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Ebin

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For my new German class I'm going to have to do a 20 min presentation on something ado with Germen culture. So I'm thinking about writing on how the language is reflected in the culture and vice versa. I'm already under the assumption that people who speak German like specificity. So anyways, my point for writing this. If anyone has any links, information, or anything else in regards to this could you please post it here? I have until September 15 to write a 100 word essay covering what my presentation will be over.


*And the topic name is something about a "Captain of a steamboat in the danube river" that my German professor used to teach us about compound words today.
 
No we haven't got to the Nazi part yet. That comes later in our learning of Germany's culture, history, and of course language. like, after the presentation.
 
Lord Burgess1 said:
Ok, beer, sausage, overpriced cars, crap porn.

And they capitalize every noun like what Psychology says men do in other languages on accident anyways? (I'm guilty of it too). Obviously the Country is very masculine.
 
Lord Burgess1 said:
Ok, beer, sausage, overpriced cars, crap porn.
...Cleavage, a language that sounds even meaner than Russian, scientific advances, mechanical efficiency. Oh, and Lederhosen.
 
Pierce Elliot said:
Lord Burgess1 said:
Ok, beer, sausage, overpriced cars, crap porn.

And they capitalize every noun like what Psychology says men do in other languages on accident anyways? (I'm guilty of it too). Obviously the Country is very masculine.

Yes and they also have a neutral.
 
Pierce Elliot said:
*And the topic name is something about a "Captain of a steamboat in the danube river" that my German professor used to teach us about compound words today.
Give him this one and ask for extra credit: Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz. :grin:
 
:lol: I put that into google and the poor thing isn't working correctly. Well done, I'll have to remember that one.
 
Tiberius Decimus Maximus said:
Sweet ever-loving Jesus.  :lol:

Noting the Specificity of the language, I assume there is a long compound word for that as well. Of course, I'm starting to like these compound words. I noticed today that there are "Special" words to describe certain things in English, where as in German, it is essentially the description as a long compound word. Makes life easier once you know how it works. Which I do not yet.
 
Oh I was trying to speak Spanish today when put on the spot to say "Es geht mir so la la" I was trying to say "Mas o Menos". Why? Because I didn't know what the German words mean and barely knew what "Wie geht es Ihnen" meant. So I was trying to form a response in a different language and spanish was all that came through my head.  :lol:
 
I'm taking German 1 this year; I've had basically one class so far. Theoretically, I know how to say a few introductory phrases, but honestly I don't remember how to pronounce half of it.

Is 'ich' pronounced like 'ish'? And how are heißt and haße pronounced?

Also, apparently my teacher hasn't spoken German in twenty five years :roll:
 
Same here, only it's my second class.

And ß is pronounced as ss. in fact it is ss. And 'ich' is pronounced with maybe some flem if you'd like but it's how you would pronounce it in english with more emphasis on the hard ch than the i.

And... Sounds like my Spanish teacher. My German Professor is from Germany.
 
I need help with a 20 minute presentation. the 100 word essay is basically an overview of the presentation that the professor has to approve.
 
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