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• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Alles gut. Deine Vergesslichkeit hindert mich nicht daran, hier zu pfostieren.

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  • ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Doch

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• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a German I can assure you that false friends are something you scare away all pupils (regardless of age). I have very intense memory of our English teacher correcting us again and again.

  Regarding the composita in German: we are moving more towards the English approach by splitting these word monstrousities with hyphens. E.g. Donaudampfschifffahrtsamt may be spelled Donau-Dampfschifffahrts-Amt. Its way easier to read and write. While the hyphenated spelling is not something that is used often officially, it got more popular in the last decades.

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  • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    oh Christ, please. it really is just the lack of spaces that make them a nightmare.

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• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My biggest issue with Duolingo trying to learn German honestly. Sure I can read a compound word when presented with it, but fucking Duo is like “Cool… now spell it… bitch”

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  • colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    German is phonetic though - once you know how pronunciation maps to the alphabet (and certain compounds), it becomes easier to spell any new word. It’s actually why there’s no Spelling Bee in German.

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    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I learnt to write after hearing in Grundschule. It doesn’t work that well.

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  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I gave up on duolingo very quickly because it had a ton of clearly wrong stuff too. Drops and Rosetta Stone have much better content for learning German.

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I once talk to a guy that was learning portuguese all by himself using Langenscheidt’s portuguese course.

      They are pretty neat.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s your issue? Not adjective declination?

    I’m nearly at the end of Duolingo’s German content and spelling has mostly been quite easy (as a native English speaker). You want a spelling challenge, try French.

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So we have this verb and the ending in third person plural is -ent but we just dont pronounce that so it pronounces the same way as third person singular…

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    • obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fucking French. ‘we’re never, ever going to say this ‘h’ character, but you still need it to spell words correctly because fuck you, that’s why.’

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      • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        English isn’t exactly innocent there. See knight, plumber, mnemonic, pterodactyl.

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh I thought those were false cognates

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s something different. False cognates are words that look related even tho they are not and often have a similar meaning that makes it look even harder to be related. False friends often are related but have a very different meaning. Like the German word “eventuell” meaning “maybe” which is very bad if you use it wrong. Unlike the false cognate “emoji” meaning “picture sign” and – etymologically speaking – having nothing to do with emoticon despite its similar meaning. Which is more a linguistic fun fact than any problem for learners.

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    • elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Another example of a false friend:

      German: Bekommen (to get), English: Become (werden)

      Hence a joke I often heard while learning English:

      • Guest: “I become a steak.”

      • Waiter: “Well, I do hope you won’t, but I could ask the chef, if you insist…”

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Wie” in Dutch means “who” whilst in German it means “how”.

        Having learned Dutch first, I can tell you that when I was first learning German the expression “Wie geht’s” tended to give me a serious mental hiccup when I was trying to talk to German people.

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• PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tja

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