasmins (smart voters)
Deutsch ist gar nicht so schwierig. Versuch es doch einfach mal!
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Try a little less Chaplin, and you are on a good way.
Bloß nicht c/ich_iel besuchen. Zangendeutsch kann Einen verrückt machen.
War die erste Community, die ich blockiert hab. Erst auf .de, jetzt auf .org. So einen Blödsinn muss ich mir echt nicht geben.
Nah, "block instance"works just fine. I already took 4 years of Spanish as a kid and didn’t remember that, why add another language to suck at?
Maybe because 4 years aren’t much? It’s nice to be fluent in foreign languages, and known to be good for your brain (delaying / preventing Alzheimer’s for example)
I lived in Germany from '83 to '94, but I never did learn to speak much of it since I went to American schools. Apparently most Germans speak decent English now? That would have been nice back in the day!
English is on the curriculum of all schools as a mandatory subject, but learning it in school =/= speaking proficiency. That usually comes with a ton of practice, and not all that many of us are exposed to English on a daily basis, even less so in lower income strata.
I’ve just read that a lot lately, that most people speak English relatively proficiently there. Back in the 80s and 90s it was somewhat rare. Possibly the internet helped a bit.
The internet helps with reading/writing mostly, and that comes with the benefit of looking things up when needed, which you really can’t do in a normal conversation. But yeah it has most certainly improved. I think it’s now also mandatory as a first foreign language, back when I started high school in 1994 we were still given the option to start with French or Latin instead (with English as a mandatory second language from grade 7 then).
But don’t quote me on that, I haven’t had anything to do with the German school system after graduation, it’s mostly hearsay.
My phone translates anything on screen in more or less real time. If the post looks interesting I can read it no matter the language.
What phone is that?
I do the same thing with my Pixel, but I assume it’s all Android phones. I just hold down the power button on my phone for a second then click Translate. It works pretty well for most of the German memes.
OK, TIL, thanks! I just bought a new phone, so this is all new to me :)
Pixel phones have a “feature” by pressing the home button long (which usually activates the assistant) it will activate a sort of screen reader.
I started way before I came here but the posts are nice, the comments are really good cause they tend to be longer/more in depth
I haven’t seen a single one, so nicht ich.
A better reason to learn it is that anything you say in German sounds like swearing.
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
Too many Hollywood movies m3in Freund.
Yeah. Once I overheard someone chatting behind me while in a train. I knew it was in German because I’ve learnt some long time before. It was the cutest (presumably romantic) conversation I’ve ever even though I didn’t understand much. Before that I’ve always thought French sounded the nicest, but that conversation shattered my belief.
A while later, I went to Germany to visit friend. While at a museum I read out loud some descriptions on items there. He told me I spoke like in films, even like Hitler. Hearing him talking with family, it was very casual and there was no sudden change of intonation like in movies. I somehow realized stereotype in movies ruined my perspective on the language.
I recently started hearing playlists of French punk rock. I can confirm, if you don’t pay attention what they’re saying it sounds… German
La vache! La vache!
Holy heck that is an oooooold MAD-Magazine reference. xD Kudos my good sir!
An old Monty Python reference. 😀
Ich nicht.
I took spanish in school but if I had to do over would have likely done french but german is second choice.
I was learning it (super slowly, thanks ADHD) anyway, but it was when I finally read a 3-sentence long post and could read 90% of it without really thinking about it that I felt I was progressing at all
So of course I haven’t practiced in weeks now, fuuck
Don’t learn german. As a german I always feel sorry for people who learn this language just for 80 million old people ^^
Someone forgets the existence of other countries where people speak German
As a german I have to say learn whatever language you want, even if nobody speaks it.
Ok, I’m learning QBASIC
You should rather learn FORTRAN and make a lot of cash at some bank ;)
Most of the classic big financial tech mainframes actually run on COBOL, at least in Europe. Though even those are very slowly being replaced, mostly by Java. Still, freelancers with COBOL specialty do rake in huge sums. It’s not only about the rare tech skills ( COBOL isn’t worse or harder than other languages, it’s just old and thus simple), it’s about having those skills combined with a sufficiently high security clearance.
Oooops sorry, I meant COBOL
It’s a good thing I already know a little German!
Maybe I am missing a joke but that sounds very little like high german and more like a heavy accented or dialect version like swiss-german or austrian-german.
Its gibberish, supposed to be East German. It’s from Top Secret, still a cool movie