I studied German in high school but I don't remember any of it. I like to pretend that ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet.
I took French in high school and barely scraped by. My wife took German and went on an exchange program for six weeks after high school and had a terrific time.
Close to 30 years later and I remember a lot of the French but she's forgotten most of the German.
So who's laughing now, huh?
Oh right, you got to have those six weeks in Germany. Merde.
Grammar and syntax aside, it's basically /me_irl for our German-speaking compadres. Most other languages - French included - generally have a community analogous to most of the popular English-language communities.
In case you're learning French to be able to work at a bigger French company - don't. You will be very unhappy. The basic reason is, French companies, even those who think they're "modern", are still run like Louis XIV's is the CEO. Like an extremely rigid, top-down, feudalistic little empire full of screaming bosses and servile employees.
I studied German in high school and then as an adult I traveled to India and studied Malayalam, the language of the southern-most state of Kerala. I was surprised at how similar Malayalam was to German (in terms of grammatical structure, not vocabulary) and learned that it's because of Hermann Gundert, a 19th Century German missionary who learned Malayalam (and a bunch of other Indian languages) and published its first formal grammar, more-or-less imposing German's grammatical structure onto it.
Tu peux apprendre les deux !
Or join us on [email protected]. Sure we are not as active as [email protected] but maybe with your help will improve (^_^)
Understanding the language is great but it's not enough. Unfortunately the majority of stuff posted are inside jokes which is why a lot of people perceive them as unfunny apparently
French is so difficult to learn because of the pronunciation. Spanish is much easier to learn in comparison. I don't get why all school in Germany prefer French as third language before Spanish.
Also long history of french being what different social elites like nobles and intellectuals liked to cosplay, leading to french being kind of a status symbol for being culturally educated
The most populated region at war times was West Germany. It was governed by France after war.
I have no idea if this is actually the reason but we are incredibly thankful for restoring our country by our french friends - which we harassed and killed beforehand.
You don't miss that much. They are trying to do edgy dank memes in german. The "culture" they represent is quite white and cleasend from migrant humor.
Its the german version of these alt right pepe memes.
Well tell me how exactly a non white culture is supposed to emerge in a country with a non existent colored population, or am i missing some specific meaning here ?
I had a chat with them yesterday using google translate and apparently they think "From the river to the sea" is problematic. Not sure why, but it's probably their government lying to them and saying Palestine is an ethnostate.
I reject the existence of Israel too. Before Israel, Jews and Arabs lived in peace in Palestine. But Britain invaded, created Israel, and cut Palestine in half. From the river to the sea, Arab Palestinians must be free to walk hand in hand with their Jewish siblings. Not imprisoned behind Israeli walls, forced out of their homes, and bombed in the name of stopping a Hamas government that Israel themselves helped gain power. Hamas is Israel's fault, not the fault of the innocent children in Gaza. Israel is responsible for the attacks against Jews in Israel and in the rest of the world. Because Israel has told the world that Jews are evil colonisers and their existence must be paid for in innocent blood. This is a slanderous lie against the Jewish people! Down with Israel! Down with antisemitism! Down with genocide!