Preserved Topic: German

Hey, I just have some questions for one of our German speaking inmates here at the Asylum, about my German homework, so, here It goes...We have a list of about 50 questions and need to make answers for each, I finished most of them, but I had a couple of questions about some answers:

1. On questions such as Wei alt ist er?, would you reply Er ist 21 (or age) jahr alt, Er ist 21 (or age), or is that answer wrong altogether. And I'm talking about what a normal german would say, which is how our German teacher is teaching us, instead of using the book.

2. For the question Bist du ein Schwein? In your reply, would you say Nein, ich hofftlich, or is hofftlich spelled wrong/used in the wrong context etc... (and please, no replys of: The correct answer is "Ja"

Thats it...

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The Question is: "Wie alt ist er?" not Wei
and the anser is: "Er ist 21 Jahre alt."
in common german you can drop the Jahre alt, so: "Er ist 21."

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you probably mean "hoffentlich" which means something like "i hope so"
so i dont really understand what you want to answer. maybe give it in english and i'll translate.

The question, Bist du ein Schwein means Are you a pig, so I replyed with Nein, ich hofftlich, which I learned should be Nein, ich hoffenlich, which would be No, I hope not. ( Is this correct, did I do something wrong? ) Thanks a lot GRUMBLE, I've been working to get my grade up from a b to an a in german, and I've been going into a perfectionist mode on everyhing.


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German is a cool language. I should take it next semester.

ahhh. ok, then the answer would be: "Nein, hoffentlich nicht."


hmmm...
but still in reality i would reply something like: "No, of course not!"
which would be: "Nein, natürlich nicht!"

Ok, thanks GRUMBLE, that was a real help! I'm hoping to take GERMAN enough to become fluent in it. Anyways, thanks again!

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I'm hoping to take GERMAN enough to become fluent in it. Anyways, thanks again!

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May I offer some advice? Taking a language in school is not enough to get you fluent, no matter how long you may take it. If you're really interested in becoming fluent in German, I would look into some exchange programs when you get into university--spending a semester or year in Germany will do wonders for your fluency. Of course, keep studying German in school, just don't stop there.

Cell 270

I am hoping to go to Germany something, my German teacher (possibly the coolest teacher ever), said that the school offers a 30 week exchange-style program to germany. I also know that she takes trips to Germany. Anyways, cool language, and thanks for the help.

Suho: How hard is Korean really? I've heard its one of the easier Oriental languages, but I've also heard that Japanese is easy (in comparisan of course! )

You've heard that Korean is one of the easier Asian languages? And where did you hear this? Korean is generally perceived to be one of the harder Asian languages for English-speakers to learn, mostly due to the word order and the fact that Korean is highly inflected, I suppose.

I've studied Japanese as well, and Korean and Japanese are pretty much identical in the two aspects I mentioned above. In terms of pronunciation, though, Japanese is far easier. And in those two aspects, Chinese is easier than either Japanese or Korean. Mind you, we're talking about spoken language here--in terms of written language, difficulty would probably go Chinese, Japanese, Korean (from most difficult to least difficult--or least easy to most most easy, if you're a "the glass is half full" kind of guy).

That being said, Korean and Japanese are very similar in terms of grammar, and if you know one then learning the other is much easier.

Anyway... a 30-week exchange program to Germany? I say go for it. Studying abroad is one experience I feel all students should have, and of course it will help your German as well. Do whatever you have to do to sell your parents on the idea, just get your butt into that program!




Cell 270

I have to have taken at least 2 1/2 years of German first, and I would want to take at least that much before I went to Germany, because I would, well, just know more. The person that I talked to is Chinese, and knows Mandarin and (well, the one that starts with an H, kinda sounds like Hu-ron, I think that its a langage from the village where he grew up) anyways, ya, I wan't to go to Germany, I did before I took German, becuase Europe looks like a cool place in General. Of coures, my German is very limited now, because I've only been taking it for six weeks this Friday, but it seems to be a much more structured and more well-thought out language than American-English (I seperate this from British-English because of the way that sentances are structured etc...minor but large diffrences) anyways, to all of you bi,tri,or quad lingual people out ther: What is your favorite language?

Even though I don't know it, I'd say that the best sounding langauge that I've heard is Italian, and the most interesting is the Oriental languages, specificaly Thai.

I like the way Russian and German sound when spoken. They sound so...crude

I know English and French (and small amounts of Latin, soon that'll be long gone from my head though). Out of the two I like English more since I grew up speaking it and also because my French is a little rusty. Mais quand je le besoin, c'est là.

Hi counter,


As I was learning german I used this small dictionary and it was really handy!
http://www.wernerr.de/software-free/woebu_setup.exe

I found this to be excellent.
http://dict.leo.org/

it is updated all the time.

sib