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[-] [email protected] 131 points 4 months ago

Die Amis schlafen...

1 Meter = 10 Decimeter = 100 Zentimeter

1 Kilometer = 1.000 Meter

[-] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

1 Liter Wasser = 1 Kilogramm
1000 Liter = 1 Kubikmeter

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I forgot that your heathens use "." Instead of "," in numbers. I was very confused

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Swiss system is best system: apostrophes for thousands, either dot or comma for decimals. Completely unambiguous for anyone even if you're seeing it for the first time: 12'345.67

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It's called a decimal point. No wonder you don't understand.

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[-] [email protected] 111 points 4 months ago

Guten Morgen aus Deutschland, nimm ein Brötchen

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

ich nehme gern eine mit mohn danke sehr

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Die Mohntagsknuspersonne oder den Mehrkorngoldmohnd?

(sorry this joke is probably impossible to understand for non-Germans)

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago

I've, legit, learned a decent amount of German just by having Google translate up on my second monitor browsing lemmy late at night.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I was gonna make a Midnight Oil joke, then remembered they're all 'Strayan.

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago

Nein. Das ist zeit für Deutsch lernen. Dann du kannst Scheißposts in zwei Sprachen machen

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Hmm, let me try.

No. This is not for German learning. Then you can't shit post in the Spray Machine.

How close did I get?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Pretty close, but you skipped some nouns and you have too many "not"s in your sentence. The correct translation is "no, that is the time for learning German. Then you can shitpost in two languages". Zeit is the word for time, and Sprachen means languages.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Thank you!

Zeit threw me off and had no idea what Sprachen machen meant.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Machen -> make

The translation by amoistgrandpa is "Then you can shitpost in two languages", which is good English, a more literal translation would be "then you can make shitposts in two languages"

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago

Same but I'm from Australia. Ich_iel is pretty much German Duolingo to me at this point.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Another one making the mistake of learning German by ich_iel-memes.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Be aware that part of ich_iel humour in no small part consits of comically literal translations of English expressions. That has nothing to do with proper German and as a learner you probably won't be able to spot the difference.

Bad idea to try to learn German there.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

The German on ich_iel can be "creative"

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago

(You do not in fact, go to bed.)

In a couple years you'll be able to read German fluently... Without knowing how to speak it.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ironically, it's one of the few languages that English speakers have an easier time advancing their lingual fluency through literacy, in my experience. (former ESL teacher, international hospitality liaison, etc.)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I started learning German from my dad's Jr. Highschool book from the 1960s but had no one around who spoke German. My pronunciation was... interesting (even trying to mimic what the guide was telling me in the front of the book). When I finally tried to speak to people, it was also funny to learn that several things were quite out-of-date (Feder vs Kuli I think was one).

[-] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der BRD.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

yup that is also my signal for "you have exhausted all the English lemmy content from now on it is all Deutschland"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

It's really bedtime when it turns Indian.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I'm in europe, but I've actually been learning german these past few months so i see German posts as free practice

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