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I always try to decipher their memes because they look funny.
Whenever I can figure one out through context I feel like a genius
Or when you try to read a word aloud and realize it's basically the same as the English word with 50% more consonents.
That's the meme. They translate English expressions, names and brands into German 1:1, disregarding any standing idioms and available translations. Hard to read even as a German native. Struggling to figure out what to OP meant is like 90% of the fun.
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That means you should start /c/moi_dlvv
Tbh I've kind of forgetten what little French I managed to learn earlier, so this wouldn't work for me either
I'm in the same boat with German sadly. Trying to relearn some though. Ich habe fast alles vorgessen.
I'm legit considering getting back to learning German to understand their memes, they look so juicy
I especially liked their sausage starter kit (can't find the meme now)
I took French in high school and barely scraped by. My wife took German and went on an exchange program for six weeks after high school and had a terrific time.
Close to 30 years later and I remember a lot of the French but she's forgotten most of the German.
So who's laughing now, huh?
Oh right, you got to have those six weeks in Germany. Merde.
You won cause you can insult the French in their own language. Your wife had to be in vague proximity with a 1990s French person.
You won cause you can insult the French in their own language.
Not as well as the French can insult me for being American. And in perfect English too, most likely.
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Comme by !rance@jlai.lu !
Je pense qu'on est moins nombreux mais on s'y amuse quand même.
Bonjour ! Je suis actuellement en train d'apprendre le Français. Suis-je invité ?
And that's a real freaking stretch for what I know. And apparently I can't pronounce most of it correctly
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C'est le probleme. Je vois !ich_iel tout le temps, mais !rance pas tellement.
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Learning French in the US is such a let down. Spanish is the unofficial second national language and German has the best memes.
What even is ich_iel?
Me_irl but german.
It’s better because every post with an English word gets
SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN
as a response
And yet when I try to SPRICH DEUTCH to actual live Germans they give me a pitying look and firmly reply in perfect English
perfect English
Such a thing does not exist in Germany.
Only because of their exacting standards. Even when I lived in Germany in the 90s the only time I had trouble understanding someone speaking English was when our realtor was trying to be racist but didn't know the English words.
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Grammar and syntax aside, it's basically /me_irl for our German-speaking compadres. Most other languages - French included - generally have a community analogous to most of the popular English-language communities.
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German jokes are the wurst.
You miss all of it. Learn German instead. Drop the French.
In case you're learning French to be able to work at a bigger French company - don't. You will be very unhappy. The basic reason is, French companies, even those who think they're "modern", are still run like Louis XIV's is the CEO. Like an extremely rigid, top-down, feudalistic little empire full of screaming bosses and servile employees.
As a German who speaks french: French is probably the easier language since you don't need to declinate words and only really use 3 forms for time.
Yes but at the same time german writing system is almost phonetic while french have many way to write one sound.
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I studied German in high school and then as an adult I traveled to India and studied Malayalam, the language of the southern-most state of Kerala. I was surprised at how similar Malayalam was to German (in terms of grammatical structure, not vocabulary) and learned that it's because of Hermann Gundert, a 19th Century German missionary who learned Malayalam (and a bunch of other Indian languages) and published its first formal grammar, more-or-less imposing German's grammatical structure onto it.
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For me it’s Dutch. The Dutch own late night Lemmy for me and I want to know what I’m missing.
I’ve picked up on Overleden though :(
Dutch looks like someone got really drunk and tried to combine English and German.
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guys i can read that shit and trust me you're not missing out on anything. if you could read those lame jokes, you'd block the community like i did
I've posted to ich_iel and I think it was funny 🫠
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Tu peux apprendre les deux ! Or join us on !rance@jlai.lu. Sure we are not as active as !ich_iel@feddit.org but maybe with your help will improve (^_^)
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Pro tip, you can use Google lens to translate (if you're like me and don't care as much about my privacy/have an android phone).
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French and German are similar but you just spit on people with different consonants
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