her german is almost accent free
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Paoly_87 — 19 years ago(March 22, 2007 11:31 PM)
She's half German and she attended a German school as a kid.
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stepotronic — 19 years ago(April 03, 2007 05:06 PM)
I'm also german and i have to add that sometimes the grammar of the german passages is also wrong
Or Maybe i mix it up with the passages of the so called german guy in that one episode. Hermann? I don't really remember, but there were a lot of mistakes in that episode. -
lil96 — 19 years ago(April 06, 2007 08:59 AM)
She probably learned French becuase she is from Canada. But I might be mistaken, but I think she learned French, not French, latin or spanish (or portuguese or romanian). She learned just one language.
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bluerisk — 19 years ago(April 06, 2007 03:42 PM)
Naja, dein Englisch ist ja fast so schlecht wie das meinige (=> 8 Pkt. Grundkurs).
Sie hat wohl Franzsisch gelernt, weil a) Frauen genrell ein Handling fr Sprachen haben, b) es 5b4in Kanada eine groe frz.-sprachige Gemeinde gibt und c) diese sehr darum bemht ist die frz. Sprache zu pflegen.
Dein Argument, dass Franzsisch Teil der romanischen bzw. Englisch und Deutsch Teil der germanischen Sprachfamilie sind und es frderhin unntig sei mehrere Sprachen aus einer Familie zu lernen, halte ich fr illlegitim. Warum sollte ich dann z.B. noch Latein lernen?
berhaupt mgen die Sprache verwand sein, aber sie bleiben doch jeweils fr sich eigenstndige Entitten.
I too am bilingual ist z.B. ziemlich daneben:
Ich bin auch zweisprachig. => Deutsch
I am too belingual. => Englisch, wortwrtlich bersetzt
I'm bilingual too. => Englisch wie man es wohl korrekt anwenden wrde.
Oder:
I'm also bilingual.
Ich htte z.B. auch eher geschrieben:
I might be wrong
oder
She learned just a language.
Englisch ist lngst nicht so verwand mit dem Deutschen wie es einst mal war.
Whrend Deutsch noch immer eine flektierende Sprache ist, entwickelt das Englische starke Tendenzen zur isolierenden Sprache.
Hinzu kommen noch Unterschiede in der Syntax (I often play football und nicht wie im Deutschen Ich spiele oft Fuball).
Auch werden die Zeiten teilweise anders angewand.
I know what you did last summer => Ich wei was du letzten Sommer getan hast.
Prteritum vs. 5b4Perfekt
Wenn die Handlung zeitlich determiniert ist (last summer), wird im Engl. die unvollendete Vergangeheit benutzt, ansonsten die vollendete Gegenwart. Im Deutschen hingegen wird immer das Perfekt benutzt.
Im Englischen gibt es zudem eine Verlaufsform, im Deutschen (in der Standardsprache) hingegen nicht.
Es gibt noch viele Beispiele, wo sich die Deutsche und Englische Sprache unterscheiden.
Bei einem Europer knnte es in Sinn machen Deutsch, Englisch und Franzsisch zu lernen, da dies die drei hufigsten Sprachen der EU sind.
In Kanada ist es naheliegend Franzsisch zu lernen; bei Chalke kommt noch hinzu, dass sie Deutsche Eltern hat.
Ich bin kein ausgeklgelt Buch, ich bin ein Mensch mit seinem Widerspruch.
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ranmalein — 18 years ago(December 17, 2007 10:44 AM)
a german judging somebody else's german grammar? funny
i'm from austria (so sorry about the racist comment lol it was just a joke ;] )
in my opninion she did very good. sure, it's not accent-free, but she did a good job. i could understand her, and i can't think of any other movie oder tv-show where the germans are understandable and they often make big grammar mistakes!
anyway, i really think it's quite interesting how ignorant americans can be (yeah, it still surprises me!) why do you think it's totally normal everyone else learns english but you don't have to learn any foreign language? i only speak german and english, i should be able to speak french (5 years in school and i can't even make smalltalk ;D )and wish i could speak some other languages, i'm just too lazy to learn them hihi
anyway, i do understand people don't want to learn german. it sure is a difficult language, maybe especially when you only speak english! the grammar really is extremely different!
anyway, i'm not trying to discourage anyone here lol
nur mut, ihr schafft das!
"Angel Investigation - we hope you're helpless" - Doyle -
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ranmalein — 18 years ago(February 23, 2008 02:51 AM)
i'm not judging americans based on imdb. and i'm not talking about all americans, of course not! but i'd say there are a lot more ignorant americans than most other countries. it's not the people's fault, really. it all starts in school, i guess. you don't have to learn things that are totally normal to learn in other countries, like austria. and the less you know, the more ignorant you get. it's sad you don't have to learn as much geography or languages as people have to in other countries.
"Angel Investigation - we hope you're helpless" - Doyle -
Sally1829 — 12 years ago(April 18, 2013 05:26 PM)
"anyway, i really think it's quite interesting how ignorant americans can be (yeah, it still surprises me!) why do you think it's totally normal everyone else learns english but you don't have to learn any foreign language? i only speak german and english, i should be able to speak french (5 years in school and i can't even make smalltalk ;D )and wish i could speak some other languages, i'm just too lazy to learn them hihi "
It is totally disgraceful that we don't learn any other languages in school as children. On the other hand, (1) English is the international language of business, so we're set there, and (2) the entirety of Europe, with its 6+ languages, is less than 1/2 the size of the US. In other words, you can get on a train and go to places were people speak other languages. People who speak other languages can get on trains and visit you. Here, our northern neighbors speak English (yes, and Quebecois, but mostly English). If Austria were the size of the US and the world's business were conducted in the Austrian dialect of German, Austrians probably wouldn't learn English and French as children.
By which I meanyeah, it is a shame. On the other hand, there are some good reasons why languages haven't been a priority in the USA. And, if other populations faced circumstances similar to ours, they might just readjust their priorities accordingly. That said, I speak broken German (studied it in high school and college) and a little French, and I really wish I'd had earlier and more comprehensive language training. -
HalfBrokenGlass — 19 years ago(April 09, 2007 08:04 PM)
Woah, German is NOT similar to English. I speak fluent English and can understand about 3 words in Germanall because my mom and fiance both learned it in school.
Similar languages are things like Spanish and Italian. I speak Spanish and can understand about half of the things that are said in Italian (I can't speak it, of course, but I can understand it).
Your husband has demanded that we sleep together. -
lil96 — 18 years ago(April 10, 2007 07:22 AM)
English is a descendant of German languages. Thereare many similarities in the two, if someone is speaking Bavarian b68(a dialect of German), words are said the same even though they are spelled different- fire feuer both pronounced like english fire
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rednelak-imdb — 18 years ago(October 06, 2007 08:05 AM)
I found the youtube clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=C3oh0Spk_U0
As a german, I would say it's understandable but not accent free; it's typical "american german accent", I think
Hm I discovered this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zfo1rjHUrKc here she speaks better german, but the accents sounds like german speaking people from netherlands^^ -
KrefTL — 10 years ago(March 13, 2016 11:27 AM)
No. For German is not the same as Germanic. German is todays language in Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Germanic is an ancient language and common root to modern languages like German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch or English.
German and English are West Germanic languages. They separated more than a thousand years ago. So if you say, that English is a descendant of German, that is simply wrong, English, just like German, is a descendant of the West Germanic language.
