I will spend every day of my life studying this language and practising it, and will probably move to Germany for a few years because I love it so much.
Unfortunately I have no idea where to start! I've been reading the German wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German) -- are there any better or more comprehensive books I could get on the subject? Cost is no problem, German kicks ass.
If u want really learn everyday look here: http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/html/wliste.html
1d = 7words
10 = 70words
100 = 700words =)
>>17 Thank you this site will help improve my french
>>15
This is actually a very accurate portrayal.
the best way is to learn the basics and than watch german movies or something like that. but the grammar isn´t easy but possible^^
and u are right: german does kick as (of course im german)
Learning german is easy if you speak a germanic language like english yourself
Can you suggest me any interesting german sites? I know about der spiegel and DW...
>>22
jpgames.de is nice for japanese video games news.
Just dont go to krautchan, it is shit
I doubt the OP is still here, but if anybody is interested, I've been using the "Teach Yourself German" from 1963 by John Adams. It's a bit outdated, but you'll get an extremely thorough introduction to the language. It consists of grammar lessons, learning vocabulary, and then doing translation exercises from English to German and vice versa. I've only done about 15 exercises and I can understand the simple posts in this thread.
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I've been studying French for quite a while now, and yet I still have trouble! I was wondering if any fluent speaker could help me with some of these, of which I only have a basic understanding:
I understand that these can be quite difficult to explain, but I would really appreciate the help.
(v´▽`)v merci!
du = some; for masculine nouns
du pain = some bread (or just bread, quite nuanced)
de la = some; for feminine noun
de la tarte = some pie (or piece of pie, find out with context)
de = some; for words with an apostrophe pronounce "l'"
de l'or = some gold, de l'eau = some water (both genders: or is masculine, eau is feminine.)
des = some; plural
des batons = some staves
elle = she
il = he
both il and elle are nominative.
>>1
I'm not sure if you need some help still. But I feel as though I should elaborate on >>2-kun's explanation of lui.
Lui is the indirect object. In English we use the indirect object when we use the prepositions "to" or "for". For instance, "I gave this gift to him" or "I wrote this poem for her". We can also use different word order: "I gave him this gift" or "I wrote her this poem." French uses lui for both "him" and "her", but it is always used as an indirect object.
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>>4
Yeah, I don't like it either.
For me, it's "assumptuous," as in, someone who assumes things a lot is an "assumptuous" person.
>>8
So "hight" is like the verb "heta" (=to be called, or named) in Swedish? Or heissen in German?
About "overmorrow", it's like the Finnish word ylihuominen: yli means over and morrow, well, could mean huominen.
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>>9
I would like to point out that "overmorrow" also exists in Swedish. "Överimorgon". I will assume overmorrow exists in the other scandinavian languages as well, as it would be pretty odd if it didn't.
English needs an equivalent of the Swedish dygn. It's the word for 24 hours. Knowing the amount of words English has, it's pretty weird that this meaning is also inside the word day. Could be because of the AM/PM stuff I guess.
isnt "to be named" sort of what "am" is used for, "I AM Squeek" / "I HIGHT Squeek"????????????????????????????????
i think the word "parropen" should be in the dictionary, as a cross between a parrot and can opener, for convenience when sayin the commonly used phrase "that parrot opened my can", this can be replaced with "my can has been parropened"...thoughts anyone?
hmm good point such an addition as 'parropen' could EASILY avoid common asshattery (also a word) in every pirates day to day routine!
Overmorgen exists in the dutch language, as in Overmorrow.
I agree that it feels and sounds very good.
>>9
Yes, both of those words come from the same proto-germanic root.
In Old English, the verb was "hatan." It was typically used intransitively, and as such, it was one of the few verbs that retained a genuine passive-voice that wasn't formed by a helping verb, as in Modern English. So, to say "my name is", all one had to say was "ic hate" (I am called.) But another way one frequently encounters is by using the indefinite pronoun "man" (one), so for instance, "man mec hætt" (one calls me)
Hight was used at least until the 1600s. One poem was written on the death of the composer Thomas Tallis. It contains the line:
His name to shew, was THOMAS TALLYS hyght.
In this example, we see that hight was used passively.
Anyway, I doubt it would ever catch on. One of the biggest reasons, besides it being archaic, is that it is a homophone with height.
