Post by ihrian on Mar 21, 2007 21:34:23 GMT -5
ok, well, Trommler asked me to start a german board the other week...so now i'll get around to it...i dont quite know where to start, and when i get up to it, i'll post up my lessons from school..i wish i'd kept my yr 8 books now, would make it easier for me..but oh well!! help out if you know it!
i think i'll employ the help of wikipedia and other sites...
german is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. German is closely related to English and Dutch. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 95 to 120 million native speakers and another 20 million non-native speakers, and is widely taught in schools and universities in Europe. Worldwide, German accounts for the most written translations into and from a language.
there are many different dialects in germany, with most areas having thier own. in some places, if one moves from their hometown to another area, they cannot understand the language spoken, even though it is german...this makes it difficult for students of the language, for if people who are native speakers cant understand different dialects of their own language, what hope can we have? however, there is Hochdeutsch, which is the proper form of german, and is spoken in most schools, in classes...students probably convert back to their dialect/slang during lunchtimes. at school at the moment, we have a swiss exchange student, who comes to our german lessons...he so much of a better english speaker than we are german, but there are some things we learn that he doesnt know, because the swiss form of german isnt the same as the hochdeutsch.
anyway, moving on...
in german, each object has a gender, either feminine, masculine or neutral. these are distinguished by either die, der, or das in front of the word. these must be learnt with the word as you learn the word, there is no real way of knowing otherwise which it will be. so say, you were learning the word for kitchen, you would say die kuche.
hmm...(help me!!!)
maybe soon i shall post the alphabet and pronounciation...but i have to go to lunch
i think i'll employ the help of wikipedia and other sites...
german is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. German is closely related to English and Dutch. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 95 to 120 million native speakers and another 20 million non-native speakers, and is widely taught in schools and universities in Europe. Worldwide, German accounts for the most written translations into and from a language.
there are many different dialects in germany, with most areas having thier own. in some places, if one moves from their hometown to another area, they cannot understand the language spoken, even though it is german...this makes it difficult for students of the language, for if people who are native speakers cant understand different dialects of their own language, what hope can we have? however, there is Hochdeutsch, which is the proper form of german, and is spoken in most schools, in classes...students probably convert back to their dialect/slang during lunchtimes. at school at the moment, we have a swiss exchange student, who comes to our german lessons...he so much of a better english speaker than we are german, but there are some things we learn that he doesnt know, because the swiss form of german isnt the same as the hochdeutsch.
anyway, moving on...
in german, each object has a gender, either feminine, masculine or neutral. these are distinguished by either die, der, or das in front of the word. these must be learnt with the word as you learn the word, there is no real way of knowing otherwise which it will be. so say, you were learning the word for kitchen, you would say die kuche.
hmm...(help me!!!)
maybe soon i shall post the alphabet and pronounciation...but i have to go to lunch