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Originally posted by Meat187 Téléphone-moi! (Is that right?)

donnez-moi le telephone sil v'ous plait?

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Originally posted by Meat187 Ruf mich an!

I have a German oral exam next week that will determine whether I can graduate.

lulz.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov I have an oral exam next week that will determine whether I can graduate.

Better do those jaw exercises.

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Originally posted by Frenchie Better do those jaw exercises.

Dann dankte die dicke Dame dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker die dicke Dame durch den dicken Dreck trug.

German's "Unique New York."

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov I have a German oral exam next week that will determine whether I can graduate. lulz.

I can only imagine how difficult learning German must be. I've never met someone who learned it and got the grammar only halfway right.

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Originally posted by Meat187 I can only imagine how difficult learning German must be. I've never met someone who learned it and got the grammar only halfway right.

Yeah, there are a lot of rules, that's for sure. I'm ok except for when I get into hatte/hätte or konnten/könnten or werden/geworden territory.

Also, whenever I try to speak, I jump into sentences before fully deciding what case (Nominativ, Dativ, etc.) it is I'm using.

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Originally posted by Banora Whew, who knew dork-speak could be so hot?

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Originally posted by lücid try { if (buttersFlirting == successful) { takePantsOff(); } if (buttersFlirting != successful) { banHim(); } } catch(e) { if (e instanceof ButtersDoesNotExist) { fail_pic.src="fail.jpg"; } if (e instanceof BanDoesNotExist) { fail_pic.src="sasha_cig_picture.jpg"; } }

fixed.

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Strangely, I think the right way to go is without consciously using grammar or rules. You just need a feeling for what sounds right or wrong. But I guess it takes years to develop that.

Edit: Regarding that, I've read that there's sort of a window for learning languages that ends at an age of about 6 or 7 years. Anything you learn after that will never feel like a first language to you and never be as fluent.

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Originally posted by Meat187 Strangely, I think the right way to go is without consciously using grammar or rules. You just need a feeling for what sounds right or wrong. But I guess it takes years to develop that. Edit: Regarding that, I've read that there's sort of a window for learning languages that ends at an age of about 6 or 7 years. Anything you learn after that will never feel like a first language to you and never be as fluent.

+1 to the first part - all the way

totally disagree with the second part
I started with French when I was 14 and I'm now fluent (écrit et orale). My parents moved to Canada when they were 35 and they're both fluent. Their accents are funny but they don't speak from memory - they feel the language.

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

Some dance to remember ~ Some dance to forget

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Originally posted by Ania_xox totally disagree with the second part I started with French when I was 14 and I'm now fluent (écrit et orale). My parents moved to Canada when they were 35 and they're both fluent. Their accents are funny but they don't speak from memory - they feel the language.

The point is more that it will never feel like your mother tongue to you, not that you won't speak it fluently.

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Nothing can feel like your mother tongue, but your mother tongue.

On the other hand, I grew up learning Polish and English equally.
There are lots of hybrids like that, especially in Canada.
It's kinda fucked.

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

Some dance to remember ~ Some dance to forget