#english german bilingual

[incorrect-maraudersaandco-quotes]

Dorcas: How do I look?

Marlene: Tu eres magnífica.

Dorcas:

James: Mals, that spanish

Marlene, blushing: Du bist großartig

Peter: German, not even close.

Marlene: Fuck off!

James: and we are back to english!

Dorcas: Wait, how many languages you know?

Marlene: four, english, german, spanish and tagalog.

Dorcas: oh [starts mentally preparing the wedding venue]

[kinnards]

raise you hand if you speak more than one language 🙋🏻

[sleep-deprived-luka]

Making the Ga'hoole translation post piqued my interest in terms of language, so I searched differences between english and german and y'all don't have Fälle????

I mean in hindsight it's obvious, english only has the and not the whole mess behind der/die/das, but still???

Is that why I find english easier???? Because I don't have to ask if it's wer? wessen? wen oder was? and wem oder was? every single time?????

[5eyed]

another yayo just for fun :)

[bingewatchintilldawn]

As a bilingual person, I realised that my handwriting is terrible in my native language AND second language...

Soooo I got curious

!!Please reblog for more answers!!

[lil-gae-disaster]

Me: oh shit you have to translate this into german

Me: oh shit we're on social media

Me: SPEAK ENGLISH ON SOCIAL MEDIA DIPSHIT

[nerdyearthquakeunknown]

I see a lot of language comparisons that completely shit on German for being a silly language. But what a lot of non linguists forget is that 1. Most of the languages you’re comparing are Romance languages, and only English and German are Germanic languages, 2. English is an absolute abomination of a language. English may technically be a Germanic language, but half the words we use stem from Romance languages. English is so much an amalgamation that people have stopped noticing.

You wanna know what maths is called on Icelandic?? Stærðfræði! Fucking SIZE SUBJECT. Chemistry? Efnafræði! STUFF SUBJECT???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????

[essektheylyss]

brb brute forcing my way into learning every romance language by inexplicably picking up bilingual books of verse usually without fucking realizing it

[zondel]

Seeing starlings is so fun, cuz from afar the look a bit like a blackbird, until you realize that the bird moves like it drank 20 cans of monster energy

[striving4mikey]

I’ve seen a lot of posts going around about accurately writing bilingual characters so I thought I’d share a little something. I’m near fluent in German and have lived in German speaking countries for a good portion of my life. I also have an undergraduate degree in German. While attending grad school in Austria, these are some of the notes I took in an art history class. I think they’re hilarious as they’re an unholy mix of German and English. Maybe it will help illustrate how some words are easier in one language than another and how the brain works!

[thesolarangel]

Hey native English speakers, I think I made a mistake in one of my recent fanfic..

Is it "All caution went out the wind"

Or "window"? Or something else? 😱

[gm-zionel]

This fucking game, the braincell vampire that is Baba.

[noven-warsh]

imagine if Nihachu was in the qsmp

[some-siren]

Me trying to write an exam text in German: Ok so I have to put the verb at the end, good. Okay now how do I say-

My French: courir

Me: What? No it's-

English: to run, running

Me: No! It's actually-

The few words of Italian I know: Correre!

Me: Oh, would you all just shut up already!?

The scraps of scottish Gaelic at the back of my brain:

[sleepii-freddie]

reblog if you speak more than one language!

[theceaselessidiot]

being bilingual is all fun and games until you're trying to write something in your native language but your brain keeps giving you scenes in your second language and you're like "this is NOT what I ordered"