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| morprussell Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7164 days ago 272 posts - 285 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 57 of 119 12 October 2005 at 12:55pm | IP Logged |
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Try this one.
[URL=http://www.vistawide.com/German/why_German.htm]http://www.vistawide.com/German/why_German.htm[/URL] EDIT: Admin, This is the third attempt to post this link. I suspect that the automatic spell checker keeps changing the lowercase "g" in German to a capital... and thus causing the link to fail. Is there anything you can do about this? Edited by administrator on 12 October 2005 at 11:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7377 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 58 of 119 12 October 2005 at 11:45pm | IP Logged |
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I'm sorry, the forum automatically corrects 'German' into 'German' - I was tired of always seeing the same typos in the forum. I can't change it but the page is interesting.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 59 of 119 13 October 2005 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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To revert back to the original topic......
I want to learn German some day but I really don't know why. I think that it might be a question of wanting to learn for learning's sake. On that note, I find it fascinating that I have no interest in learning certain languages but I am determined to learn others, one of these being German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zorndyke Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6959 days ago 374 posts - 382 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Czech | Message 60 of 119 06 November 2005 at 7:28am | IP Logged |
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There are MANY Turkish speaking German, especially to the south of the country. So if you want to travel there it would be useful to know some German. I think there are more German speaking than English e.g. Edited by Zorndyke on 06 November 2005 at 7:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ferdi Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 7076 days ago 41 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Turkish, Dutch*, English, German | Message 61 of 119 08 November 2005 at 7:50am | IP Logged |
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in the south of turkey they only know words and basic phrases, so you better learn turkish if you want to travel to turkey.
my reason for learning German is because its similar to dutch, if i didn't know dutch i would probably not learn German , but a beautiful language like french italian or Spanish, maybe its also because of the history of Germany that many people don't like German , but because it is useful they decide to learn it anyway ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zorndyke Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6959 days ago 374 posts - 382 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Czech | Message 62 of 119 08 November 2005 at 7:58am | IP Logged |
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So when I was in Turkey, I noticed that most of them were really able to speak the language, not just to say the basic stuff you can learn in a few hours. But as everywhere there will be some of these and some of the others...
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| ferdi Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 7076 days ago 41 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Turkish, Dutch*, English, German | Message 63 of 119 08 November 2005 at 8:24am | IP Logged |
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i don't know where you went but in alanya and some other places they only spoke turkish and a little bit of German and english but not fluent:O
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 64 of 119 15 November 2005 at 6:03am | IP Logged |
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English is, of course, a Germanic language, so for an English-speaker it's easy to pick up. Also, it has been a great way for me to gain insight into my own mother tongue. Any English-speakers who are interested in historical linguistics would be delighted while studying German. It also leads to understanding of other languages - kind of like the "Latin" of Romance languages, but not dead. :) I find that as a native English speaker and an intermediate German speaker, I can understand most of what I read in Dutch. I'm sure that if I were fluent in German and English, I would be able to understand 99% of written Dutch. Even with my poor German skills, I can understand a little of the Swedish I see at Ikea. :) I'm sure that even a French speaker must find it interesting, since all my German teachers have also studied French, and are constantly pointing out the cognates. So I would say that the abundance of languages derived from German should be enough to convince anyone-- that's not even taking into account the culture, the number of speakers, and the economic value. Personally speaking, I am also of German heritage, as are many white Americans, and that might also be a motivating factor for many.
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