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101 Reasons German is a Great Language! | ||
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5423 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 41 of 55 01 April 2010 at 5:03am | IP Logged | ||
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6273 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 42 of 55 01 April 2010 at 11:52am | IP Logged | ||
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German suddenly became a highly unpopular language in the USA in 1917, though I am unaware of any formal ban. In 1914, East European Jews were sometimes attacked in Britain, because the names on their shops sounded German. German is a great language, and it has sometimes also been dangerous to speak it.
More generally, societies suddenly have attacks of nativism from time to time, targeted at foreign languages and cultures, or at least some of them. At the moment, anti-Islamic sentiment is widespread in much of Europe, for example. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jong Newbie Chile theheap.awardspace.c Joined 7155 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Spanish* Studies: Russian | Message 43 of 55 22 April 2010 at 4:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll leave a couple of links here.
Bastian Sick is the author of a column about the German language in the renowned German newspaper Der Spiegel. He recently published a column titled "Ten good reasons for learning German": Zehn gute Gründe, Deutsch zu lernen The reasons he gives are humoristic and some are charged with culture references. The next week, he received replies from his readers with even more reasons (some of them in English): Gute Gründe für Deutsch All of this articles are in German, so I hope German enthusiasts will read them and comment on them for the benefit of aspiring German learners around here :) (unfortunately, I don't have the time to do so myself right now) Edited by jong on 22 April 2010 at 4:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| unityandoutside Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6015 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin, Mandarin | Message 44 of 55 23 April 2010 at 10:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Hermann Hesse wrote books in German. And Thomas Mann. And Nietzsche. Rilke wrote poems in German.
All the reasons I need. (It's not in my profile, but I've been studying more German than anything else of late) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 45 of 55 23 April 2010 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's one for the fans of very long words:
Vergangenheitsbewältigungsexporteur It's referring to the Nobel Prize author Günter Grass. http://www.faz.net/s/RubFC06D389EE76479E9E76425072B196C3/Doc ~EA427A0A9F537477FA5A4AFA22D68BF7C~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.htm l 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mirab3lla Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom lang-8.com/220477Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5444 days ago 161 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Romanian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Spanish, FrenchB1, Mandarin | Message 46 of 55 24 April 2010 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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German is a great language to learn because it has such a logical grammar that just falls into place (it reminds me of the Latin grammar) !
It also sounds great, it has a charm in it, the charm of Waltz and of the old Vienna, just listen to Strauss' Blue Danube, a piece of opera with no lyrics, but with the music of the German language in it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mafouz Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5326 days ago 56 posts - 64 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: German, Japanese, French | Message 47 of 55 27 April 2010 at 10:15am | IP Logged | ||
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My personal reason is Max Weber. And yes, I know this is weird :(
Not pecifically important to me, but I have the feeling that the best child literature right now is written in German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mspen1018 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5332 days ago 36 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English, German, Sign Language Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 48 of 55 25 May 2010 at 2:49am | IP Logged | ||
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every nation has a dark past... the difference is that Germany is the only one that owns up to it and makes it of
vital importance to condemn that style of behavior. the social norms around how Germans choose to express emotional restraint is made up for in it's language and being a 2nd Generation Deutschamerikaner who knows German in the same way I know English on that "get" it level, it may be long and a pain in the ass when it comes to grammar but the emotional expression of Germans are compensated for by it's complex and beautiful language. It is language family that English belongs to and assimilation learning until I took a German grammar class 2 years ago was a big upper hand for me but until I truly understood the German language, I never understood English and I was in AP classes as a kid. You will learn more about English from German... trust me.. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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