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Free Fall - Freier Fall
brianr:
--- Quote from: butlers_fantasy on April 30, 2014, 01:41:34 pm ---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 :)
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I love German. I learnt it for 4 years at High School then took it in my first year at University. Unfortunately I dropped it after 1 term as I had too heavy a load. I then failed French so decided not to be a language teacher ??? Instead I taught Geography and Economics and that was all 50 years ago. I can read French better but my accent is terrible and I find German announcements on trains easier to follow.
Actually once you learn it, German sentence structure is more regular than English. English always has so many exceptions to the rule. For us native speakers we do not notice. In German, the main verb is always second but any other verbs are at the end of the sentence. It is best to learn der/die/das along with the word. The strange thing is that girl (Mädchen) is das or neuter but that is because all nouns with "little" chen or lein attached are neuter.
French structure is more like English so it is easier to translate as you go.
Anyway I had better shut up before I make a fool of myself with native German speakers. ;D
morrobay:
I showed Rottweilers in conformation and obedience shows in the 1980s with my husband (although everyone said the Germans never let the really great Rotts outside of Germany). Some people we knew used German when obedience training their Rotts, but I never got past Fuß and Schutzhund ;)
This is an interesting site (link below), but the videos are 15 minutes to watch - a Chinese-American married a German girl and was determined to speak German so he could talk to his in-laws. It's a very cute story, and after 3 months, he taped a 20 minute conversation with his FIL, not perfect, but pretty damn good.
"Until Julia, my father-in-law (Papa), and I went on an epic 8-day, 96-mile hike, climbing 9,186 feet through the Austrian Alps (at right).
Since Papa cannot speak a word of English, Julia was doing all the translation during the entire hiking trip. I just thought that it was not very cool on my part.
Even though Papa took me to a torture museum the first time I met him 8 years ago, he had accepted me, a Chinese American, into his traditional Austrian family with open arms.
So by the end of our hiking trip, I decided that it was finally time for me to learn German.
After I came home from the trip, I started doing research on what is the best and fastest way to learn a new language."
http://hackthesystem.com/blog/how-to-learn-a-language-5-hacks-to-learning-german-in-3-months/
morrobay:
Hi Mariska,
can you please help me with subtitles again?
Right before this scene where Kay comes up after Marc in his car and they argue on the side of the road. Kay tells Marc that he should just admit to being gay.
But then I’ve seen 2 different subtitles of what Kay says to Marc, right before he hits Kay.
Marc, it isn’t easy for me...
Marc, you wouldn’t....
What does he really say to Marc?
thanks for your help
mariska:
Hi, I had to watch that scene again because I couldn't remember that Kay said anything. But he did.In English itwould be like: for me it is not.........too. I think he wanted to say easy but he could not finish the sentence. The word easy is in german the last word of that sentence. Literally translated he said: for me it is also not.........and then marc hits him :'(
mariska:
Can you image? I saw that movie at least ten times but I never noticed that kay said something.
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