The terrible German language

Korin said:
Funnily enough I was reading an article recently about Arnold Schwarzenegger when he did the Terminator movies. They were going to do a German release and he offered to dub his own acting because he "spoke fluent German" but once the German producers heard him speak they said he "sounded like a backwoods farmer" and would have made the character a laughing stock.
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As opposed to him performing a role in English?
 
Well we Germans have obviously higher standards. And Arnold is from Austria. Not the same! NOT. THE. SAME!
 
Hassknecht said:
I might not be in Bavaria for some time anyway, as I said, I'm from Western Germany near Düsseldorf so I'll be with my family for a few days, too.

This is a bit closer to my home dialect (even though it's a rather terrible representation of actual Cologne dialect). No, I don't speak that, either.
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That's actually closer to where we'll be, her family lives in Recklinghausen. Pretty much most of the places we've gone are around there (Essen, Dortmund, Koln, Munster, etc)

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Korin said:
That's actually closer to where we'll be, her family lives in Recklinghausen. Pretty much most of the places we've gone are around there (Essen, Dortmund, Koln, Munster, etc)

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Heh, that's very close to where my father is from, he's a bit further north near Bocholt. I'll be near Mönchengladbach. Just say the word and I'll make sure to drop by!
 
Hassknecht said:
Heh, that's very close to where my father is from, he's a bit further north near Bocholt. I'll be near Mönchengladbach. Just say the word and I'll make sure to drop by!
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Yeah, I'll hit you up! She wants to spend time with her new nephew (her brother just has a child) and I'll probably have a free day. Hopefully I'll know enough German to survive on my own.
 
Korin said:
Yeah, I'll hit you up! She wants to spend time with her new nephew (her brother just has a child) and I'll probably have a free day. Hopefully I'll know enough German to survive on my own.
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"Ein Bier, bitte!" is the most important sentence, as you probably already know.
 
My struggle today:

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But the answer is "The man drinks also hot milk"

Does: "Der Mann auch trinkt heiße milch" not make sense? I find I'm having to read/write ahead in German and then work backwards through the sentence

Also:
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"You are not turn"?
 
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Korin said:
My struggle today:

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But the answer is "The man drinks also hot milk"

Does: "Der Mann auch trinkt heiße milch" not make sense? I find I'm having to read/write ahead in German and then work backwards through the sentence
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No, word position is important in German.
Korin said:
Also:
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"You are not turn"?
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More like "You are not next in line".
"Dran sein" or "Als Nächster dran sein" means "being next in line".
 
Yeah, adverbs and negatives are killin' me. I was doing well until I got to these:

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"That makes nothing" is how I read that
 
Korin said:
Yeah, adverbs and negatives are killin' me. I was doing well until I got to these:

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"That makes nothing" is how I read that
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I think there's only so far you can learn German through Duolingo etc. You ought to visit Germany, maybe shack up with Hass & Crni (they live together, right?), cook breakfast for them, etc. You'll learn German more effectively.
 
MutantScalper said:
I think there's only so far you can learn German through Duolingo etc. You ought to visit Germany, maybe shack up with Hass & Crni (they live together, right?), cook breakfast for them, etc. You'll learn German more effectively.
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I always thought @Crni Vuk was Russian for some reason
 
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