Reply to: Die englischer garten dis morgen

[vetran]

English is considerably easier to pick up reasonable fluency than German is. One of the factors is that if you mispronounce an English word to an English person, there's a fair chance they'll understand what they mean. But get your ie/ei the wrong way round, or bungle your umlauts, and they'll look at you blankly. When I said I was having a ski holiday at Davos (standard English pronunciation) they had no idea where I was going - until I say dah-v[oh]s, with the emphasis on the second syllable. Personally I think they do it to annoy.

The french are the same.

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English is considerably easier to pick up reasonable fluency than German is. One of the factors is that if you mispronounce an English word to an English person, there's a fair chance they'll understand what they mean. But get your ie/ei the wrong way round, or bungle your umlauts, and they'll look at you blankly. When I said I was having a ski holiday at Davos (standard English pronunciation) they had no idea where I was going - until I say dah-v[oh]s, with the emphasis on the second syllable. Personally I think they do it to annoy.

[NotAllThere]

English is considerably easier to pick up reasonable fluency than German is. One of the factors is that if you mispronounce an English word to an English person, there's a fair chance they'll understand what they mean. But get your ie/ei the wrong way round, or bungle your umlauts, and they'll look at you blankly. When I said I was having a ski holiday at Davos (standard English pronunciation) they had no idea where I was going - until I say dah-v[oh]s, with the emphasis on the second syllable. Personally I think they do it to annoy.

[scooterscot]

Yeah - Der Englische Garten an diesem Morgen. As I said - awful language.

Awful language nothing, some wains back home cannot even speak english dat well/good.

[scooterscot]

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[NotAllThere]

Or 'Der Englische Garten an diesem Morgen'?

Capital 'M' too, remember!

Yeah - Der Englische Garten an diesem Morgen. As I said - awful language.

[barrydidit]

Only -5 and no snow where I am. But skiing in the Black Forest tomorrow.

Dieser isn't good German - you should use heute. Literally "today morning". Der Englische Garten heute morgen

The awful German language.

Nah, that's the Bobs you're thinking of.

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Only -5 and no snow where I am. But skiing in the Black Forest tomorrow.

Dieser isn't good German - you should use heute. Literally "today morning". Der Englische Garten heute morgen

The awful German language.

Or 'Der Englische Garten an diesem Morgen'?

Capital 'M' too, remember!

[scooterscot]

Only -5 and no snow where I am. But skiing in the Black Forest tomorrow.

Dieser isn't good German - you should use heute. Literally "today morning". Der Englische Garten heute morgen

The awful German language.

'Heute morgen' ist möglich, oder?

[NotAllThere]

Only -5 and no snow where I am. But skiing in the Black Forest tomorrow.

Nominative I think, so dieser Morgen.

Dieser isn't good German - you should use heute. Literally "today morning". Der Englische Garten heute morgen

The awful German language.

[scooterscot]

Nominative I think, so dieser Morgen.

You're absolutely correct. Forever making that mistake. I'm just happy I'm understood most of the time!

Taking 2-3 months out of working life this year to study the language. It's beyond irritating now.

[scooterscot]

[BlasterBates]

Die englischer garten dis morgen

[VectraMan]

My missus is a fluent German speaker and I well remember her learning nouns with the article - whilst there are some rather flaccid rules you can apply, the proper way is to learn it with the article too.

And its '...diesen Morgen' isn't it?

Nominative I think, so dieser Morgen.

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der Garten.

I think. I spent ages trying to memorize bloody german noun genders; please don't confuse me now.

My missus is a fluent German speaker and I well remember her learning nouns with the article - whilst there are some rather flaccid rules you can apply, the proper way is to learn it with the article too.

And its '...diesen Morgen' isn't it?