Comments on: Ich Spreche Nicht Deutsch

By: James

James — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:06:20 +0000

It’s supposed to read Die Katze ist unter “dem” Flugzueg. Just a minor correction.

By: dankwijoti

dankwijoti — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:54:31 +0000

I took German at the college level, four semesters, and found the most rewarding part to be the irrevocable pick-me-up that was provided by looking up the word “fat” in the English-> German glossary in the back of my text book.
Fat – Dick
Seeing those words next to each other in print can instantly reverse any sort of foul mood you may be in.
Tschüs

By: CM

CM — Thu, 06 May 2004 07:24:51 +0000

I just have to tell you it was hard to keep a straight face thinking of the words “Auffart” and “Ausfahrt” when entering and exiting into a public parking ramp while in Germany. How’s that for having the sound of authority and urgency. Of course when you think about it (ausfarht), it could be very urgent.

By: sauceruney

sauceruney — Wed, 05 May 2004 04:59:58 +0000

The only thing I liked about German class was the banquet at the end of the year. My teacher completely turned off almost a whole class of students from progressing past 8th grade German. Her 12 year old neice learned english in 6 months…

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:34:31 +0000

When I was in Germany the only German I knew was travel German. Entrance, Exit, Gate #, numbers up to ten. Thankfully I was travelling with a German friend so anytime we needed something that required lots of talking he was the man

By: The Minister of Squeaky Music

The Minister of Squeaky Music — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:25:55 +0000

I hear that.

The Minister has many projects collecting dust – I wanted to learn russian for a while, I got sick of it, the alphabet is too freaking annoying.

Lately I’ve been leaning towards mandarin – but that suffers from the same problem. Maybe french, that’d be ironic.