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[number21 3]

I visited southern Germany/Austria in high school like 13 years ago. I thought it was great! Very clean and friendly. We were allowed out as high schoolers at night in Munich. Ein Mädchen hit on me in a bar, but I had no idea what she was saying.

I would love to go back sometime.

[RecLeagueHero 0]

I visited southern Germany/Austria in high school like 13 years ago. I thought it was great! Very clean and friendly. We were allowed out as high schoolers at night in Munich. Ein Mädchen hit on me in a bar, but I had no idea what she was saying.

I would love to go back sometime.

Just so you know: in German the word "madchen" does mean girl, but the reason it's "ein" (masc/neut) instead of "eine" (feminine) is because it refers specifically to young girls (as in prepubescent). So yeah, unless your into kids, you want to go with "eine Frau."

[K9 Unit 1]

i thought fraunen or whatever was woman or something...remember hearing it in a WW2 movie lol

[number21 3]

I visited southern Germany/Austria in high school like 13 years ago. I thought it was great! Very clean and friendly. We were allowed out as high schoolers at night in Munich. Ein Mädchen hit on me in a bar, but I had no idea what she was saying.

I would love to go back sometime.

Just so you know: in German the word "madchen" does mean girl, but the reason it's "ein" (masc/neut) instead of "eine" (feminine) is because it refers specifically to young girls (as in prepubescent). So yeah, unless your into kids, you want to go with "eine Frau."

Yeah, i am still going off high school german. All the parts of speech apparently didn't stick with me.

[S.Gagne12 1]

Hi

i think german is one of the most complicated language to learn for people´s around the world.

there are so much specific words but that´s not the biggest issue.

I think the most difficult stuff for people who try to learn it is the different forms of past, present, future and all those specifications about that but most of the difficulties are in writing of the language.

How you think your language is to learn? pretty easy or really difficult?

Bye

[adam14 182]

it is. trust me.

[hockeydoc 0]

Gemany=dark beer, great engineering, not so good electrical systems, window shopping for hookers, autobahn, prejudice (Jews etc)...(I forgot Cookoo clocks)...

These are my stereo types for Germany, since that seems to be the question.

I think English is the hardest language to learn, as there are no difinate rules for anything, and it shares pieces of so many other languages. I love the Star Spangle Banner when sung well, but it is a darn hard one to sing, with way to much range. I can't sing it. It is beautiful, and the words are inspirational though.

**FYI, I am German, 2 generations removed...

[K9 Unit 1]

really alot of germans learn english like a snap...but when you go the other way its a nightmare

i agree about the star spangled banner though, it really shows who's a really really good singer

[Ahriman 1]

Hi

i think german is one of the most complicated language to learn for people´s around the world.

there are so much specific words but that´s not the biggest issue.

I think the most difficult stuff for people who try to learn it is the different forms of past, present, future and all

You've never seen Korean....

Latin is by far one of the easiest languages to learn though, extremely regular nouns and usage and verb tenses follow specific rules.

[K9 Unit 1]

oh boy...doesn't all koreans sound like their pissed off? and plus their real rough too...like every romance tv series has a series of fights and stuff lol

i can't stand jap either...kinda pisses me off (no offence anyone)

[kosydar 0]

Racial slur + pisses me off + (no offense)= no sympathy.

[lampliter87 8]

Hi

i think german is one of the most complicated language to learn for people´s around the world.

there are so much specific words but that´s not the biggest issue.

I think the most difficult stuff for people who try to learn it is the different forms of past, present, future and all

You've never seen Korean....

Latin is by far one of the easiest languages to learn though, extremely regular nouns and usage and verb tenses follow specific rules.

Vergil isn't easy...

Racial slur + pisses me off + (no offense)= no sympathy.

+1

[Ahriman 1]

Hi

i think german is one of the most complicated language to learn for people´s around the world.

there are so much specific words but that´s not the biggest issue.

I think the most difficult stuff for people who try to learn it is the different forms of past, present, future and all

You've never seen Korean....

Latin is by far one of the easiest languages to learn though, extremely regular nouns and usage and verb tenses follow specific rules.

Vergil isn't easy...

That's poetry; translating ee cummings into klingon isn't easy either.

[Aussie Joe 0]

Chinese was the hardest language I have ever learnt, its essentially learning two languages. Pin yin and characters.

This thread reminds me that I was supposed to finish learning German this year. But it looks like work's Uni course has taken over yet again. *sigh!* Guess I'll have to start the course again in my 30's. :(

PS: The Inline worlds are on in Ingolstadt at the moment. The most beautiful place I vitisted in all of Germany. It would be so easy to live there.

[Leafsrule16 5]

really alot of germans learn english like a snap...but when you go the other way its a nightmare

i agree about the star spangled banner though, it really shows who's a really really good singer

Arn't English and German very similar? I've heard that many places. It seems when anyone thinks Canada they think of a bunch of guys sitting around in hockey jerseys saying eh and drinking beer, as a Canadian i must admit a lot of that is actually realistic, to some extent anyways. Anytime I'm on vacation or anything and people find out im from Canada they ask me how the beer is up here, lol. Pretty great scenery as well.

[starsfan71 9]

really alot of germans learn english like a snap...but when you go the other way its a nightmare

i agree about the star spangled banner though, it really shows who's a really really good singer

Arn't English and German very similar? I've heard that many places. It seems when anyone thinks Canada they think of a bunch of guys sitting around in hockey jerseys saying eh and drinking beer, as a Canadian i must admit a lot of that is actually realistic, to some extent anyways. Anytime I'm on vacation or anything and people find out im from Canada they ask me how the beer is up here, lol. Pretty great scenery as well.

