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I did a Duolingo course in German but sitting around a table with a group of Germans on holiday I would not follow their conversation. I did try, but it didn't come easily. It was such as effort. I shall be seeing them again next year.
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I must try to learn a little German every day. Never miss an opportunity. Today I received an email from a German organiser of our hiking group. He speaks with a slightly clipped German accent but his written English is embarrassingly word perfect.
On second reading I find that a German sentence has been added at the end by the system. It reads:
Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit GMX Mail gesendet.
I can work out the gist of because I get the same message in English. The gist of the message is This (email?) was sent from my mobile phone. In detail and more exact word for word translation:
German- English
diese - this (dis and this - languages often change a d into a t or a th and a t into a D)
Nachricht?
wurde - was
von - with
menem - my
Android - Android
Mobiltelefon - mobile telephone
mit - with (the German and English words both contain the letters it, and the looks like an upside down w)
GMX Mail - GMX Mail
gesendet - sent
This message reminds us of three things to notice about German grammar.
1 The verb comes at the end of the sentence.
2 Nouns are treated like proper names and start with capital letters. So Nachricht is a noun.
3 ge prefixes something done in the past, often passive ge-... means something was done. ge-send-et, was sent. Remove the ge and you recognize both the past and the verb to send.
I looked up Nachricht
nachtricht - message
nacht - night
richt - right
but I have mistakenly added the t to nach
nach richt - to judge
nach - after
Now let's see the English first for the words we have learned
after - nach
mail - Mail (capital for a noun or a proper name)
message - Nachricht (capital initial for a noun)
mobile - mobil
mobile phone - Mobiltelefon (capital initial for a noun)
my - menem
night - nacht
right - richt
sent - gesendet
telephone - telefon
to judge - nachtricht
this - diese
was - wurde
with - von
Here are some more
English- German
email - die Email (the email, capital letter for a noun)
junk mail - Junk-Mail / die wufsendungen (looks like a combination of woof and dung; think those wolves or dogs sent me dung again un in junk and un in dungen)
German - English
Post - mail
die Post - mail, post, post office
die Reklame - advertising (like the word reclaim - they want to reclaim a customer)
versenden - forward, send, mail, despatch
Useful Websites For Learning German and Translating
duolingo.com
learn German for English speakers.
If you have friends who speak other languages, tell them about Duolingo has or shortly will have:
Learn English for speakers of German and other languages, currently for Spanish speakers, Portuguese speakers, Russian speakers, Arabic speakers, French speakers, Hindi speakers, Turkish speakers, Chinese speakers, Vietnamese speakers, Polish speakers, Indonesian speakers, Romanian speakers,Dutch speakers, Hungarian speakers, Czech speakers, Korean speakers, Ukrainian speakers, Thai speakers, Tagalog speakers (from the Philippines), Bengali speakers.
English for Tamil speakers (is Hatching - in progress 38% done in July 2018, estimated launch 11/6/18. That can't be June which has gone, so it is not the UK way of dating with the day first but American style. That means November 6th 2018).
Google translate, translates most languages including German, which is similar to languages spoken and understood by people speaking Austrian, Swiss-German and Yiddish
See
https://www.duolingo.com/courses/all
Translation
translategoogle.com
If you think you can do better, or you can help translate or correct mis-translations and wrong spellings, you can help various sites including Duolingo (if you are bilingual) or if you can check spelling, offer to help Wikihow.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of English and other languages.
I did a Duolingo course in German but sitting around a table with a group of Germans on holiday I would not follow their conversation. I did try, but it didn't come easily. It was such as effort. I shall be seeing them again next year.
Answers
I must try to learn a little German every day. Never miss an opportunity. Today I received an email from a German organiser of our hiking group. He speaks with a slightly clipped German accent but his written English is embarrassingly word perfect.
On second reading I find that a German sentence has been added at the end by the system. It reads:
Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit GMX Mail gesendet.
I can work out the gist of because I get the same message in English. The gist of the message is This (email?) was sent from my mobile phone. In detail and more exact word for word translation:
German- English
diese - this (dis and this - languages often change a d into a t or a th and a t into a D)
Nachricht?
wurde - was
von - with
menem - my
Android - Android
Mobiltelefon - mobile telephone
mit - with (the German and English words both contain the letters it, and the looks like an upside down w)
GMX Mail - GMX Mail
gesendet - sent
This message reminds us of three things to notice about German grammar.
1 The verb comes at the end of the sentence.
2 Nouns are treated like proper names and start with capital letters. So Nachricht is a noun.
3 ge prefixes something done in the past, often passive ge-... means something was done. ge-send-et, was sent. Remove the ge and you recognize both the past and the verb to send.
I looked up Nachricht
nachtricht - message
nacht - night
richt - right
but I have mistakenly added the t to nach
nach richt - to judge
nach - after
Now let's see the English first for the words we have learned
after - nach
mail - Mail (capital for a noun or a proper name)
message - Nachricht (capital initial for a noun)
mobile - mobil
mobile phone - Mobiltelefon (capital initial for a noun)
my - menem
night - nacht
right - richt
sent - gesendet
telephone - telefon
to judge - nachtricht
this - diese
was - wurde
with - von
Here are some more
English- German
email - die Email (the email, capital letter for a noun)
junk mail - Junk-Mail / die wufsendungen (looks like a combination of woof and dung; think those wolves or dogs sent me dung again un in junk and un in dungen)
German - English
Post - mail
die Post - mail, post, post office
die Reklame - advertising (like the word reclaim - they want to reclaim a customer)
versenden - forward, send, mail, despatch
Useful Websites For Learning German and Translating
duolingo.com
learn German for English speakers.
If you have friends who speak other languages, tell them about Duolingo has or shortly will have:
Learn English for speakers of German and other languages, currently for Spanish speakers, Portuguese speakers, Russian speakers, Arabic speakers, French speakers, Hindi speakers, Turkish speakers, Chinese speakers, Vietnamese speakers, Polish speakers, Indonesian speakers, Romanian speakers,Dutch speakers, Hungarian speakers, Czech speakers, Korean speakers, Ukrainian speakers, Thai speakers, Tagalog speakers (from the Philippines), Bengali speakers.
English for Tamil speakers (is Hatching - in progress 38% done in July 2018, estimated launch 11/6/18. That can't be June which has gone, so it is not the UK way of dating with the day first but American style. That means November 6th 2018).
Google translate, translates most languages including German, which is similar to languages spoken and understood by people speaking Austrian, Swiss-German and Yiddish
See
https://www.duolingo.com/courses/all
Translation
translategoogle.com
If you think you can do better, or you can help translate or correct mis-translations and wrong spellings, you can help various sites including Duolingo (if you are bilingual) or if you can check spelling, offer to help Wikihow.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of English and other languages.
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