German Only ;)

[Leela]

Feb 17, 2009 19:31:59 GMT 1 OhSooRandomm said:

yeah i know it's that - i didn't have the little 'u' with the dots

ich liebe dich? < that itt?
My uncle who's Swiss kept saying 'wash your hands' in German ha

I know I just happen to have a german laptop

yes very good.
ah lol "wasch deine Hände!" ;D

² Snowy:I think you're German is not bad at all. don't think you are bad in it. we are able to understand you really well-just some details can be improved!

[Jessikat]

Okay, I have a question. This has been annoying me forever, because I have no idea:

How on Earth can you tell if a word is der, das, or die?
I know plurals's are die, but the others..?
Is there a rule or anything, or is it purely random?

[Leela]

well basically ( and I'm sure you know that) der is masculine and die is feminime and das is neutral right?
but what is what is basically a thing of learning it...sorry
so
der Mann
die Frau
das Haus

but "die Maus" so you can't really say it's a rule there because Maus can be male or female consdering the sex...

[Jessikat]

Yeah, I knew that.

But, weeeell, that's just annoying
I can do some, and the others are just a flop. Gah. They are something I don't like at all. Although I do have the endings of words like ein when with die, der or das down So I'm getting there... eek.

[Leela]

I know it's like in French with la and le...annoyed the hell out of me ;D
and German it's just that's my mother tongue so it's natural^^

hope you will manage

[Jessikat]

See, I can remember the French Because there's a rule xD "if it ends in an 'e' it's generally feminine" haha.

Yeah, thanks

[midori]

Es gibt noch eine generelle Regel. Wenn Substantive auf -tion enden, wird auch meistens "die" (oder "la" auf Franzoesisch) benutzt. Allerdings gibt es auch hier Ausnahmen, glaube ich.

[Jessikat]

Danke, Susi.

Umm, was ist die/der/das ( ack, i don't know which -.-' ) Arbeitspraktikum?
Ich weiss nicht...

und, was ist "backstage" auf(?) Deutsch? ..hinter Bühne oder..etwas andere ?

[midori]

das (Arbeits-)Praktikum

Die Vorsilbe "Arbeits-" musst du nicht unbedingt verwenden. Es ist aber auch nicht falsch. ;D

Ja, backstage kann als "hinter der Bühne" übersetzt werden, aber auch als "hinter der Kulisse". "Kulisse" wird meistens im Zusammenhang mit Theater oder Oper benutzt. Man kann im Deutschen aber auch "backstage" benutzen. Wir sagen das öfter und es wird verstanden.

auf Deutsch ist richtig.

etwas anderes

[Mistress Snowy aka Yuki-sama]

Feb 18, 2009 17:17:56 GMT 1 Leela said:

² Snowy:I think you're German is not bad at all. don't think you are bad in it. we are able to understand you really well-just some details can be improved!

Thanks Leela! ^_^

[Amiee♥TH]

Leute!
Hallo! Lol xD
wie gehts?

[Mistress Snowy aka Yuki-sama]

Gut danke, Amiee. Und dir?

[Jessikat]

Ahhh! Das Arbeitspraktikum ist "work experience".
(makes sense now... )

Aber, danke, Susi.

[midori]

Ja, das stimmt, Jess. Aber es ist geläufiger nur "Praktikum" zu sagen. "Arbeitspraktikum" ist sehr formal (z.B. kann man es bei Bewerbungen benutzen), aber weil es ja auch noch das "Studienpraktikum" gibt, muss man manchmal die Angabe machen um welches Praktikum es sich genau handelt. Wenn du dich aber mit jemandem unterhälst, benutzt man meistens nur "Praktikum" (also in Unterhaltungen ist "Praktikum" umgangssprachlicher anstatt das ganze "Arbeitspraktikum" zu sagen... zu lang *lol*).

(Yes, that's true, Jess. However, it's more common to just say "Praktikum". "Arbeitspraktikum" is very formal, e.g. you could use it [job] applications) because there's also the "Studienpraktikum" the specification what kind of "experience" it is exactly has to be mentioned sometimes. Mostly one would only use "Praktikum" if they're just talking to someone (meaning in conversations it's more commonly used that saying the whole "Arbeitspraktikum"... too long *lol*).)

[Jessikat]

Ahh. I'm just using the word the course gave me xD
hah.

Es ist so toll