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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 104 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Die Amis schlafen...

1 Meter = 10 Decimeter = 100 Zentimeter

1 Kilometer = 1.000 Meter

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

1 Liter Wasser = 1 Kilogramm
1000 Liter = 1 Kubikmeter

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

I forgot that your heathens use "." Instead of "," in numbers. I was very confused

[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's called a decimal point. No wonder you don't understand.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

In my learning a decimal point comes after the integer. So it would mean 1km == 1 m

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[–] Kage@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Guten Morgen aus Deutschland, nimm ein Brötchen

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[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 59 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] coffeeismydrug@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

ich nehme gern eine mit mohn danke sehr

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Ich lieben die titten meister

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[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 9 points 10 hours ago
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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 70 points 15 hours ago
[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 57 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've, legit, learned a decent amount of German just by having Google translate up on my second monitor browsing lemmy late at night.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I was gonna make a Midnight Oil joke, then remembered they're all 'Strayan.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
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[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 51 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago

Natürlich, oder.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 41 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

(You do not in fact, go to bed.)

In a couple years you'll be able to read German fluently... Without knowing how to speak it.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ironically, it's one of the few languages that English speakers have an easier time advancing their lingual fluency through literacy, in my experience. (former ESL teacher, international hospitality liaison, etc.)

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 12 points 10 hours ago

I started learning German from my dad's Jr. Highschool book from the 1960s but had no one around who spoke German. My pronunciation was... interesting (even trying to mimic what the guide was telling me in the front of the book). When I finally tried to speak to people, it was also funny to learn that several things were quite out-of-date (Feder vs Kuli I think was one).

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 38 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Nein. Das ist zeit für Deutsch lernen. Dann du kannst Scheißposts in zwei Sprachen machen

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm, let me try.

No. This is not for German learning. Then you can't shit post in the Spray Machine.

How close did I get?

[–] amoistgrandpa@lemm.ee 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Pretty close, but you skipped some nouns and you have too many "not"s in your sentence. The correct translation is "no, that is the time for learning German. Then you can shitpost in two languages". Zeit is the word for time, and Sprachen means languages.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you!

Zeit threw me off and had no idea what Sprachen machen meant.

[–] vrojak@feddit.org 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Machen -> make

The translation by amoistgrandpa is "Then you can shitpost in two languages", which is good English, a more literal translation would be "then you can make shitposts in two languages"

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[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I only speak a very tiny bit of German so apologies if I get this wrong, but this reads like English forced into German.

No. That is time for German learning. Then you can shitpost in two languages make.

Oh wow I just realized that there's the weird make in the end so maybe it was proper German after all?

[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Lol, you did good, but got tripped up by reading "Scheißposts" as a verb. It's capitalized, so it's a noun. The "make" at the end gets folded into the "kannst" - or "can" - so it's "Then you can make shitposts in two languages."

[–] amoistgrandpa@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I've only got my A2 in German so I might also make mistakes with this, but yeah, that seems like proper German to me.

In German, the verb in a sentence fragment always goes in position 2. However, if a fragment contains two verbs (usually when you use the past perfect or when you use a modal verb, in my limited experience) then the second verb goes at the very end. So, technically, OP should have swapped "kannst" and "du", because kannst is a modal verb and thus needs to go in position 2, but the rest is good.

I also feel like "Zeit für Deutsch lernen" might sound better if it was combined into a massive noun like Deutschlernzeit, but I might be stretching too far with that. The original version is perfectly understandable.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 hours ago

Same but I'm from Australia. Ich_iel is pretty much German Duolingo to me at this point.

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's really bedtime when it turns Indian.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I was gonna say Gujarati, but then learned it's a subset of Western Hindi. TIL! 😅

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The Germans make some awesome memes though.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The Germans make some efficient memes though.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 13 hours ago

Honestly, infant English got none of that gene.

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[–] teletext@reddthat.com 7 points 14 hours ago

Same, same.

German ~~engineering~~ memeing.

[–] kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 9 points 15 hours ago

But then I'll never sleep

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 56 minutes ago

I'm in europe, but I've actually been learning german these past few months so i see German posts as free practice

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