@Korin is a Lausbub! Probably because it would be "Der Mann ist kein Brot". I think it makes more sense to use names. Because you wouldn't say "Der Tomas isst Brot nicht" but rather "Der Thomas isst sein Brot nicht" or "Der Thomas isst das Brot nicht" and "Der Thomas isst kein Brot". Or so I would think. But it's good to talk about bread. We Germans have probably as many types of Bread as we do in grammatical ways to express how we eat it. Seriously. Has any nation out there as many different types of bread as we Germans do? And even that doesn't cover everything.
The German language is just fine. But Little Boy and Fat Man should have been dropped on Germany instead of Japan. And someone needs to take care of Merkel. I mean, needed to take care of Merkel ages ago.
You don't know that really. We might as well be living in a future where Godzilla was a giant German lizard.
With all this Godzilla talk I've decided to google "German anime". I have to say that I've found what I expected Spoiler I think I'm alright living in a timeline where Japan was nuked instead of Germany.
"Der Bär frisst hundertdreiundzwanzig Fische." Translation: The bear is eating one hundred, three and twenty fish Why does this language have me doing math in my numbers? No wonder you're some kind of math genius @Hassknecht
My gosh... I had forgotten about that; French is like that too. I wonder how the rest of the world [languages] are handling this self-identified pronoun nonsense?
From what I had read it historically had a lot to do with languages that frequently were used in trade and also something about how highly/lowly that particular culture/location/people ranked for "uncertainty avoidance", so English as a language became a lot more ambiguous and a lot "dumber" so you didn't need to memorize so many cases:
It's just saying the second number first, and since it's consistent it's not that hard to remember. Dreiundzwanzig = Twentythree. It's not like french, where it's fucking retarded.
Got back into improving my German with all the Corona-stuff, I'm not a beginner but not really fluent either. German, and other languages, you kind of get rusty in if you don't practice them. Duolingo is ok, some things like the articles are annoying, I'm sort of trying to focus on the 'fun' stuff like phrases etc. Tested some other languages as well, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and I presume Icelandic are so similar that just by knowing Swedish I think I could be understood in those other countries. Danish may sound funny to us Finns but it's actually a nice language, Norwegian has some strange differences from Swedish. But for an average foreigner to learn Finnish...good luck.
Update: I've continued to learn and practice this language. I had taken a break from it in early 2019 and then picked it back up at the end of 2020. Today is now my 365th day streak in Duolingo. I spend at least 1 weekend day doing dedicated practice for 2-hours. The rest of the week I play various xbox games in German, listen to German Twitch streams, read German articles. I understand the cases pretty well but now struggle with the word order of long sentences. I would say right now that's my greatest hurdle, is being able to construct longer sentences and have the order be correct.
One of the best ways to learn might be to play Fallout 76 with Germans. You could kill people in your death claw maze bilingualy!
I've actually tried to play with Germans but they're hard to find and servers are regionally assigned The only speaking practice I get is mostly at the local Farmer's Market (we have a lot of German immigrants) as well as one German restaurant
Ever tried like I don't know, German Fallout forums? I think I learned more english speaking here than in school ...
That's not a bad idea... do those actually exist? Do people use forums anymore? I shall go on a quest.
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