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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:39 pm
I had to learn a bit of German for my botany course. I forget most of it, but I do remember that it all had to do with wines (it was for an economic plants course) The professor gave us one bit of insight on the german language:
They make new words by adding already existing words together.
*gets book*
Here's some of the words and what it says they mean:
auslese - 'selected'
beerenauslese - 'berry-selected'
trockenbeerenauslese - 'dried-berry-selected'
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:44 pm
I feel like im lacking quite a bit of German skills. Of course, the only thing i have teaching me is a English to German dictionary. Sadly my school doesnt offer any languages that i find interesting.
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:21 pm
saxophonicus I feel like im lacking quite a bit of German skills. Of course, the only thing i have teaching me is a English to German dictionary. Sadly my school doesnt offer any languages that i find interesting. I have the same problem. :nod: Except I can learn German at my university, though I want to learn Swedish first. But I can't find anything but books and books on tape, which are useless to me.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:47 pm
saxophonicus I feel like im lacking quite a bit of German skills. Of course, the only thing i have teaching me is a English to German dictionary. Sadly my school doesnt offer any languages that i find interesting. It's the same for me; I had to order in a correspondance course through the school. I finished the first year, but I need the second one to get into University, and I have no clue how I'll get it done on time... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:51 am
*has just gotten the dative case* moooaaannn....why do you need 16 way to say the!!!!!!!! and all those dative prepositions!!!!!!
rolleyes
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:35 am
stargirl775 *has just gotten the dative case* moooaaannn....why do you need 16 way to say the!!!!!!!! and all those dative prepositions!!!!!! rolleyes That's the part that kept me from getting high marks in German; I don't understand that stuff for the life of me, no matter how hard I try. *sigh* I need Rammstein... sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:43 am
Are there any ways to make remembering that sort of thing easier? I always get confused as to what nominative versus dative versus genetive is... sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:46 pm
my german teacher taught us a way for the thes
rese (nominative-ends with r, e, s, e, in that order) (der, die, das, die)
nese (den, die, das, die)
mrnm (dem, der, dem, den)
I don't know if that helps....I can't really help with figuring out which case to use sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:11 pm
stargirl775 my german teacher taught us a way for the thesrese (nominative-ends with r, e, s, e, in that order) (der, die, das, die) nese (de n, di e, da s, di e) mrnm (de m, de r, de m, de n) I don't know if that helps....I can't really help with figuring out which case to use sweatdrop Yes, that does help a bit! Thank you! 3nodding It's just that the course is correspondance for me; they don't even seem to touch on this stuff. Just take away marks for getting it wrong. stare
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:57 pm
Anyone know of any good German literature?
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:21 pm
German is language on my list next to learn of. ^^ Any helpful tips about grammar structure and more?
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:55 pm
Ashvemn German is language on my list next to learn of. ^^ Any helpful tips about grammar structure and more? Hmm... it's kind of like English ^^; although the grammar is a bit different... that's all I can say about German xd I know that prolly wasn't very helpful, but there isn't really much more than an anglophone can say about German sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:01 pm
saxophonicus Anyone know of any good German literature? Have you read Faust? I'd anything by Goethe if you're into the classics; there's so many others, too. There's also The Thief Lord, which is big in North America, too. It may be a little young, but I loved it. I don't know much other than that, though... sorry! sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:54 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:07 pm
Cool! I'm going to have to check that out, too...
Oh, that reminds me! There's All Quite on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque; it's a WWI novel. Geez, I can't think of much that hasn't been translated...
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