Learning German language: The German Learners' Society (MKII)

I've never seen any German texts written in text language tbh...will have to ask!

hi hannah_dru,

what is text language?

ah, na dann brauchst Du mich schon mal nicht fragen, ich hab' keine Ahnung, ob's das im Deutschen auch gibt.

es gibt sicher!..auf jeden Fall!..es gibt so "text language" in jeder Sprache

Basically! To give you an example "As Liasal håd se an Hàxn/Hàx brocha" (Lisa hat sich das Bein gebrochen).

From my limited knowledge of them (jag talar lite svenska nu! ), it sounds more similar to the Scandinavian languages or an outdated form of English (Chaucer, in the original?) than to actual German

If I remember correctly from my language classes where we learnt about dialect I think it is.

From my limited knowledge of them (jag talar lite svenska nu! ), it sounds more similar to the Scandinavian languages or an outdated form of English (Chaucer, in the original?) than to actual German

Svenska?..det är inte so bra!

Varför?

foer att jag kan inte svenska

åh, det är en skam It's not so difficult, after German, as they are similar-ish And once you can understand Swedish, you can also understand Norwegian and bits of Danish!

if you know german and english well, dutch isnt too difficult.
Miss seems to have worked out that I'm fine translating things from DE-EN if the eng translation is not too dissimilar to the german. So now I'm being asked to do the ones where the german cannot be translated literally into english. Cue much panic from me.

Mmm Dutch too, it's so much fun seeing how they all link into each other! You can look at packaging and see in all the Germanic languages how similar the words are When my friend told me that the Swedish word for child is bårn, and I thought how similar it is to the Scots bairn, that was true linguistic joy my friend
/geekiness

Try saying it out loud for the translations, often if you get the words separately then you need to formulate it into how it would actually be said, which is harder. That's why it's so great that the reading & listening (for me at least?) are answers in German because you just literally write what they say
Don't panic, you're awesome

Very interesting Do you know anything about how it developed?

I am so impatient to get to university now, I want to learn all these things!

I don't unfortunately. I just googled it and apparently there are 3 types: Austro/Bavarian, Swabian German (I think that was the one I heard the most) and East Franconian German (heard a bit as some friends come from that area).

ty. Ich liebe dich, und du auch! Now I'm going to go and finish bio, then blow my brains to pieces with german homework. translation doesnt look too bad, but its EN-DE, its the for/ against citizenship tests table I've got to do that looks horrible.