I am trying to learn German

[Avalon1984]

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You'd be amazed how much of the country is actually countryside. It is a beautiful country and I miss it dearly. You are right though, you need to drive a few hours from whichever airport you arrive at to start seeing the "real" Germany. Here is my village www.kleinschmalkalden.de

 

[Peaches Lee]

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Exactly!!

 

[Avalon1984]

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I loved watching Forest Gump in German. All the old 80's and 90's TV shows were all translated too and the voices they used are always so different

 

[Avalon1984]

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Exactly!!

The real hilarious thing was trying to teach my husband words and terms in "platt deutsch" which is the real old country accent, kind of like the Southern Twang here. Schoenen Tach auch!

 

[Bantimna]

Forrest, I am utterly jealous that you could understand most of Omar's post! I could read Deutsch to save my life, and what makes it worst is that most of my friends are German. Ahh...well Guten Nacht here and Guten Morgaan (don't know if that was spelled right?) there to people in the morning side of the planet.

@Ewesheep, German though doesn't always have a musical rythm to it, if said in different ways can be a delight to listen to. Same as French, is said with a hoarse voice is couldn't come out all wacky...

Bant

 

[Mattemma]

Ich gehe in die stadt is all I recall from my school lessons.

Ah,and then Ich liebe dich!

 

[annie3001]

i dont speak it. my grandparents did. i am just half german. i love our german heritage. our daughter has a german name, which i made sure she had.

I plan to visit germany sometime during my lifetime.

 

[yinepu]

My grandmother and grandfather on my mother's side were both born in Germany.. when they came to the US my grandmother learned english.. but my grandfather never did..
So my mother would speak fluent german around her parents.. but not so much at home.. I grew up being able to speak some of it.. but I was so lost trying to read it! So in high school I took 2 years of german.. however that was back in the 70's.. so I have forgotten 99.9999999% of what I knew.. I still do better hearing it than reading it for some weird reason.. but it's been a very long time since I was around anyone speaking german on a regular basis

 

[Avalon1984]

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My husband is the exact same way. I guess his mother used to sing German nursery songs to him and he remembers some of it but sluaghtered most of the language. It is very interesting what gets passed on from one generation to the next.

 

[mom'sfolly]

I lived in Germany for a year as an exchange student. Unfortunately all I can remember is dialect, which is what everyone around me spoke, and I can't remember much of that. The dialect is much softer and drops some sounds....so

I ka Schwabisch schwatze....sort of. Which means Ich kann Schwabisch sprechen.
Krombeira = kartoffel = potatoes

I can still read some German though.