Thanks. That’s a nice trick/tip for practising.
Re: AI. I found it quite useful for explanations (using Gemini Pro), there are a few things that only clicked after drilling down in to the details with an LLM. I felt like an annoying kid asking “buy why” constantly.
Just signed up for a German course starting next September. Socializing a bit doesn’t hurt 
Gits ekai Schwitzertütschb Kürs?
Hochdeutsch is hard enough. I’m taking the easy road
C’mon … Schwitzertüsch is so easy I was even able to pick it up as a toddler!
(I’ll see myself out)
Just saw this. Yeah, that’s how I was when they tried to teach it in school when I was about 13. TBF I always am like that, but I just could not get my head round it, and the only answers were along the lines of “it just is.”
* Secher scho
Le Faux pas: you can’t wave the FCL flag and pronounce “sicher” in the Zurich dialect of “sicher” … it’s “secher” in Lucerne.
Told you it’s so easy any toddler can pick this up …
(I’ll see myself out, promise)
I ka mache wos i wot
… und redä wider d Schnorrä gwachsenisch!
No joke, but I did not hear high german until I had to go to church! No, I’m too young, it was not latin, it was high german. Same for me, did not understand a word.
At like 5 years of age they destroyed my language habits and I had to learn high german. Which nobody speaks here except the priest…
Much to my annoyance I seem to have dropped my already mild Augsburg-swabian accent in my normal day to day dealings for a more neutral intonation and was asked recently if I came from Hannover.
But if I boost the gain I can still irritate the Bavarian locals who make faces like they have been sucking on lemons when I talk to them.
I’m back to the German school since 2 weeks ago. The teacher is really kind and supportive.
I was laughing today because the German sentences we learn are so polite. In daily life l’m lost somewhere among assertive and authoritative or asshole. So, the politeness is something new beyond learning a new language. I’ll do my best 
Just got back from the Deutschkurs. German is not difficult, it’s only presented in a different way.
All these years, I could never link nominative, akkusativ and dativ to anything. They felt like empty words.
I guess I suffer from utilitarianism. I don’t care much about the pronoun type, I don’t want to learn what the pronoun IS. I do care about how I can use the damned pronouns to my personal advantage
It’s just missing the ablative…Latin 5 years for me, and I still can’t master German.
same here. even using direct object and indirect object doesn’t help me. i always wonder which is the direct and which the indirect. if “the man gives the stick to the dog”, i always get confused whether stick or dog is direct/indirect.
“Der Mann gibt dem Hund den Stock.”
And more confusing since in german you don’t have ‘to’ and dative noun is preferred first and of course you have to remember correctly the gender of the noun to be able to perform proper declension. Usually by the time I manage to do this (if I manage at all) the conversation has moved on.
You break it down with ‘what is being done to whom (or what)’.
The man (subject) is giving the stick (object) to the dog (indirect object).
You can add some adjectives and adverbs as make-up and glamour to the subject, object and indirect object but the format remains.
And whatabout English? I take to my wife -nice. I take a stick to my wife - funny choice of present. I take to my wife with a stick - no, not funny.
Laughing like an idiot in the forest,. Thankful that the German teacher made us play with a lotto of animal names
I may get kicked out of the Deutschkurs
The teacher was ranting about Diverse (non-binary) in German. The rant was about using a person’s name instead of pronouns.
I had the bright idea to say: “Das ist einfach”. Precisely because I’m an ignoramus that can’t handle all the declinations of pronouns in German I just use the first name of a person. I’m sure I sound repetitive and cause migraine in native speakers, but using the first name is a way to make things work in spite of being so ignorant.
The purpose of communication is to communicate, not to please. Well, let’s see what happens next Thursday haha.
