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Why is Lemmy so US-centric? The largest instances are in Europe, aren't they? So why does it have to be US news trolling as if it were Reddit? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I see German content here all the time, even though I don't understand it or follow it.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've blocked so much german.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It’s either that or learn German and I’m way too busy scrolling for that.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I've accidentally learned a good amount of German from lemmy, actually. I didnt mean to, but from similar words, to looking up Rammstein lyrics, I had a base. From that base, and context, I'm actually learning a good bit of German without intention. Sometimes I read a German headline and it takes me a second to realize I'm reading German. I come across a word I don't know and I'm like "oh shit, I'm reading German". It's honestly been my favorite part of lemmy, I struggled with Spanish in a classroom setting and here I am learning German on accident. Granted, I couldn't pretend to know how to pronounce half of it, but I'm learning to read it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You have to be a bit careful, because some people deliberately talk in wrong German ("Zangendeutsch", where words are translated from English by "force").

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    That makes sense, like learning English from Internet memes?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Worse.
    The German you read from Zangendeutsch memes are almost as grammatically accurate as the German accent you got from Schwarzenegger.
    Imagine the most broken grammar and then you get that.

    On top the grammar is also non-applicable.

    Upside: You can still get some idea of what the meme is about. :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whats the latest word you've learned?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably eisbrecher, honestly. Because it started coming up on a Rammstein playlist. Which is cool because it gives me the base for ice and breaker, making it that much easier for me to pick up on other words in context, that I may have missed otherwise. Even moreso because I read so much climate news, which is important to me as the US dwindles in climate research, I hope to learn more French and German. I just wish I could learn my grandparents native languages of Norwegian and swedish. Those are much harder for me, even though I've actually put effort into those. It just doesn't come as easy to me.

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