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This is a bit off the usual C.R. topics, but since there have been so many comments here on learning a new language [in this case, Spanish], I think the hilarious comparisons in these film clips are appropriate and entertaining:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57594947-10391705/how-german-sounds-compared-to-other-languages/PEH
(P.S. my esposa is German, so these clips are doubly funny for me)Now we know what a German sounds like when he is angry.
The Germanic languages are certainly different but I’ve never heard the language spoken with such venom.[quote=”pharg”]This is a bit off the usual C.R. topics, but since there have been so many comments here on learning a new language [in this case, Spanish], I think the hilarious comparisons in these film clips are appropriate and entertaining:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57594947-10391705/how-german-sounds-compared-to-other-languages/PEH
(P.S. my esposa is German, so these clips are doubly funny for me)
[/quote]Well, I hope your wife does not speak like that guy…..he sounds like someone just stole his “Schnupfdawak”
elindermuller said:
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Well, I hope your wife does not speak like that guy…..he sounds like someone just stole his “Schnupfdawak”[/quote]For another take on German, read Mark Twain’s ‘The Awful German Language’: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html
But he really appreciated German [that is, as a source of humor: “Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
– A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtEnglish is the language for business
Spanish is the language for prayer
French is the language for love making
and German is the language for giving ordersThe thing is, in Germany not many speak real German. All areas have different dialects, I am speaking Bavarian and can barely understand those from high up north, for example.
However, none of the dialects sounds very romantic 🙁
The guy in the video sounds like Adolf…… but it was probably supposed to be a joke.
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