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löschen (verb, löschte, hat gelöscht) means to delete (a file, a message, ...) but also to put out a fire (-> ein Feuer/einen Brand löschen)

löschen (verb, löschte, hat gelöscht) means to delete (a file, a message, ...) but also to put out a fire (-> ein Feuer/einen Brand löschen)

i noticed that as a non-native german speaker i can often figure out much faster what other foreigners are trying to say, either because i remember struggling to find a fitting word and just saying one with similar meaning hoping it would make sense or because you get very good at guessing based on the context when you have limited vocabulary, like how my italian boss said "der Raum zum Wechseln" and i instantly got it even though that's not how you would usually say "changing" when talking about changing clothes, or how i can understand what my mom is trying to say in german even when it would not make sense in either of the languages because i somehow know how she got there, i know the meaning she's trying to convey even if the words themselves are not quite right for it, which is fascinating to think about

also!! a "mistake" i am quite fond of is when people translate a phrase directly from their native language, a girl in my class once said we should "das Licht öffnen" because that's one way of saying it in her native vietnamese

i wonder how often i have said something like that and not realized it, i still catch myself referring to words like "Hose" and "Schere" in the plural when i don't mean to because there's no singular for them in my language so that's how i think of them. the fact that these nouns are somehow always feminine and thus actually very similar to their plural form is NOT helping lmao

same case for grammatical gender which i find SO interesting. i remember watching videos about how the language we speak changes the way we think and how grammatical gender influences the way we view animals and inanimate objects

like i can say "der Kopf" correctly and then immedately refer to it with "sie" in the next sentence if i'm not paying attention. i think it's because i know the rules as i memorized them (Artikel + noun), but when i think of an actual head first thing that comes to my mind is the feminine form, regardless of the word i'm using, as if in my mind the object itself was feminine and not the word

wow sorry for the rant i just love languages i love communicating with different people and i love german! such a fun and beautiful language

Ich habe die letzten Wochen auf den Release dieses Lieds gewartet! (Lyrics and word help (for italicized words) under the cut)

Here's a new German song by two collaborating artists, Sinu and Haller! 🎶🎵

The song Linien (engl.: lines) addresses family dynamics, generational trauma and breaking the cycle.

Grammatically, it's rather easy to understand, but there is a couple words and expressions that might trip up German learners.

I was doing an English to German translation and I can’t remember the exact sentence but it was something like ‘We visited every other weekend to help him and bring him home.” And basically I repeated my ‘um’ for the ‘um zu’ clause and essentially ended the sentence with ‘um ihn nach Hause umzubringen’

On the last day of my grammar class, my tutor said we should get into groups and write cautionary short stories together. My group was told to write about ‘eine Studentin’ they decided the ‘cautionary’ part would be about learning your grammar correctly. I shared this particular grammar mistake and the story then became about a student who got arrested for murder because of this exact mistake.

I love this!! How cool that you got to integreate that mistake in a creative story, what a turnaround! The mistake that is seared into my brain was at thanksgiving dinner in my exchange year in Canada. I was asked whether I like baking, after which I went on a little ramble about liking baking very much but with being fructose intolerant I feel very limited in what I can bake blablabla, eventually the increasingly confused look of the asker made me stop and he said "Sorry, I asked whether you like bacon"