Just call every noun a 'Dingsbums' (thingy) and you are all set - no more memorizing!
Could you please start posting a bit more substantively?
German for Programmers
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Re: German for Programmers
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with that. I banged my head on Duolingo and Memrise for ages before I got a tutor, and things fell in to place within weeks. Out of disgust for the solutions that existed, I went so far as to start working on my own Memrise style app which understands enough German grammar to generate English/German sentence pairs, so you can practice sentences with nouns/verbs/adjectives swapped around. So it shows you the f…
It's not that easy to get kicked out of Germany... Duolingo is but a tool among many. For one thing it tends to not force you to repeat enough, and for another the grammatical explanations are not that elaborate and easily ignored. But for basic drilling it's great and I would prefer it over most other tools. After a point, of course, other things like reading, listening and writing become more important and efficien…
The visa office made a typo in my email address when setting the appointment, and when I didn't show up, they sent me another email asking if I wanted to reschedule, and when I didn't reply to that, they closed my case.
As I was under a bridging visa that meant I was now there illegally.
When I contacted them to find out what the hold up was, they told me what happened and that I was now there illegally and needed to leave immediately, so I did.
After the mistake was found out the visa office were apologetic and offered to give me a visa again, and the criminal case against me for overstaying was dropped.
But it was such a disruption to my life I no longer have interest.
Re: German for Programmers
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kitchen terms are generally crazy. Do other languages also have hundreds of different terms for the last piece of a loaf of bread that is too thin for further slicing, but too thick to be considered a slice?
I just call that the Endstück, have never heard anything else. What other terms are common?
http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
It's up there with potato with the most local variations I think
Re: German for Programmers
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't have to be recent English loan words for German dialects to make things weird. http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/ (fyi: Butter is a loanword from Greek. I've heard "das Butter" as well.)
Kitchen terms are generally crazy. Do other languages also have hundreds of different terms for the last piece of a loaf of bread that is too thin for further slicing, but too thick to be considered a slice?
A small Swedish survey found at least 50 in common use:
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=411&art...
Re: German for Programmers
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it difficult to believe that there are phonetic collisions? There are even lexical collisions with _different_ phonetics like in Weg vs weg. The rules behind the shift in pronunciation can be looked up by searching for Auslautverhärtung. Isn't this A1-level German?
Because the final consonant is actually pronounced softly in related forms ("Rad/Räder" vs. "Rat/Räte"), German speakers tend to "hear" a difference, purely by association, that isn't there phonetically.
> Because the final consonant is actually pronounced softly in related forms ("Rad/Räder" vs. "Rat/Räte")
Because it isn't anymore the final consonant in the listed related forms. The rule is that simple. Note that it also affects some vowels.
> German speakers tend to "hear" a difference, purely by association, that isn't there phonetically.
This is so annoying. Some then try to prove you wrong and try to stress the soft consonants at the end of words until realizing that it sounds stupid and wrong. Such stubbornness.
Re: German for Programmers
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Where is the standard codified? You answer yourself: > Yes, for TV news announcers. > If anything, it's softened further and half swallowed to say something like "un'". Do you have a recording of that? Besides that, I wonder why you are so confrontative. I don't mean to.
> You answer yourself: No, I meant, where is the standard issued by the Kultusministerkonferenz, like there is for Standard German spelling? A convention is not a standard. > Do you have a recording of that? I'd say it kind of like the Swiss German speaker here: https://forvo.com/word/und/#gsw And coming back to the original Rat/Rad distinction, https://forvo.com/word/rat/#de and https://forvo.com/word/rad/#de do sou…
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Re: German for Programmers
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not that easy to get kicked out of Germany... Duolingo is but a tool among many. For one thing it tends to not force you to repeat enough, and for another the grammatical explanations are not that elaborate and easily ignored. But for basic drilling it's great and I would prefer it over most other tools. After a point, of course, other things like reading, listening and writing become more important and efficien…
The visa office made a typo in my email address when setting the appointment, and when I didn't show up, they sent me another email asking if I wanted to reschedule, and when I didn't reply to that, they closed my case. As I was under a bridging visa that meant I was now there illegally. When I contacted them to find out what the hold up was, they told me what happened and that I was now there illegally and needed to…
Interesting story. To avoid that to happen, I'd recommend to get a lawyer and to contest the authorities decision. You could have worked that out if you had looked into it. Sure, just letting it go is suboptimal, but in cases like this one things should still be able to be fixed if the mistake was on the authorities side.
Re: German for Programmers
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some comes from the attitude of creating the group "2nd generation immigrants". In the US, that's basically not a thing. There are reasons of course, just sayin'.
Yeah birthright citizenship for one. Complaining that people who don't belong to a group don't identify with it and act like it is just stupid. Doing so while not allowing them is cruel and stupid like punching someone for having a black eye and justifying it with their face looking weird.
There is the option to obtain the citizenship following the procedure for it.
There is the option to leave the country.
It doesn't sound entirely unreasonable or unfair to me.
Re: German for Programmers
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah birthright citizenship for one. Complaining that people who don't belong to a group don't identify with it and act like it is just stupid. Doing so while not allowing them is cruel and stupid like punching someone for having a black eye and justifying it with their face looking weird.
There is the option to obtain the citizenship following the procedure for it. There is the option to leave the country. It doesn't sound entirely unreasonable or unfair to me.
There is also the option of being a citizen by birth, yet be called 2nd generation immigrant, or heck, third.
Re: German for Programmers
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
The visa office made a typo in my email address when setting the appointment, and when I didn't show up, they sent me another email asking if I wanted to reschedule, and when I didn't reply to that, they closed my case. As I was under a bridging visa that meant I was now there illegally. When I contacted them to find out what the hold up was, they told me what happened and that I was now there illegally and needed to…
Interesting story. To avoid that to happen, I'd recommend to get a lawyer and to contest the authorities decision. You could have worked that out if you had looked into it. Sure, just letting it go is suboptimal, but in cases like this one things should still be able to be fixed if the mistake was on the authorities side.
For me it was a wake up call for how stupid I was being entrusting my welfare to a badly designed bureaucracy. All I'd be doing by fighting for the right to stay would be setting myself up for another messy situation that impacted my livelihood down the road.
Until I dealt with the German government and professionals that deal with the German government (taxes, visa etc), I had no idea how lucky I have it as an Australian.