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Onionguy @lemm.ee

5mo ago

Ich💀iel

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I'm sturggling with German in school and so I thought that consuming any media that is German must help. It actually doesn't, but occasionally I manage to somehow translate a meme and then I get the funnies.
- Believe me, it's a good tactic, I got quite profficient in english that way, you just need to find interesting media, you'll learn it in no time!
  
  Yes, it's literally the way I have learned English. But German media is so scarce it's not even funny.
- I'm actually working on a startup idea that is exactly this. But i get lazy sometimes, it has been in a "just a couple more weeks and it's ready" state for a few months now. Maybe ill share it with you once i manage to finish it
- Consuming media in the language you want to learn is a great tactic. If you want to look for something at an easy to understand level, try looking for "[language] immersion" or "[language] comprehensible input".
  I can't really judge how hard they are for a non-native speaker but this channel (Easy German) has a lot of nice videos, all in german.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUc_W3xE1w
- Try language reactor, let's you have both subtitles (original + translation) at the same time. It's really great! It's a plugin on chromium browsers. Works with YouTube and Netflix.

Me looking at all the German comments and feeling left out
- Come here brother, let me give you a god ol' english hug.
- Lernt deutsch. Es ist praktisch
  
  Nein, du kannst nicht macht mir.
  
  Ist es? Ich bin halb Deutsch aufgewachsen, auch mit Unterricht ist meine Grammatik Scheiße, und ihr spricht alle Englisch lolol.
  Wenn jemand sich überlegt ob sie deustch lernen sollten, über eine andere Sprache, dann sage ich immer: Ja, aber nur aus Spass oder wenn du planst dort zu wohnen.
  Für Urlaub, bitte, danke, tschüß/ciao/ auf Wiedersehen und Google translate reicht 😅
  meine meiner nach.

100% englisch? Dünnes Eis zwiebel. Dünnes Eis!
- 7x "Sprich" ergibt immerhin eine Deutsch-Quote von ~27%
  
  Danke mein lieber Hofmathematiker. Das eis hat sich damit um 27% verdickt.
  Aber zwiebel pass trotzdem auf 😤
  
  Zwei dumme, ein Gedanke...
- 19 zu 7 ist eine Reduktion um 63,15789%
  
  c/ertatdiemathematik

I don't follow this sub, and still getting german posts on a regular basis
- Legit tempted to learn German because the meme pool is so dam high
  
  Tu es.
  
  If some volunteers always translated and explained the posts on this sub that go over 100 upvotes I would've known German by now.
- Heartwarming, isn't it?
- Google translate is a lifesaver.
  These German folks have funnier memes.
  
  And you probably don't even get the puns by translating, right? If someone doesn't know German, they wouldn't understand how much it störs?
- Same, God just wants me to see y'all

I like trying to figure it out. It's one of my favorite things about Lemmy that I can find non US focused communities.
- Stay curious, it's a nice quality! :)

I don't even follow the sub lol, it just hits my front page anyways, y'all are great though.

I enjoy trying to puzzle posts and comments put from my Duolingo tier knowledge and context clues. On the few occasions I've asked about something grammar wise everyone was very polite and helpful. Top tier community
- Top tier homie.

Am I doing this correctly?
- a bit too early (its not wednesday ma dude)
- Good try but wrong day

As a non-german-speaker, I feel like I get plenty of good laughs out of ich_iel. I only feel like I'm missing out on some of the best posts.
- No worries. As a near-native German speaker, I struggle.
  
  As a native German speaker I struggle too

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Danke schön! Ich lerne immer noch Deutsch und finde die Memes lustig!
- Michmichs
  
  Mai🌽

I thought I knew German decently, this place has made my brain hurt.
- What we do is called "Zangendeutsch", which means, that we force translate everything into German, even if the translation is absolute bullshit or completely wrong.
  
  ~~even~~ especially if the translation is absolute bullshit or completely wrong.
  FTFY
  
  Ihr übersetzt es nicht, sondern ihr erfindet ähnlich aussehende deutsche Wörter.
  
  I got some of that, but there are posts in here where I have zero idea what’s going on even knowing the source English meme text.
  It reminds me a bit of engrish aka English texts in Japan. Though those are more generally humorous at their literal meanings.
  Aber, Danke für die Erklärung!

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i like looking at your funny word memes and imagining what it could be about
- If you have two possibilitys what a meme could be about, its always the one thats more stupid.
  
  such is life

I studied German around 20 years ago, but have forgotten most of it. It's fun to see what I can still understand when posts pop up.

Pretty close to learning German so I can shitpost here

SPRICH!!!
- Quatsch
  
  DU
  
  UND

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Thanks. I love this place even though I only fully understand like one post a month lol

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- Dis sin Gefühle, die wo man schwer in Worte fassen kann. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Danke

It's like a 50/50 thing with me. Some go over my head, some I get and chuckle. Regardless, staying subbed makes me feel "cultured".

Bows i am confused daily.
- Bogen iCH bin verwechselt täglich.
  
  Weißt du, mein Sohny, auch ich renne ironisch Bogen.
  
  Ich nutze Bogen bei dem Weg

Sprich oder scheiss bustaben dammit wir dir lesen kann.
- *damit wir es lesen können.
  Buchstaben groß.

I always wondered what the meaning of this sub was, what is ich-iel?
- me irl but ich im echten leben
  
  Been wondering this for YEARS
  
  Oooh thank you!!

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Idk fuck about German but I wonder how many people joined thinking it'd be a Rammstein thing.
I saw it alot with babymetal, people learn a few lyrics than join Japanese communities thinking they'll all join in.

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