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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5886 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 129 of 133 18 March 2012 at 3:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I would say so :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4872 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 130 of 133 18 March 2012 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I really like your log!
You might already have figured these things out, but I'll write anyway:
I can only think of these four at the moment: wusste (past tense of wissen) - wüsste (subjunctive of wissen) [here the vowels are short, the vowel in Wüste is longer] wurde (past tense of werden) - würde (subjunctive form) der Bruder (singular) - die Brüder (plural) junger (from "jung" as in "ein junger Mann") - jünger (comparative of "jung")
It's often written as a single "e", as in Feder, Leben, lesen, Wesen, Weg, etc.
You can watch it with English subtitles here, but there are no German captions (maybe just not yet). I really like how the series humorously portrays cultural stereotypes and the German ones are hilariously true. Every character gives quite a good insight into a subset of German mentalities. Edited by druckfehler on 18 March 2012 at 8:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5365 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 131 of 133 19 March 2012 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thank you Druckfehler for the pronunciation tips. I didn't know some of the words as I haven't looked at the
German subjunctive yet. Thanks also for the link to "Türkish für Anfänger".This series was mentioned by Flarioca. I will watch an episode and report back. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5365 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 132 of 133 24 March 2012 at 11:51am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I watched an amazing film last night. I picked it up in the library without knowing anything about it and I was
spellbound. Nordwand I’ve been looking around for songs in German so I can try to match the lyrics with the sounds. The tempo needs to be slow or I won’t be able to pick out the words. I came across one of my all time favourite pieces from Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with French translation. Holde Gattin Maybe some day I’ll be able to understand it in German but the fact that I only understand a word here and there doesn’t detract from its appeal. I watched just one episode of "Türkish für Anfänger". Maybe some of the humour is lost in translation but I didn’t find it that funny. I might watch some more episodes anyway for the German listening practice and maybe I’ll like it better. I had 2 language Skypes calls this week – 1 French, 1 German. My spoken French has really disimproved. It irritates me when I can’t think of words like “airline” and it’s less than a year since I passed the DALF c1 exam. Hmm. I can keep a conversation flowing but I get these annoying holes in my vocabulary. I haven’t read any French novels in a while so during the week I started La Princesse Des Glaces de Camilla Läckberg. As for the German Skype lesson, we’re still on the prepositions that take the dative. Not very exciting but I guess I need the building blocks for later. During the week I heard the German "Auf Wiederhören" for ending phone conversations. I thought it was an interesting turn of phrase compared to the English. Edited by Tournesol on 24 March 2012 at 9:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5230 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 133 of 133 25 March 2012 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Because of that, when I actually interacted with other people in German, I coined 'auf wiederschreiben', and I always ended my letters/emails with it. It made my German friends laugh and comment that they hadn't thought about it and they always did the change from "sehen" to "hören" in auto-pilot mode :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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