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Dutch and German.

Discussion in 'Lethal Chat' started by Alias, Aug 5, 2010.

  1. Alias

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    So yeah, me and the rest of England fail at other languages (as you can tell).

    I was playing on L4D2 last night when Khadgar went, "so Alias when are you going to learn Dutch". So being bored before work I thought I would try and learn some key words in it.

    All was going well, when I realised. Huh wtf, this is the same as German.

    So can someone please give me a explanation about how these 2 languages are different? IM CONFUSED D:

    Dank u.
     
  2. LuckyLuke

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    They are different lol. :p

    "Dank u" is for example "Danke". Apart from that I don't know a word german except for sheisse (that means poep in dutch). :|
     
  3. Morrolan

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    It's 'scheisse', Luke :p
    @Alias: For someone who doesn't speak German or Dutch they may sound similar. However, I can tell you that there IS a difference.
    If there's something written in Dutch, then I'll most likely be able to understand the basic meaning. However, as soon as someone's talking Dutch, I have no idea what he's trying to say. ^^
     
  4. Jer9

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    well, we're based of the same language which were spoken before The Netherlands or Germany existed. the civilisation which lived on our countries were called Germania I think.

    also germany got those Nahmfalle or something. that with: we just have 'een' (= a, an) they have 4 lists with different stuff with eines, einem etc.
    (i think..it's been a year since I had the horrors of learning german on my school, I absolutely sucked in it :lol:)

    oh and don't think we can immediately speak/understand german, it's really different :p some words sound like the same but have different meanings. :p
     
  5. Morrolan

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    You made a mistake there, fixed it four you. :D

    But you're right, a big difference between German and English, (and obviously Dutch), is, that german nouns have a gender, which affects the 'words before the nouns'. I can imagine myself that this makes it difficult to learn. ^^
     
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    i can read most german though, but i cannot understand it when they talk.
     
  8. LuckyLuke

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    Same. I can understand some sentences bot not much of them. I've had about 4 years german lessons on school but the teacher was so bad at teaching that I forgot everything (or didn't learn anything). Did score a 7 at my exam, don't ask how..
    Maybe that was because 90% of the exam was in text, that's a lot easier yeah :p
     
  9. Anonymous

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    Lucky you are really bad, Limburgers are almost Germans when they speak.. :)

    So you must be able to understand it, and read it as well...
    German and that bad, allthough I didn't quit like it in highschool, but learned it after I got my first car and joined a car club.
    With it being a german car, a VW Scirocco, the people who came to meetings where mostly germans.... and when you spent a weekend with drunken germans, you learn a lot..... ;)
     
  10. $ouljah*

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    ill spend a weekend with drunken dutchies (dome and malle) and belgians (suga), so ill learn a lot too :lol:

    and btw german and dutch are very close related to eachother --> both got their roots in german (tribe and language). dutch and german where almost the same untill the second sound change 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm's_law 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift. after that both languages went different ways, but they r still related to eachother. thats why its so easy for germans to learn dutch and vice versa.
     
  11. LuckyLuke

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    Nah. Limburgs is still much different to german. But it's true that it's easier for Limburgers. But the problem with me is: I hate the german language. xD
    If I don't have to hear it, I just don't. I hate it and I would never speak it. :p
    That's probably also one of the reasons I forgot everything I learned in those lessons on school. :lol:

    But I do understand the basics when someone's talking that shitlanguage, but nothing more. ;)

    The only time I come in germany is when I go tank some fuel (much cheaper there). But that's a limburger who's working there at the cash, so I can just speak dutch/limburgs to him :D
     
  12. Anonymous

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    Swiss German is the one and only German. 'Nough said.
     
  13. Morrolan

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    +1 :D
     
  14. khadgar

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    Swiss... that is that country which couldn't make up their own language so now they are using THREE languages borrowed from neighborhood countries? :lol:
     
  15. ReX.be

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    Here are all the Germanic languages

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    I thought you supposed to learn that in school :p
     
  16. Anonymous

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    Wait a minute, faroese? there's an island with people on it the size of a tennisball?
     
  17. ReX.be

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    It are the faroe islands (its from denmark) there only comming in the news with there horrible national sport : whale killing. Its a part of there culture....to make the sea turn red I guess.

    Explicit...
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