German-question

[Tender Branson]

Inspired by Biden's running gal thread.

Me: native German speaker.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I know some.
Velt (World)
Mund (Moon)
Das, Die, Der (articles, have no idea how to use them - I heard one of them is for objects, articles?)
Frau (Miss, term of respect towards women)
Freheit (Freedom)
Streben (Strive)
Alle (All)
Gott (God)
Land (State)
Reich (Realm)
Doktor (Doctor)
Bleu (Blue)
Stadt (City)
Himmel (Sky)
Fur (For)
Ja (Yes)
Nein (No)
Mein (My)
Lied (Song)
Volk (People)
Nord (North)
Sud (South)
Kultur (Culture)
Afrika (Africa), Amerika (America), and other cases where c is turned into k
I know I'm missing quite. And yes, I am completely ignoring the sign that appears on top of u letters in particular - my keyboard doesn't render them.

[parochial boy]

It's basically good enough for day to day interactions. I can watch a movie, read a newspaper, go to a doctor's appointment, deal with anything I need to deal with in German - but I wouldn't say it's fluent by any means. I won't be producing any academic texts in German any time soon, and I still make loads of grammatical errors when speaking or writing - and it was recently brought to my attention that I have a fairly pronounced French accent. But given that a year ago I could barely even order a beer in German I would say I'm pretty happy with my progress.

[Technocracy Timmy]

My great grandparents made sure I wouldn’t have to speak german.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Between 2 and 3. I would say proficient/semi-fluent,
/upper-intermediate (if that makes sense).

Studied for 12 years, regularly use it in social life and at work, can watch videos and listen to conversations without necessarily understanding everything but understand the vast majority and get the point, i still sometimes have to ask people to speak a bit slower or not use very complex structures.

The difficulty of German for me is the complex sentence structure. I find Italian and Swedish much easier to learn and understand because of this. I still have a lot of issues with der, die, und das in German, but it doesn't impede understanding the same way the sentence structure does. But goal is definitely to become fluent within the next decade, and have also strongly considered Germany as a Plan B if Sweden doesn't work out or if the opportunity arises (people are much nicer, the weather is better, and the beer cheaper in Deutschland )

[Former President tack50]

I studied German back in high school and I got to quite a high level in fact. Allegedly by the time I finished high school I had a C1 level of German but that is most definitely not true (I also have a C1 level of English and even at the time my English was a million times better than my German)

In any case, because I have never practiced German since I left high school, my German proficiency has dropped like a rock. I imagine I must be somewhere around B1 levels if not lower.

So basic vacation German, enough to talk with a cashier or something, but if I ever moved to Germany or something I would have to re-learn the language.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

You are Protestant yet accuse Martin Luther of destroying Europe.
Curious!

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

You are Protestant yet accuse Martin Luther of destroying Europe.
Curious!

Technically I'm Anglo-Catholic.  But the Reformation was going to happen whether a G*rman was responsible or not.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

You are Protestant yet accuse Martin Luther of destroying Europe.
Curious!

Technically I'm Anglo-Catholic.  But the Reformation was going to happen whether a G*rman was responsible or not.

I apologize if I caused any offense; the combo of NC, religious, and just...everything else I know about you gave me the impression you were a Baptist.

[Tender Branson]

I know some.
Velt (World) - Welt
Mund (Moon) - Mund = mouth, Mond = moon
Das, Die, Der (articles, have no idea how to use them - I heard one of them is for objects, articles?) Neutral, female, male articles.
Frau (Miss, term of respect towards women)
Freheit (Freedom) - Freiheit
Streben (Strive)
Alle (All)
Gott (God)
Land (State)
Reich (Realm)
Doktor (Doctor)
Bleu (Blue) - blau
Stadt (City)
Himmel (Sky)
Fur (For) - für
Ja (Yes)
Nein (No)
Mein (My)
Lied (Song)
Volk (People)
Nord (North) - Norden
Sud (South) - Süden
Kultur (Culture)
Afrika (Africa), Amerika (America), and other cases where c is turned into k

I know I'm missing quite. And yes, I am completely ignoring the sign that appears on top of u letters in particular - my keyboard doesn't render them.

Not bad.

I corrected a few things for you.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

You are Protestant yet accuse Martin Luther of destroying Europe.
Curious!

Technically I'm Anglo-Catholic.  But the Reformation was going to happen whether a G*rman was responsible or not.

I apologize if I caused any offense; the combo of NC, religious, and just...everything else I know about you gave me the impression you were a Baptist.

oh dear

[Tender Branson]

If you have any questions about German, don’t hesitate to ask me.