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bakachan sucks
El unico image/text board bueno en español es BaI, pero es demasiado lento ;_;
>>28,29,30
holi bakachan devs!
>>34
se parece a 4chan
Acá una nueva que encontré: http://nueceschan.org
>>29-31,37
Más clones de 4chan sin nada nuevo que ofrecer excepto por reglas autoritarias.
Como si les sobraran los usuarios, lol.
>>38
No estoy de acuerdo contigo, hablas siendo ignorante y sólo palabrería barata. Acabo de entrar al sitio y siendo bien honestos está decente en cuanto al contenido que se está albergando. Tampoco noté cáncer como en otros IB, que de hecho, sí las hay y bastante...
>>39
keate kayao lonji ql k veni a ablar weas feo ql
toos los lnhjis k ablan d weas d cancer son DECUENE
>>39
¿Aún hay gente que usa el término "cáncer" en relación a contenido?
Most native english speakers just dont realize that the whole world can speak english almost fluently, and that english is absolutely the easiest language in the world. I can read Dickens in english but can YOU read Dostoevsky or Sarte in the original? No, most of you can not do this, admit it anglos, you are stupid at learning languages, swedish teenages speak better english than you.
Just a fact
Ps:
My native tongue is Russian and I can speak fluent english just because I played ps1 games in my childhood. This is not a joke or a trolling attempt.
You all are stupid at learning foreign languages...
Pps.
Sorry for what Putin did. No all of us are like this.
Pps:
Dont let google fool you with their translator tool
Learn english, because every educated person must speak fluent english
No need to be sorry for Putin, better be sorry for electing this abomination (obongo)
More news at 12
Who gives a crap about Russian, Puting, English and O'bama.
Everyone knows the up and coming language of languages is Esperanto.
I am from Nigeria and I speak fluent english.
Hi!
I'm form Canada and I speak French and German fluently. Russians can't Englsih at all. Your an exception, your talking better than me.
No need to be sorry for Putin, because Strelkov did it.
yes, Putin is a dictator but still he is not Gaddafi.
English is no longer foreign language anymore
So I graduated from middle school this year (germany). This means that I had to choose if I wanted to learn Latin for another year and get the Latin proficiency certificate that I would most likely fail anyways. I obviously chose not to go for another year and choose Japanese instead which is more fun to learn and actually useful as opposed to latin. Why am I posting this? I simply want to put my infinite harted for latin into words. There is nothing in this world that would make me do those 4 years over again. It was hell. The very moment you decide to not learn for one test or something THAT'S IT! YOU'RE DONE FOR THE NEXT 2 OR 3 YEARS. If you don't have EVERYTHING in your brain there is no chance in hell that you'll pass that next test. My friend chose to learn latin for another year. We all know that it'll be very hard. I wish him strenght. I'm afraid he might not make it. If you live in germany and plan on having kids or have kids that are going to have to chose between latin and french try to make them chose french. It's also fucking hrd but the lesser evil in my opinion. And it's again actually useful.
To all the latin students: Never give up!
Failed Latin in high school. It was the only class I've ever failed in my life.
No regrets.
hey
i'm very interested in chinese but i don't know where to start, i thought about learning the hanzi but, does mandarin use the same ideograms? do i have to learn mandarin or traditional chinese?
any good methods?
I suggest you learn Mandarin, which is spoken by most of Chinese people. The easiest way is to find a Chinese girlfriend lol.
i want to learn chinese too.. what the first step to learn chinese? and its not easy to get chinese girlfriend if they cannot speak english u know.. lol
Did you really just say mandarin or traditional?
mandarin and cantonese are the 2 main chinese dialects.
also, the methods of writing are simplifed and traditional, simplified was made to increase the literacy rate sometime around Mao and all the prgressive communist stuff
I speak some Mandarin due to where I grew up and taking it in school.
Mandarin is what most speak, so unless you want to like - go to Hong Kong, just learn Mandarin.
I recommend starting out learning some traditional and then transitioing into simplified (there are many shared characters and simplified just makes some of them faster to write) Traditional is dumb in the long run really.
As for where to start I'd say try to look for some software or a book that you can get cheap or for free and look up more stuff online.
some links from my high school Chinese/math teacher
Dont do it. It is crazy chink-spik, and GT is perfect with it.
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