I write "Congrats" because I don't know how to spell "Congratulations" correctly

[Zoots]

Congratulations is nothing compared to these words!

For shame, Beav

 

[Galeongirl]

oh oh, I know a good german one!
Streichholzschächtelchen

hope I spelled that right...

it means matchbox...

the only english word I really have issues with is dessert/desert... I ALWAYS forget which one is the sandy dryness and which one is the delicious food...

 

[Zoots]

I could drool over German forever

schwartzwälder kirschtorte (black forest cherry cake)
französische zwiebelsuppe (french onion soup)

Oh how I love those umlauts!

 

[Vincent Vega]

I thought German had tough words until I saw Dutch!

Example: Betriebswirtschaftslehre is german for management studies.

That's part of my studies. My main subject is Volkswirtschaftslehre.

Streichholzschächtelchen is spelt perfectly right.

You might like the name Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.

 

[cobl04]

I'll stick to English.

 

[redhotswami]

oh oh, I know a good german one!
Streichholzschächtelchen

hope I spelled that right...

it means matchbox...

the only english word I really have issues with is dessert/desert... I ALWAYS forget which one is the sandy dryness and which one is the delicious food...

remember, you want 2 servings of dessert (hence the 2 S).

 

[U2democrat]

mmm German


I love how it simply strings a bunch of words together to make one long one...to the untrained eye it's extremely difficult but if you just break it down it's simple.

 

[The Sad Punk]

To be honest, reading German and Dutch words is actually sort of refreshing after learning Greek, they use an alphabet I actually completely remember.

 

[Galeongirl]

That's part of my studies. My main subject is Volkswirtschaftslehre.

Streichholzschächtelchen is spelt perfectly right.

You might like the name Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.

yay! annnnd is this one spelled right?
eisenbahnknotenpunkthinundhirschieber?

 

[Vincent Vega]

Nearly perfect, just one letter: After the "und" it would be "her", not "hir".

And, this is not really a German word. It's rather a word made up to impress foreigners or something. The word doesn't make sense either.

An Eisenbahnknotenpunkt is a railway junction, and a "Hin- und herschieber" would be a person that moves those junctions around, physically. Even the strongest of the "Titans" couldn't possibly do that.

 

[cobl04]

Hang on.... the fifty million letter words aren't one word but many words joined together? Well that doesn't count. That's not impressive after all

 

[Angela Harlem]

I have this on my toolbar

b/c I am a terrible speller.

yep. now, if only there were a way to remember to use the bloody thing.

 

[Angela Harlem]

and while i'm here, i may as well ask.. does anyone speak mandarin/know pinyin? i figured i've fucked up english for long enough, so i may as well take a crack at someone else's, and am thus currently fucking up my way through mandarin. it's great.

 

[BoMac]

^ ni hao ma?

 

[Angela Harlem]

ni hao!

 

[redhotswami]

ni hao!

 

[UberBeaver]

ichi nichi!

 

[Dismantled]

I do the same

congradulations? is that right!

I do the same with refridgerator and restaurant

 

[Angela Harlem]

ichi nichi!

that sounds japanese! unless there are a whole bunch of syllables i am yet to discover... which would be just my bloody luck, with the exam coming up in 3 or so weeks and me being as prepared as something very unprepared... etc.

 

[UberBeaver]

that sounds japanese! unless there are a whole bunch of syllables i am yet to discover... which would be just my bloody luck, with the exam coming up in 3 or so weeks and me being as prepared as something very unprepared... etc.

hai! Nippon!

That's pretty good you could recognize that. There's something to be proud of. Shows a level of preparedness.

 

[redhotswami]

ooooo!
nihongo a hanashimasu?

 

[phillyfan26]

toyota nissan mitsubishi

 

[Galeongirl]

omae korosu

or the nice one, omae koronimas

 

[Canadiens1131]

I could drool over German forever

schwartzwälder kirschtorte (black forest cherry cake)
französische zwiebelsuppe (french onion soup)

Oh how I love those umlauts!

Ugh, despite their country's affinity for putting out top-class pornography, I have to say the German language is not exactly my favourite, phonetically.

It sure looks nice with all those long words with lots of Zs scrawled out in Helvetica on official signs though.

 

[Angela Harlem]

hai! Nippon!

That's pretty good you could recognize that. There's something to be proud of. Shows a level of preparedness.

Thanks, Ubeav.
I wonder if differentiating between Mandarin and Japanese could count in my exam? Is hai Nippon hello or something?

 

[UberBeaver]

Hai = Yes. Nippon = Japan. Maybe, I don't know. I don't speak Japanese. ichi nichi means 11 or something. I taught myself the numbers about a year ago, but I forgot them.

ichi ni san ... jin...roku...I dunno.

 

[Angela Harlem]

damnit, of course it is, lol. i did judo for a few years and counting to 10 is very ingrained in my brain. buried, obviously, but still there.. somewhere. i recognise it now. how the hell did i forget this..

 

[UberBeaver]

Volcano = fire mountain.
I like the way they think over there.

 

[cobl04]

ich, ni, san, shi, go, rook, sich, hach, ku, ju

that's all i remember

and in japanese nearly everthing ends with 'des' which means this true and des ka is a question and

 

[Butterscotch]

I know how you feel . I say 'stats' because I can't pronounce 'statistics'