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Just out of pure curiosity: how many Germans (meaning German speakers) are on ns?
So do you speak German ja nein or vielleicht?

Ja. Also, Ich bin kein Deutsche und meine Grammatik ist schlecht aber ich glaube du kannst mir verstanden ...

ich spreche nur ein bischen Deutsch - ich habe es gelernt fur GCSE.

and that is about the extent of my german skillz... i was never very good at languages :(

but half my family does come from Germany - my oma and onkel live in Osnabruck and my tante lives in Nuremberg. my mum is a fluent speaker :)

Mein gesprochener Deutsch ist falsch geworden, obwohl meine Erfassen
und Lesefähigkeit ausreichend ist.

I was raised bilingually, and lived and trained in Büdingen, Ober-Hessen, as a forestry apprentice. At one time I was completely fluent, even had the Hessian dialect down to perfection. Unfortunately my spoken German has become so rusty as to be useless.

So that's three 'Jein's :)

Agh! Some peoples' German hear is making me want to scream! :p
Reminds of how bad some of my professors' English is:
"Ze fia extinkwishers are in ze floor" which they weren't... she meant to say hallway, which is "Flur" in German.

Agh! Some peoples' German hear is making me want to scream! :p
Reminds of how bad some of my professors' English is:
"Ze fia extinkwishers are in ze floor" which they weren't... she meant to say hallway, which is "Flur" in German.
Reminds me of how some people in English class used to ask 'can I become a sheet?' when in need of paper. :D

Ich hab mein Deutsch gelern von Zeigentrickfilms

We used to get only crappy Dutch TV channels, so we watched cartoons on the German channels. Later movies. But that's where I learned most German. But I'm soooo rusty right now for speaking and writing. Not enough practise

I've been learning it for a year

Ich hab mein Deutsch gelern von Zeigentrickfilms

We used to get only crappy Dutch TV channels, so we watched cartoons on the German channels. Later movies. But that's where I learned most German. But I'm soooo rusty right now for speaking and writing. Not enough practise
Kind of makes me wonder just how bad Dutch TV is/was...we used to watch French (and some Italian) channels because we considered German TV to be bad ;)

Reminds me of how some people in English class used to ask 'can I become a sheet?' when in need of paper. :D
This was in a chemistry lab. Later we were wondering about how someone that couldn't speak German and didn't notice the fire extinguishers in the hallway would have reacted if he or she had caught fire during class...

Kind of makes me wonder just how bad Dutch TV is/was...we used to watch French (and some Italian) channels because we considered German TV to be bad ;)
We just got the Dutch public channels. As a kid, those are just plain boring.

And yeah German TV can be quite bad. :D

This was in a chemistry lab. Later we were wondering about how someone that couldn't speak German and didn't notice the fire extinguishers in the hallway would have reacted if he or she had caught fire during class...
:eek: spontaneous combustion in chemistry class?
I get the feeling English wasn't the only thing your teacher wasn't good at ;)

Agh! Some peoples' German hear is making me want to scream! :p
yeah that would be mine :D
haven't spoken a word of it in about 5 years now and when we visited family in Germany i couldn't even converse with my 3 year old cousin :p

Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. Und meine Vorfahren sind von Bayern.

Hope that came out right (I will be at least proficient by the end of the summer. ;))

Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. Und meine Vorfahren sind von Bayern.

Hope that came out right (I will be at least proficient by the end of the summer. ;)
But Bavaria isn't really Germany... :p

But Bavaria isn't really Germany... :p

Exactly! Bavaria is it's own country! It even has it's own "National Anthem"! :)

Aufgepaßt alle Mann!
Jetzt komm' ich...
:D

EDIT: That was my 1000th post...

Can I speak German? Nein, Not really. Mein Deutsch ist scheisse. Ich weiß nur ein bisschen. I'd like to be fluent someday.