#deutsch/ german

[swden-writingcorner]

Kurzbeschreibung: Sprotte hat eine schlaflose Nacht und bekommt Hilfe von unerwarteter Seite Charaktere: Sprotte, Melanie Pairing: keine Word Count: 4445

[schreibfederlaerm]

so this European clothing retailer decided to advertise their jean cuts on youtube and it's unintentionally the funniest shit I've seen today. why? well.

now important context here: in German, die (pronounced 'dee') is just a feminine article, it literally means "the".

but if an ad gets placed in the middle of an English video and doesn't use a single explicitly German word for most of the ad, even a native speaker is gonna think "they want me to die how?" it keeps getting funnier.

I mean, holy shit

i will use these as reaction images until i die

[superconfusedcoryn]

WAS IST DENN HEUTE LOS ZUM FICK

[official-lauchzwiebel]

kritisch das tagesgeschehen beobachten reicht nicht mehr ich muss christian lindner beißen

[oblivioustothevampirediaries]

fellow germans, i don't know what to say anymore, was ist denn hier los

[thetiredprometheus]

It’s that time of year again where everyone and their mother watches it

[clouds-of-wings]

[german-enthusiast]

In my L1-acquisition class two weeks ago, our professor talked about how only 9% of the speech a baby hears is single words. Everything else is phrases and sentences, onslaughts of words and meaning!

Thus, a baby not only has to learn words and their meanings but also learn to segment lots of sounds INTO words. Doyouwantalittlemoresoupyesyoudoyoucutie. Damn.

When she talked about HOW babies learn to segment words our professor said, and I love it, "babies are little statisticians" because when listening to all the sounds, they start understanding what sound is likely to come after another vs which is not.

After discussing lots of experiments done with babies, our professor added something that I already knew somewhere in my brain but didn't know I know: All this knowledge is helpful when learning an L2 as well:

Listen to natives speaking their language. Original speed. Whatever speaker. Whatever topic.

It is NOT about understanding meaning. It is about learning the rhythm of the language, getting a feeling for its sound, the combination of sounds, the melody and the pronunciation.

Just how babies have to learn to identify single words within waves of sounds, so do adults learning a language. It will help immensely with later (more intentional) listening because you're already used to the sound, can already get into the groove of the languge.

Be as brave as a baby.

You don't even have to pay special attention. Just bathe in the sound of your target language. You'll soak it up without even noticing.

[sprachgefuehle]

me, a german dependent on public transport, repeating my daily affirmations into the bathroom mirror while gripping the sink so hard it hurts: strikes are important no matter how badly they affect me strikes are important no matter how badly they affect me strikes are important no mat

[ctrsdoesart]

Funfact: Volker Wissing hat bei der Vertrauensfrage FÜR Olaf Scholz gestimmt.

Aus dem Mann wird noch ein Sozialdemokrat!

[swden-writingcorner]

zwei Ausschnitte aus einem OS, der soweit fertig geschrieben ist.

Als schreiben plötzlich wieder leichter ging. sschönes Gefühl. ^_^

[ayjaydraws]

guys here’s proof that they straight up say bondage in the German dub, I didn’t make it up.

[superconfusedcoryn]

You think showing up to a gunfight with a knife is bad? I showed up with Goethes Hauptwerk to a Faustkampf hinter dem Aldiparkplatz

[official-german-gaming]

Non-native German speakers will never understand the primal urge to shout "WARUM HAST DU NICHTS GELERNT" whenever we come across the word "Junge" isolated and by itself

[cowboylikeyouu]

"ich geh nicht wählen, weil..."

HALT EINFACH DIE FRESSE UND BEWEG DEINEN VERFICKTEN ARSCH INS WAHLLOKAL DU EGOISTISCHER KOTZBROCKEN

[ladyylavenderrr]

The words for sloppy and slutty are the same in German (Schlampig). So you can imagine how fast my head snapped to look at my computer screen when I was absentmindedly watching Improbable Cause in German for the first time and i genuinely believed for half a second Garak had just called the Tal Shiar sluts and not sloppy