The german language
I love the german language!
Yes! It´s true. German sounds so beautiful and well spoken it´s like music to my ears.
I grew up in Germany, in 1974 I arrived with my mom and brother to Berlin. Our father was there already and waited for us. It was wonderful to be in a new country but at the same time kind of scary.
We did not know where we were going or were we would sleep but that was no problem in the end.
The first word I learned in german was "Aufwiedersehen". It was the East German ambassador in my country that taught me that word. I could not have known than that I would study "Germanistik" later on as an adult.
Germanistik is the sience of the german language and literature.
When I began my studies in Berlin in 1988 I had to "unlearn" the dialect I had when I began my studies. My phonetics teacher said that since I would be studing Germanistik I had to learn to speak what it´s called "Hochdeutsch". Hochdeutsch is like Oxford English, you know finer and well pronounced german.
I had extra lectures with my phonetics teacher and I managed to "unlearn" my dialect. Now you don´t really know where I come from.... hahahaha...
Many people do not like the sound of german because it sounds so hard and like the germans are always angry a little bit like arabic.
But that is not the case! If you understand german and listen to the varitations of dialects in Germany you would be astonished. What the germans don´t like a foreign words. The will always have a "german word" for it.
A lot of people think about Hitler when someone speaks german but nothing could be more further away from the truth. German has a very wide vocabulary and a different way to describe the same thing. I have lost a little bit of that today since I don´t read books in german so often but I love reading Schiller or Heinrich Böll.
The building of sentences in german as many of you know who have tried to learn german difficult, it has sometimes an impact on me when I talk swedish, then swedish sound funny until I hear that I´m talking swedish with the german grammar!!!
I think that I do that in english too! It´s not very easy to maintain one language pure but I manage and I can hear when something is not that good grammar.
When I met Him in Germany we spoke german with each other. We talked and the he asked me something about the language and I could not say what was right or wrong. Then I told him, What the heck, you and I are foreigners and we can say however we want it. We had a good laugh then.
German is the language of philosophers, sienctist, authors, german for me is easy so I must have been a german in the past life.
I love the german language and well spoken it sounds like heaven to my ears.
Aufwiedersehen!
Yes! It´s true. German sounds so beautiful and well spoken it´s like music to my ears.
I grew up in Germany, in 1974 I arrived with my mom and brother to Berlin. Our father was there already and waited for us. It was wonderful to be in a new country but at the same time kind of scary.
We did not know where we were going or were we would sleep but that was no problem in the end.
The first word I learned in german was "Aufwiedersehen". It was the East German ambassador in my country that taught me that word. I could not have known than that I would study "Germanistik" later on as an adult.
Germanistik is the sience of the german language and literature.
When I began my studies in Berlin in 1988 I had to "unlearn" the dialect I had when I began my studies. My phonetics teacher said that since I would be studing Germanistik I had to learn to speak what it´s called "Hochdeutsch". Hochdeutsch is like Oxford English, you know finer and well pronounced german.
I had extra lectures with my phonetics teacher and I managed to "unlearn" my dialect. Now you don´t really know where I come from.... hahahaha...
Many people do not like the sound of german because it sounds so hard and like the germans are always angry a little bit like arabic.
But that is not the case! If you understand german and listen to the varitations of dialects in Germany you would be astonished. What the germans don´t like a foreign words. The will always have a "german word" for it.
A lot of people think about Hitler when someone speaks german but nothing could be more further away from the truth. German has a very wide vocabulary and a different way to describe the same thing. I have lost a little bit of that today since I don´t read books in german so often but I love reading Schiller or Heinrich Böll.
The building of sentences in german as many of you know who have tried to learn german difficult, it has sometimes an impact on me when I talk swedish, then swedish sound funny until I hear that I´m talking swedish with the german grammar!!!
I think that I do that in english too! It´s not very easy to maintain one language pure but I manage and I can hear when something is not that good grammar.
When I met Him in Germany we spoke german with each other. We talked and the he asked me something about the language and I could not say what was right or wrong. Then I told him, What the heck, you and I are foreigners and we can say however we want it. We had a good laugh then.
German is the language of philosophers, sienctist, authors, german for me is easy so I must have been a german in the past life.
I love the german language and well spoken it sounds like heaven to my ears.
Aufwiedersehen!
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