Swede here dealing with the same realization. Although continental Scandinavian is a Germanic language and share the same ancestry as German, eg proto-Germanic, and thereby shares a lot of similarities, it’s not mutually intelligible. I can how ever often times pick out some words and with some bending and shuffling around get a gist of what’s going on. But only if it’s presented in a meme format.
Jag älskar köttbullar
Wer macht das nicht! Sie bestehen schließlich aus den beiden magischen Zutaten Fleisch und Ball.
Haha I wake up pretty early in the US and see a lot of the German content. I have learned a lot about tables recently.
Still new here. But I haven’t come across any German instances yet….
Hi
feddit.org is the main German instance, although not all communities on here are in German.
Are you browsing all?
I never see any German posts, what am I doing wrong?
Not browsing All nearly enough
Go to your profile settings. There should be a list of languages you can select. Depending on the interface you use, Ctrl+Click may do the trick of selecting multiple languages. Then save.
Also learn everything about Linux so I can get all these Linux memes that keep popping up. And learn to program so I can get all the programmer memes.
I need to not only learn the language but learn the culture so I can understand what I can only assume are fire memes
No, we are talk8ng about “Muricans” … most of them are thinking that these people need to learn English.
Have yet to see that opinion voiced except by you!
Yes, so many right wing Americans on Lemmy
How many languages can a human brain hold?
I have 3 spoken and 2 written languages and its a bit too much, I’m not trying to have 200 languages, that stupid green owl can go away.
In many cultures, it’s common to grow up with 3-5 languages. Learning them as an adult is much harder tho
Sometimes you can mix so many 语言, that 有啲人 都冇 understand you 係度 说啥？
Deutsch reicht.
Ja genau.
I had a two year streak on Duolingo and I still get maybe 40% with context clues help.
I took German in high school, and while I understand maybe 60% of the words, 90% of the (what I assume to be critical) context is lost on me
with how the german community is radically translating everything english directly into german, i too tend to need some time figuring out what the heck they mean. lemmy is translated as „let me“ but in one word, same for meme being translated as „me me“. so, oftentimes, i need to translate half the words of a sentence directly into english without taking context into consideration, then try to put them together and reread, if that makes any sense…
Welcome to Zangendeutsch, where we (mostly) take words and translate them literally. Works the other way as well btw, I often see stuff like that in those “funny german words” memes. Birth control pill = Antibabypille = Antibabypill
Tangled cables = Kabelsalat = Cablesalad
(excess weight gained due to sadness) = Kummerspeck = Griefbacon
A lot is inside jokes and playfully bad translations from English. Don’t know if that makes it easier or more difficult
It’s probably half an indictment of Duolingo effectiveness and half an indictment of my retention skills.
I’ve had to block so many German Lemmy’s. It’s frustrating because I can tell it’s a good article and I believe European news more than US news now.
At first it annoyed me slightly but I’ve noticed that I can understand most of them without having to use a translator, so now it’s just free language practice. And deciphering memes is decidedly more fun than taking a course.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Ich hoffe du triffst nie auf Zangendeutsch, da weiß selbst ich nicht mehr, was dort eigentlich gesagt wird.
Zangendeutsch ist v.a. auf ich_iel sehr weit verbreitet, dem Hauptinkubator deutschsprachiger Memes auf Lemmy.
*Maimais auf Lassmich
This is how I do it
So now you know what Zangendeutsch is
Tangendeutsch heff ik ja noch nie höört aver dat geiht ja noch. Dat klingt hollt meist bloot temlich swacksinnig. Wat seggt denn eerst bi zB Plattdeutsch.
Edit: Zangendeutsch habe ich ja noch nie gehört, aber das geht ja noch. Das klingt halt meist bloß ziemlich schwachsinnig. Was sagst dann erst bei zB Plattdeutsch.
I’ve never heard Zangendeutsch before, but that’s still possible. It just usually sounds pretty stupid. What about Low German(Plattdeutsch), for example?
Das war kein NF Platt. Ostfriesland vielleicht?
Ich bin in Norddeutschland aufgewachsen Platt ist kein Problem, auch wenn ich es nicht spreche.
Ging ja um die die Deutsch lernen. Das du es als Norddeutscher verstehst verwundert mich nicht. Spreche es selbst aber auch nicht mehr, dass war mal als Kind als ich es noch aktiv gelernt hatte. Aber hatte nie jemanden zum quatschen somit verlernt. Platt war jetzt aber eh nur als Beispiel gedacht.
Ich hab von einigen Initiativen gehört, das in der Schule zu unterrichten aber auch dann vergeht das wahrscheinlich schnell wieder. Finde ich sehr schade, dass das verloren geht.
Also ich hätte es gerne weiter gesprochen bloß keinerlei Freunde die daran Interesse hatten und auch nicht in der Familie. Wäre das anders gewesen wäre ich dem wohl treu geblieben. Naja wie es so halt ist.
Geen probleem, het is bijna Nederlands van iemand die het schrijven niet beheerst. En Duitse leenwoorden gebruikt om taalgebrek te compenseren.
Platt is schon ne janz feene Sache
Nimm beim Reden den Fisch aus dem Mund!
Plattdütsch oder Platt, du Kiend vonna Fachvrouw für Selbstvermarktung.
Ich lerne Hochdeutsch und dieser Text hat meinen Kopf kaputt gemacht.
Ich habe den Text mal etwas bearbeitet. :)
Yup, same, I’m enjoying learning German this way now
Und ich lerne Englisch vor allem durch eure Michmichs ^^
Back when this meme format was making the rounds on 4chan, I always saw it as a guy with a really long Fu Manchu moustache and to this day I still can’t unsee it.
That’s how I’ve always seen it too. Your comment just now made me realize that those are his forearms.
You have ruined the Internet and memes for me forever now. I hope you’re happy.
Suffer well, brother.
Wasn’t there even a rage comic about that?
You guys are aware you can filter by language in the settings of your Lemmy account, right?
That’s like the most useless setting ever because nobody enforces the language while commenting
I wasn’t! Thanks for the clue!
I still can’t figure out what “ich eil” means or even what language it is
And it’s somehow still an amazing experience despite not knowing a single word
Ich iel is a german acronym for “meirl”
Ah, im echten Leben, iel! Finally the quarter fell.
Ich im echten Leben.
They take English and translate it word for word in a very literal fashion. It’s very difficult to understand for regular Germans because you kinda need to know the original English sayings to make sense of it.
I’ve been doing German on Duolingo for over a year and I can get about 20% of the content they post, so I’m pretty happy to have an actual use for the work I put in.
Good choice. Nobody who speaks German could be an evil man.
As a side benefit, you will also be able to converse with Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and Robert Terwilliger.
Oh, I didn’t know Kim Jong- un can speak German
I bet he speaks it like the same he doesn’t have to shit.
He went to school in Switzerland. Maybe that explains the Laibach concert.