I have enough time today.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I know some.
Velt (World) - Welt
Mund (Moon) - Mund = mouth, Mond = moon
Das, Die, Der (articles, have no idea how to use them - I heard one of them is for objects, articles?) Neutral, female, male articles.Frau (Miss, term of respect towards women)
Freheit (Freedom) - Freiheit
Streben (Strive)
Alle (All)
Gott (God)
Land (State)
Reich (Realm)
Doktor (Doctor)
Bleu (Blue) - blau
Stadt (City)
Himmel (Sky)
Fur (For) - für
Ja (Yes)
Nein (No)
Mein (My)
Lied (Song)
Volk (People)
Nord (North) - Norden
Sud (South) - Süden
Kultur (Culture)
Afrika (Africa), Amerika (America), and other cases where c is turned into k

I know I'm missing quite. And yes, I am completely ignoring the sign that appears on top of u letters in particular - my keyboard doesn't render them.

Not bad.

I corrected a few things for you.

Yeah I think the few spelling mistakes were
Velt was me spelling it the way it was pronounced (usually I do not misspell that word that way), which is not a good idea. Otherwise the Capital of Austria would start with the same sound as English words like wait and waste. W in German is (usually?) a V.
Mond was I guess a case of a straight-up misremembering of recently acquired info, so I switched out an O with a U.
Fur is covered by the umlaut exemption.
Also, isn't Norden and Suden more analagous to "northern" and "southern", with Sud and Nord used for generic compass points?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

You are Protestant yet accuse Martin Luther of destroying Europe.
Curious!

Technically I'm Anglo-Catholic.  But the Reformation was going to happen whether a G*rman was responsible or not.

I apologize if I caused any offense; the combo of NC, religious, and just...everything else I know about you gave me the impression you were a Baptist.

oh dear

Are you mad?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Are you mad?

No, but the chances of me becoming a Baptist are roughly the same of me becoming a Roman Catholic: zero.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Are you mad?

No, but the chances of me becoming a Baptist are roughly the same of me becoming a Roman Catholic: zero.

Do you know of any Roman Catholics or Baptists in your immediate family?

[Tender Branson]

I know some.
Velt (World) - Welt
Mund (Moon) - Mund = mouth, Mond = moon
Das, Die, Der (articles, have no idea how to use them - I heard one of them is for objects, articles?) Neutral, female, male articles.Frau (Miss, term of respect towards women)
Freheit (Freedom) - Freiheit
Streben (Strive)
Alle (All)
Gott (God)
Land (State)
Reich (Realm)
Doktor (Doctor)
Bleu (Blue) - blau
Stadt (City)
Himmel (Sky)
Fur (For) - für
Ja (Yes)
Nein (No)
Mein (My)
Lied (Song)
Volk (People)
Nord (North) - Norden
Sud (South) - Süden
Kultur (Culture)
Afrika (Africa), Amerika (America), and other cases where c is turned into k

I know I'm missing quite. And yes, I am completely ignoring the sign that appears on top of u letters in particular - my keyboard doesn't render them.

Not bad.

I corrected a few things for you.

Yeah I think the few spelling mistakes were
Velt was me spelling it the way it was pronounced (usually I do not misspell that word that way), which is not a good idea. Otherwise the Capital of Austria would start with the same sound as English words like wait and waste. W in German is (usually?) a V.
Mond was I guess a case of a straight-up misremembering of recently acquired info, so I switched out an O with a U.
Fur is covered by the umlaut exemption.
Also, isn't Norden and Suden more analagous to "northern" and "southern", with Sud and Nord used for generic compass points?

It is pronounced „Veen“ or „Weene“. But in western Austria, „Wean“ (wea-uhn).

Norden & Süden = North & South (to indicate a broader region)
Nördlich & Südlich = Northern & Southern (direction)
Nord & Süd = mostly used in geographical context such as Nordkalifornien (Northern California) to combine a region or state or ocean.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Are you mad?

No, but the chances of me becoming a Baptist are roughly the same of me becoming a Roman Catholic: zero.

Do you know of any Roman Catholics or Baptists in your immediate family?

My mother's side is basically all Roman Catholic except for my atheist cousins.  My dad's side (whom I no longer communicate with for... reasons) are very WASP-y mainline Protestants.

[windjammer]

I reached the B2 level in German. Currently studying it until I reach the C1 level.

[Illiniwek]

Between options 2 and 3. I took four years of German and understand it decently well. But I just do not have a tongue for speaking foreign language in the moment. So I am not what you would call a fluent speaker.

[brucejoel99]

I don't speak German &, as of right now, would have no intention to learn it.

[bagelman]

Don't speak German (but could imagine learning it)

However, I could imagine a whole lot of things.

[President Johnson]

Native German speaker, obviously.

I can speak Standard German and Swabian (I kao schwäbisch schwätza).

[Del Tachi]

If you have any questions about German, don’t hesitate to ask me.

I have enough time today.

Question:  what advantage do you think learning German would have for your average English-speaking American?