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Via Diva
Diglot
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Russian Federation
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1109 posts - 1427 votes 
Speaks: Russian*, English
Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek

 
 Message 1 of 225
20 December 2014 at 4:10pm | IP Logged 
Willkommen bei dem Team Rätsel!


There's a language that is considered to be dry and complex by some, boring and terrifying by other some. Do you remember how Mark Twain was terrified by that sentence:
Wenn er aber auf der Strasse der in Sammt und Seide gehüllten jetzt sehr ungenirt nach der neusten Mode gekleideten Regierungsräthin begegnet.
Or how he hilariously tried to incorporate German long words in English:
In the daybeforeyesterdayshortlyaftereleveno'clock Night, the inthistownstandingtavern called `The Wagoner' was downburnt. When the fire to the onthedownburninghouseresting Stork's Nest reached, flew the parent Storks away.
But when the bytheraging, firesurrounded Nest itself caught Fire, straightway plunged the quickreturning Mother-stork into the Flames and died, her Wings over her young ones outspread
.
(looks awesome, by the way)

But we are going to learn this language, no matter what others think. We may have different reasons, methods and priorities, but this is only going to help.

We're going to make sure that we won't be is this situation because of lack of knowledge:


Perhaps this guy below is right:

but is this enough to stop us? Nein!

Unser Mannschaft:
Via Diva (captain): log, e-mail, twitter, last.fm, lang-8
agantik: log
agta: log
AlOlaf: log
anamsc: log
CarlyD: log
catullus_roar: log
Cavesa: log
Ccaesar: log
danyal: log
Epeli: log
fabriciocarraro: log
g-bod: log
jbadg74621: log
jvv426: log
liammcg: log
Nieng Zhonghan: log
owverysweet: log
patrickwilken: log
Ramblurr: log
Rem: log
s0fist: log
sabotai: log
Sarnek: log
Serpent: log
sillygoose1: log
suzukaze: log
WingSuet: log

Edited by Via Diva on 08 February 2015 at 11:06am

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Via Diva
Diglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
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Joined 4235 days ago

1109 posts - 1427 votes 
Speaks: Russian*, English
Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek

 
 Message 2 of 225
20 December 2014 at 4:16pm | IP Logged 
Personal resources' lists:

patrickwilken: a list

Via Diva: Serien (kostenlos) - legal!, kostenlose Lehrbücher
binmitdabei.com
dw.de
SpeakASAP (Russian-based)
ListeningPractice.org
Das elektronische Valenzwörterbuch deutscher Verben
Memrise (viadiva959), Duolingo (viadiva)
Lyrics: some original German among the others, Rus translations 1, Rus translations 2

Edited by Via Diva on 21 December 2014 at 12:10pm

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Via Diva
Diglot
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Russian Federation
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Joined 4235 days ago

1109 posts - 1427 votes 
Speaks: Russian*, English
Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek

 
 Message 3 of 225
20 December 2014 at 4:19pm | IP Logged 
placeholder for other stuff

20.12.14: Let's pick a name!
Via Diva - Gegenwart, Leidenshaft (?)
Rem - Rätsel
patrickwilken - super begeistert / Der Hammer
Cavesa - Rapunzel, Siegfrid, Faust

VOTE here

Edited by Via Diva on 22 December 2014 at 4:14am

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Sarnek
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 Message 4 of 225
20 December 2014 at 5:27pm | IP Logged 
The Hammer seems pretty fitting.
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sillygoose1
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 Message 5 of 225
20 December 2014 at 5:33pm | IP Logged 
This is going to be the year that I finally crack down on this language, so for me "The Hammer" would be highly symbolic.

Either way, the name doesn't matter to me much. I hope to see all of your progressions throughout the year.
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Via Diva
Diglot
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1109 posts - 1427 votes 
Speaks: Russian*, English
Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek

 
 Message 6 of 225
20 December 2014 at 5:41pm | IP Logged 
I'm not fond of "Der Hammer" because it doesn't sound any different from "The hammer" (except for articles, of
course). To me it's way more English than German, and German has a lot of awesome and unique words.
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liammcg
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 Message 7 of 225
20 December 2014 at 5:51pm | IP Logged 
Thanks for creating the team page, captain! ;) Really looking forward to a productive and
fun year!

As for the name, I quite like Rätsel. It certainly fits in with my initial impression of
German as a puzzle that needed to be solved!
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Rem
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Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Mandarin, Czech, French

 
 Message 8 of 225
20 December 2014 at 6:01pm | IP Logged 
Yay. The German Team thread is up and running. :)

Hello team mates. I'm looking forward to following everyone's progress next year. :)


Via Diva wrote:
I'm not fond of "Der Hammer" because it doesn't sound any different
from "The hammer" (except for articles, of course). To me it's way more English than
German, and German has a lot of awesome and unique words.

Same here. It just seems too English to me.


liammcg wrote:
As for the name, I quite like Rätsel. It certainly fits in with my
initial impression of German as a puzzle that needed to be solved!


This was my impression too. Solving the puzzle and getting to grips with the mysteries
of a language are a big part of what motivates me to study them. :)




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