Ich bin ein Berliner auch

[ouzo2]

As an American I think I know more than anyone that Bush is somewhat retarded. This video is kind of funny... and the Greek alphabet isn't that bad. Russian... on the other hand, ehhh...

[YxtremY]

i hope bush is no berliner -.-

ich hoffe bush ist kein berliner -.-

[OAFCguy]

Ä, Ö, Ü and ß. I use them daily .. Am I saying it wrong lol

ß is becoming uncommen though. In Austria (Österreich), do they use it?

[tstokemb]

Bush n'est pas bonne, vous devez toujours se moquer de lui car il a détruit États-Unis

[Sicklehead88]

you could write "innocentcitron at gmx dot be"

or something ;-)

[Sicklehead88]

great! but it would be "ich bin auch ein Berliner" ;-)

never mind, great vid!

[InnocentCitron]

danke sehr ... for your attempt at the impossible (my getting good at speaking German!)

[Sicklehead88]

hehe ^^

i think german is a very hard language to learn. i mean, we got 3 words for "the" (der, die, das) and its hard to learn, when you use which article. for englisch speaking people the pronounciation of some letters is also very complicated, for example the "ü", "r" and the "ch"

[Sicklehead88]

but i just read, that you're from belgium ^^ je pense, que tu peut mieux parler francaise, que anglais, c'est vrais?

sorry, i've never been good at grammer and spelling in french ^^

[InnocentCitron]

I actually am almost as good in English as in French and Walloon (my mother language)- because I went often to the US for extended stays (up to 20 months) for work reasons. I also speak/read some Dutch - which helps me a lot to understand German - which I actually learned only 1 hour per week during one school year almost 50 years ago.

[InnocentCitron]

I would like to translate the BushPilot.wmv (do you know that one ?) from German into French - or Rather in Walloon, but there are lengthy parts of the German dialogue that I don't understand. Could you write them down in German for me : written German is easier to understand.

Thanks ....

[Sicklehead88]

sure, i could give a try.....at the moment i have no time, because i'm not at home, but when i'm home tomorrow, i'll give you my e-mail adress, and then you can mail me the text :)

[InnocentCitron]

Alas youtube does not allow us to send e-mail addresses or wep pages references.

Enter bushpilot.wmv into google

the first entry refers to some swiss gentleman

you can get the wmv, thus the oral, verbal text this way.

I shall think over and invent a way for me to let you have my email.

[PeanutBoy101]

whats that first letter you said at the end? u with dots above? how in hell is that spoken?

you know i visited germany a year or two ago and i think its the grammatics that makes it hard to learn your language.

the headline of this video for example is a classical translation mistake. in english we say "too" always at the end of the sentence, its quit hard to get in your head when do you have to say it in german.

same as your articles der die das i can never remind when i have to say what :D

[Sicklehead88]

hm, i can't tell you, how it is spoken, cause in englisch there is no such sounds. that's why esspecially the Ü is very hard to pronounce for native english speakers. i don't know, if you can speak some french, but the german ü sounds like an u in french.....btw, do you know Ä Ö and ß yet? ^^

[PeanutBoy101]

my god you got some strange letters :D

no i dont speak french only (american) english and a tiny bit german

do these letters occur often in your language?

[ZwockelMonster]

They don´t occur THAT often.

The german "Ü" sounds a little like the "u" in for example the english word "huge".

You don´t need to worry about the german "ß" we ourselfes don´t use this letter anymore and it´s spoken like a "s"

[Sicklehead88]

we still use the ß, for example in straße, or spaß, etc

[ZwockelMonster]

ah, youre right, i thought of daß -> dass

But you COULD write : Spass, Strasse

Mal im Ernst, wer blickt noch durch die neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung durch? ;)

[ZwockelMonster]

Ah, you are right

I thought about daß -> dass

But you COULD write Strasse, Spass.

Mal im Ernst, wer blickt noch durch die neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung durch? ;)

[Sicklehead88]

yeah, but when you read it, it looks strange... you usually just write strasse, when you write it in capital letters

[nightwish1000]

what? dont tell them nonsense please...the "ß" is still in use.

[kanssasi]

Look at the Greeks and the Russians, they have strange letters...hehe^^

Ä, Ö, Ü and ß (we still use the last one, by the way) don't occur extremely often in German, but it would be better not too pronounce or write the first three like A, O and U, since that can be misleading in some cases:

"Handel" for example means "trade", while "Händel" means "trades"; "[ich] fluche" means "I curse", "Flüche" means "curses".

Also, after diphtongs, you always use ß instead of an S.