I've been to Canada several times and love the Scenery, I certainly wouldn't mind moving up there.

[Aussie Joe 0]

really alot of germans learn english like a snap...but when you go the other way its a nightmare

i agree about the star spangled banner though, it really shows who's a really really good singer

Arn't English and German very similar? I've heard that many places. It seems when anyone thinks Canada they think of a bunch of guys sitting around in hockey jerseys saying eh and drinking beer, as a Canadian i must admit a lot of that is actually realistic, to some extent anyways. Anytime I'm on vacation or anything and people find out im from Canada they ask me how the beer is up here, lol. Pretty great scenery as well.

We love beer here too, but seriously the Canadian guys that play in my team take it to a new level. One guy has turned a 2 story bungalo in his backyard into a mini brew house. He won't need to buy beer again ever at the rate he's going. Drink, brew, drink, brew. ;)

[legiahockey 3]

living in poland this is what i hear. germans are the worst drinkers. as in cant hold there booze. and poland comes second only to russia. they can drink vodka like water. i think the avg pole can drink with the best of americans. the other night i had 8 beers. 0.5's at 7% alcohol and spent an hour un able to get up sitting on the jon chunkin up in the sink. while the other guys had 6-10 and walked home with smiles lol. im getting better but slowly because i try not to drink to often.

but many polish characteristics ive seen include almost all the old people are mean as hell. city workers are on break drinking 80 % of their shift and are very veryyy lazy lol. sport fans are extremely loyal to their team and even kill over it in certain areas in the country. plannd fights between opposing fans happens on the daily...

[K9 Unit 1]

sport fans are extremely loyal to their team and even kill over it in certain areas in the country. plannd fights between opposing fans happens on the daily...

thats like literally every european country, never walk into a bar with the wrong jersey on :P

[K9 Unit 1]

double post stupid internet

[RecLeagueHero 0]

German should be one of the easier languages for English speakers to pick up. Once you learn the grammatical rules, of which most are fairly similiar to English, it's just vocab building after that. The thing that tends to throw people is the German love affair with making rather large nouns out of several smaller ones to create new words. That, and they're put off because they mistakenly believe German is a very "harsh" language because their cheif experience with it is Nazi propaganda films. The Nazi's loved the "hard" style of speaking German, but that's not how your every day German speaks. Musically the "hard" style is making somewhat of a come back because it's popular with a number of German industrial bands, Rammstein probably being the most popular outside of German speaking countries.

[RecLeagueHero 0]

Gemany=dark beer, great engineering, not so good electrical systems, window shopping for hookers, autobahn, prejudice (Jews etc)...(I forgot Cookoo clocks)...

Racism in Europe in general is quite interesting. Or at least from the preception that Americans have, which is that all Europeans are by nature communists. Overt anti-Semitism isn't especially popular, probably for obvious reasons. But mainstream politicans regularly say things about immigrants that wouldn't fly here in a million years. Actually, since the 90's it's becoming increasingly popular for politicans to take rather strong anti-immigration stances and European immigration policy has been changing. In many ways refusing to let Turkey join the EU while accepting former Eastern Bloc countries is a pretty good way of gauging how things are shaping up.

Of course, the rise of eastern European Neo-Nazi gangs and organiziations are also fairly interesting in light of how Hitler felt about Slavics. It does tend to get a broad brush of ethnic nationalism as opposed to real National Socialism. It's also interesting to see how mainland European ethnic nationalists have embraced a sort of European nationalism that tends to discourage the rank and file from using national borders as a standard for whether they want you dead or not.

[Ahriman 1]

Gemany=dark beer, great engineering, not so good electrical systems, window shopping for hookers, autobahn, prejudice (Jews etc)...(I forgot Cookoo clocks)...

Racism in Europe in general is quite interesting. Or at least from the preception that Americans have, which is that all Europeans are by nature communists.

First - move out of the south if that's the impression you're getting

Second - just reminded me of the (was it spain or italy's?) olympic basketball team that took a picture where they all had "squinty" eyes right before the last summer olympics...

[pantherfan 0]

That was spain. They show their class here aswell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/sports/0...r5.9758674.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2333098/S...cism-shame.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/i...als/4018421.stm

[RecLeagueHero 0]

First - move out of the south if that's the impression you're getting

Well, it's a bit of "duh" matter. My point was using a bit of hyperbole, do I need to explain what that word means to you? However, it's largely true that European politics are more left leaning and stereotypes are all about painting with broad brushes. Think about the above statement. Did you know that there are many people in the American south who can read and are, indeed, well educated?

Second - just reminded me of the (was it spain or italy's?) olympic basketball team that took a picture where they all had "squinty" eyes right before the last summer olympics...

You mean like Miley Cyrus taking slant eyed photos? So what really?

That was spain. They show their class here aswell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/sports/0...r5.9758674.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2333098/S...cism-shame.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/i...als/4018421.stm

The Italians drag out Nazi flags to matches and even have had players that get involved with it. They take soccer very seriously, and while I don't they do it because of some great love of National Socialism, if they think it will f*** with the other team they're going to do it. It's not limited to the Spanish. Hell, Nike in Europe had a bunch of TV spots asking fans to not resort to racist taunts during matches. Though it should be noted that a lot of football hooliganism in Europe has (or had) ties to ethnic nationalist politics.