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Sophia:
 Hi everyone,

if you interested in seeing the movie this link can give you an option. Search for Free Fall, you can see the movie with subtitle.

http://www.primewire.ag/

morrobay:
Thank you, Sophia.  I haven't tried the link, but I hope people will use it to see the movie.

On another subject, we may have to start a "German as a second language" thread!  I was looking at German for Dummies online - how many words are there for "the" anyway?   ;D  So far I've found das, der and die, and don't know when it's right to use which one.  And just learning to speak isn't enough, it's knowing what someone is saying to you that is the harder part, I think.

das Brot
der Aufschnitt
die Cerealien

And all nouns are capitalized?  Didn't know that.  I also can't follow the sentence structure, the same words are in different formation than in an English sentence.  And I thought English was hard   :)

morrobay:
I just googled "how long does it take to learn German", and found lots of funny and interesting comments, these from different people stood out:


Mark Twain said "Life is too short to learn German".

"It took me roughly four to six years. I've been here 29 years and still don't get the der, die and das."


"I married a German and moved here 11 years ago (okay, we did spend five of those years in the US) and I still can't keep up with Germans in conversation. Part of it may be that I've had to learn German and Bavarian at the same time, but still, the word order and the du/Sie thing do my head in. And really, how many words for "the" does any language need?"

"I really think there are as many rules as exceptions in the German grammar. I think learning German for four months required more brain power that getting my engineering degree. "

mariska:
Hi Butlers Fantasy (I will call you BM oke),

Learning the German language is difficult. At school everybody hated it. The language is schön but the grammar is really terrible to learn.

mariska:
Hi Penthesilea, thank you very much  :).
Are you planning to watch freier fall?

So you are German. Then you might be the Max Riemelt expert.
Do you know if he really is a celebrity in Germany?

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