Agreed on assessment of how the guy in the video is trying to portray German, but it's far from a nice sounding language and grammar is a freaking nightmare. Finnish is actually quite melodic and has some of the most interesting words (some over 50 letters). Canadian doesn't exist though, it's just English and French with their specific accents.I speak German. It's really great and the stereotypes, perhaps Mark Twain among the earliest dissers, don't make much sense. The guy in the video is busting his kidneys trying to make it sound harsher than native speakers actually make it.
Finnish sounds pretty nasty, though. And Canadian.
Kind of funny actually, but German can sound just fine. Not as musical as French, Italian, Spanish, or (my favorite) Swedish, but a fine language nonetheless. What it lacks in mellifluence it makes up for in grammatical beauty and precision.
#4 my favorite.
I once tried learning German. It was nice except for one thing ... three genders. That made it very difficult. Door could be male, window female, table neuter etc. It's okay if you've grown up with it but difficult to learn these things later.Most languages, other than your own, sound a bit funny. French, Italian, Japanese, other English accents etc. Aside from the funny exaggerations in the video, German is the coolest sounding language to me.
I once tried learning German. It was nice except for one thing ... three genders. That made it very difficult. Door could be male, window female, table neuter etc. It's okay if you've grown up with it but difficult to learn these things later.
I know. I have pointed that out earlier. Thankfully English usually just is it, although some literary types like to call their country she.Hindi and Sanskrit also have genders for inanimate objects, and Sanskrit was way ahead of the curve with a third gender.
I may not have been alive toBe thankful to US troops that you are not speaking German today.
Even I pine for my dachshunds, but I never gave them such long names.hearing German makes me pine desperately for a Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung !!!
i like german...
natürlich !!!ya vol. World wide consensus is that "99 Luftballons" is much better in the German version than English.![]()
Listen to that gorgeous centuries-old German hymn (in the even older English cathedralI think Hitler with his harsh, rasping, shrieking voice did much to make German sound ugly.
Spoken properly with a cultured voice it can be just as easy on the ear as other languages.
i like german...
But they listen to Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.Why do aliens mostly speak English then?
Biggest thing I don't like about German is the verb order. The vocabulary is pretty cool.
Glove = Hand shoe
Biggest thing I don't like about German is the verb order.
What are you talking about? The verb order is one of the most beautiful things in the German language. It actually requires the listener to pay attention to what is being said. All of it.
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Ich habe noch nie von "verb order" gehört. Ist damit eigentlich von "word order" die Rede?What are you talking about? The verb order is one of the most beautiful things in the German language. It actually requires the listener to pay attention to what is being said. All of it.
Ich habe noch nie von "verb order" gehört. Ist damit eigentlich von "word order" die Rede?
Be thankful to US troops that you are not speaking German today.
i also like this one... (nice show, by the way)There's another song from that chick from the Netflix show Dark that is pretty catchy. Anyway, German is definitely an awesome sounding language. Sounds way cooler than the romance languages, except for perhaps Italian. I learned quite a bit, but lost interest after realizing how good of English pretty much all (younger) Germans speak these days.
Biggest thing I don't like about German is the verb order. The vocabulary is pretty cool.
Glove = Hand shoe
it's time for a lil 'poooostfuuuusioooon' ! post + post =Why do aliens mostly speak English then?
Ich habe noch nie von "verb order" gehört. Ist damit eigentlich von "word order" die Rede?
question of the day: where does yoda put the verb in german ?![]()
I think Hitler with his harsh, rasping, shrieking voice did much to make German sound ugly.
Spoken properly with a cultured voice it can be just as easy on the ear as other languages.
Don't recall any Russian armies in Africa, Italy, or France. Don't recall any Russian bombers over Germany. Could it be that the Brits and Americans helped?Russia defeated Germany
USA defeated japan
I speak German. It's really great and the stereotypes, perhaps Mark Twain among the earliest dissers, don't make much sense. The guy in the video is busting his kidneys trying to make it sound harsher than native speakers actually make it.
Finnish sounds pretty nasty, though. And Canadian.
Interestingly, I just finished a biography of a black man who grew up in Hitler's Germany during that era. He listened on the radio, admired the Fuhrer, etc., but as he grew up, he ran into racial problems as you'd expect then. BUT one thing he mentioned was that people in Hamburg ADMIRED Hitler's vocal abilities: that he could go from loud and harsh, to gentle and soft, etc.
I think many of us have heard only bits of recordings that help demonstrate Hitler's monstrosity clearly, without the nuance there that really existed, and beguiled much of a stricken nation.