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[–] wdx 11 points 1 day ago
[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Its always the 2 seconds of "WTF is OP saying?". Oh. Non english. Nvm

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD.

[–] Kage@discuss.tchncs.de 107 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Guten Morgen aus Deutschland, nimm ein Brötchen

[–] friendlymessage 80 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 130 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Die Amis schlafen...

1 Meter = 10 Decimeter = 100 Zentimeter

1 Kilometer = 1.000 Meter

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

1 Liter Wasser = 1 Kilogramm
1000 Liter = 1 Kubikmeter

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nene Kelvin ist besser (sofern es nicht um Wasser geht).

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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

[–] jenesaisquoi 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Swiss system is best system: apostrophes for thousands, either dot or comma for decimals. Completely unambiguous for anyone even if you're seeing it for the first time: 12'345.67

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I hate how it looks but I can't deny the superiority

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 57 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days 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 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 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 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you!

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

[–] vrojak 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Na dann bring denen doch wenigstens bei, dass Nomen wie Zeit groß geschrieben werden.

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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

Be aware that part of ich_iel humour in no small part consits of comically literal translations of English expressions. That has nothing to do with proper German and as a learner you probably won't be able to spot the difference.

Bad idea to try to learn German there.

[–] JimBeann@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh boy, you're learning Zangendeutsch

[–] Hubi 8 points 1 day ago

The German on ich_iel can be "creative"

[–] Peter_Arbeitslos 16 points 2 days ago

Another one making the mistake of learning German by ich_iel-memes.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah it is pretty good practice for puzzling out meaning

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

yup that is also my signal for "you have exhausted all the English lemmy content from now on it is all Deutschland"

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 68 points 3 days ago (3 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.

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] Kennystillalive 58 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.)

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