To all German members...

[Bill M.]

Meine Mama hat mir Fleishsalat gekauft. Es smeckt sehr gut. Es erinnert mich an die heimat vom Deutschen baeker......Ich habe mit meinem Opa geredet, und er habt ein 200 liter fische becken, mit echten flanzen und ein groBen Eheim Filter... 300 liter in der stunde....

Auf Wiedersehn!
Tchuss!
Bill

[Drumachine09]

Noice!

Ich habe ein fette ente, er namen sein charlie.

[Kuli_Loach]

eck uk ak ugh kuky buh lulululu lalallaala ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I know german well.

[gm72]

Drum! So you kick the living $hit out of people, keep fish, AND speak german? I bow to your dominance. And please don't kick me.

[Drumachine09]

All i said was i have a fat duck, his name is charlie.

Back when i took german, we would have speaking tests, and my teacher (we called her frau) would give us a subject, and we would have to speak about it for 3 minutes off of the top of our head. She gave me the subject "your pets". So, i began to say something like this.


Hello, my name is rolf, and i have a fat duck. His name is charlie. Charlie is a magic duck who gets good grades, and is fluent in japanese. Charlie is fat because he does not exercise.

Followed by more random babble about my duck.


I took german for 3 semesters, so i pretty much know all i would need, im just not fluent in it.

[MeganL3985]

Ha forget me knowing any language other than english!!!!!!! lol
I am very interested in learning portuguese though, since its part of my heritage. Maybe in the near future I guess. **Shrugs**

[gm72]

Hahahahahaha!!!!!! Charlie the fat duck! Man, I needed that laugh!!!

[JDonner]

No problem to understand what he writes, but then again I speak 4 languages.

[nanaglen2001]

I always ask myself why school books for foreign languages are always so darned stupid....

I started learning English this way:

This is a hat
This is a cat

This is Tommy
This is Angela...and stuff like this.

After I guess 6 years of English lessons in school, I visited my cousin in Dunstable (near London) and the first week I really thought I have landed in Kinshasa Zaire instead of good ole England. I practicaly understood nothing:confused: :confused:

It got better in the second week, and in the thisrd week I was able to play Bingo (which was great fun, because of all those weird names for the numbersthumbs2: )

One thing I learned for sure, a language one learns by talking it and listening to it. And of course using the international [Only Registered Users Can See Links.] not only the one in his/her mother language.


@ Drummachine, I really would have liked to listen to that story about Charliethumbs2:

[crackatinny]

Andrea, your english is very good, how long have you been learning english?

[Kuli_Loach]

Yea, it is very good. I have taken Spanish and I know about as much now as to when I started it last year.:thumb: Thank goodness for all them hours of extra sleep I got in there.:hmm3grin2orange:

[jweintraub]

I've been living in Germany since Dec 03 and can get myself around in a bar or restaurant, but much more than that and I'm lost! Thank god most people here speak a little bit of english!

[jeffs99dime]

i'm part German, but i have no idea what any of that says! lol

[MeganL3985]

Weird names for numbers? In what language?
I know 1-10 in german...thats definitely it. My mom taught me when I was little, cause she lived in Germany for a few years when her dad was stationed in the military over there.

[Rue]

...I agree with you about the dumb way in which they teach foreign languages...

My daughter just took Grade 10 German by correspondance. Even though she had me available to practice with, she can't speak much at all. Most of what she learned was grammar...which is very important of course...but I'd much prefer if you learned some basic speaking skills...and THEN focussed on dangling participles...

[Lady Hobbs]

I wanted to be a nurse but Latin was required. Forget it. I could get no where. And how many nurses do you see running around speaking Latin! I know many of the meds are in Latin names but those are all coded so easily. I bet to take a survey of nurses, none of them know it.

[nanaglen2001]

@ Crackatinny

I learned about 9 years in I guess you call it High School, but I found out in those 3 weeks in England, that there is a much better way to learn English.

One has to start THINKING in English, not first in his/her mother language and then translating it in ones head. Big mistake!!!!!

That was step one, my second step was, I found out that one can USE the English language, not only learning it in school to get good grades. I started to read English and American novels. I still do it today.

And the last step was the hardest. You really have to speak the language, forget about the fear anyone will laugh at you. I was so positivly surprised no one laughed at me, so I just talked, and if I dont understand, I just ask, most people are so helpful and explain until one gets the meaning.

The same works fine with me when I am in France for a holiday. My French is just awful, but most of the French folks really appreciate it, that a tourist tries to talk in their language, so I really can only say, most French people are really nice.

Absolutely the same goes for Americans. Lots of them I met, seem to have Germans in their ancestors, so I often hear some German sentences they learned from their Grandparents.

Something is really funny. I usually understand American English much better than the English from Great Britain. Dont ask me why.

Once a funny thing happened to me. I just sat in a Cologne "Brauhaus" (kind of a very cologne typical pub" and I listened to some people talking in a very weird sounding English. They were studying the card and tried to decide what to eat.

I just went over and asked if I could help them. Oh yes I could, and I had a very funny afternoon with some Australians. Great guys. They had been hairdressers who participated in a hairdressers World Championship. And they had an afternoon off.

Man I whish I had some money left over, I really need to fly over and visit the Seattle Area again, and I want to see those really nice people, I met there, again. I really think my English needs some freshing up:ezpi_wink1: And over there is someone I promised to set up a nice Angel tank.:ezpi_wink1:

@ Megan

The French language has the weirdest names for numbers. For example:
ninety nine in french would be: 4 times twenty nineteen (quatre vingt dix neuf) I really would like to know how twentymillionsixhundredfourtyseventhousendthreehundredthirtyfour ( 20,647,334) would sound:hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: