albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4392 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 1 of 13 06 February 2014 at 11:37am | IP Logged |
I have done a new recording . I have been keeping working hard on German , i have been concentrating
much more on listening and a bit on reading though ,nevertheless every once in a while i like to try to say
something .
Here is the link : http://m.soundcloud.com/alberto-avanzini/sounds-from-gioved- morning . What do you
think ? I think i have done a couple mistakes with the article declension and probably some others .
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5324 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 2 of 13 06 February 2014 at 12:08pm | IP Logged |
All in all, your pronunciation is quite good. You made a couple of minor mistakes, for example "wenn ich das Video gedreht habe," but all German phonemes were pronounced correctly.
(English "when" is usually "als" in German if you're referring to past events. For more information see this website.)
Edited by Doitsujin on 06 February 2014 at 12:08pm
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albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4392 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 3 of 13 06 February 2014 at 12:50pm | IP Logged |
Doitsujin wrote:
All in all, your pronunciation is quite good. You made a couple of minor mistakes, for
example "wenn ich das Video gedreht habe," but all German phonemes were pronounced correctly.
(English "when" is usually "als" in German if you're referring to past events. For more information see this
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Thanks , i always tend to forget to use als for past events .
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beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4626 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian
| Message 4 of 13 06 February 2014 at 1:13pm | IP Logged |
Although you do use wenn when referring to an event that frequently occurred in the past.
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albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4392 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 5 of 13 06 February 2014 at 1:25pm | IP Logged |
beano wrote:
Although you do use wenn when referring to an event that frequently occurred in the
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Sure ,als only for specific past events .
Edited by albysky on 06 February 2014 at 1:25pm
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Tollpatchig Senior Member United States Joined 4011 days ago 161 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Maltese
| Message 6 of 13 06 February 2014 at 3:40pm | IP Logged |
Sounds pretty good. I didn't think of using SoundCloud to keep recordings of myself
talking. I love your accent with the German language.
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albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4392 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 7 of 13 06 February 2014 at 4:00pm | IP Logged |
Tollpatchig wrote:
Sounds pretty good. I didn't think of using SoundCloud to keep recordings of myself
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Thanks . Indeed yes soundcould is a great tool that i have recently discorvered
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5324 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 8 of 13 06 February 2014 at 4:06pm | IP Logged |
beano wrote:
Although you do use wenn when referring to an event that frequently occurred in the past. |
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But in those sentences "wenn" usually means "whenever." For example:
Whenever she saw me she waved at me. = Jedes Mal, wenn sie mich sah, winkte sie mir zu.
If you meant a different construction, please post it in this thread.
IMHO, English speakers probably mix up "wenn" and "als," because "when" and "wenn" sound similar and are often used in the same constructions in both languages.
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