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| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5152 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 65 of 68 29 November 2011 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Who cares what anybody else thinks? German is cool.
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| j0nas Triglot Groupie Norway Joined 5546 days ago 46 posts - 70 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German | Message 66 of 68 29 November 2011 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Pretty much everyone. ;) Edited by j0nas on 29 November 2011 at 8:32pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| shadowcalm Triglot Newbie Taiwan Joined 5979 days ago 29 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Latin, Ancient Greek, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 67 of 68 02 December 2011 at 10:49am | IP Logged | ||
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As I was growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, German was probably the most popular foreign language in the area since many residents had a German/Luxembourg background, and no one ever said anything negative about my study of it. Now that I live in Taiwan, people are shocked to find that I majored in German. Many tend to equate "foreigner" with English and have a hard time even understanding that my grandparents were fluent German speakers.
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| Mai Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4723 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, Cantonese*, German Studies: Spanish | Message 68 of 68 27 December 2011 at 12:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I get most comments from French students and my mother told me, "Why not French? I think French sounds nice." I think it just comes from the stereotypes of that language from things like history films during WWII. People who do not speak German probably haven't heard how it sounds like when a woman sings it or when a child speaks it. "Ch" and "r" sounds aren't as pronounced as most people think in fluent speech, although in some dialects they do sound a bit more distinct.
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