Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

I was adding to get the yearly cost for an AS- or an A2-level. £299 course+£40 exam fees+£10 postage for distance learning materials (charging postage? I expect to get free postage and packing if I've spent over £50 online!)
Have I misread it?

I think you want 'das' actually, because it's a relative pronoun. Polymath? Octopus? Help?

As a rule of thumb, I think if you can't replace a word by pointing your finger at it then it should be 'dass'

But this is a rule I made up, so ofc I can be wrong


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Yes, I had plans about how I was going to teach my children languages, but now I have them, it turns out I'm terrified of permanently impairing their ability to manage an authentic accent! So they watch foreign language DVDs with me, instead. Linguaphone videos are really good; they naturally imitate the people on the video. One toddler started producing a wonderful "Bonjour"!

I'm not entirely sure of the context this is in, but looking back at the quoted posts, I think he does want "das ich", presuming he wants the relative pronoun.

Das Auto ist das, das ich gefahren habe.
Das Auto ist da, dass ich es fahren darf.

Is there actually any slight pronunciation difference between "das" and "dass"? I thought "dass" had a longer 's' sound.

As a rule of thumb, I think if you can't replace a word by pointing your finger at it then it should be 'dass'

But this is a rule I made up, so ofc I can be wrong


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Yes, but you're referring to "etwas", so you need a 'das'.

Ohhh ich verstehe!
But you can't use "was" instead though?


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MangoFreak: If we assume you're not going to fast-track it (!) in a year, then surely you only pay for the course you're doing that year. That's how it normally works... Of course, if you did fast-track it, maybe they're combine postage on the AS stuff and the A2 stuff. That's £10 saved! *drop in the ocean emoticon*

No, because 'was' can only mean 'which' in the sense that the relative clause (the 'der'/'die' etc clause) refers to the entire sentence/idea.

z.B.:

Da steht der Mann, der mich gern zusammenschlägt.

Here, we are only referring to the man that likes to beat me up.

Manche Leute essen heutzutage Bäume, was für mich ein riesiges Problem geworden ist.

Here we are referring to the whole idea of people eating trees, not a specific thing. Here, we can only use 'was', because there's not one single noun in the sentence that I think is a problem, rather than entire notion of it.

汉语怎么样？

Is there actually any slight pronunciation difference between "das" and "dass"? I thought "dass" had a longer 's' sound.

I got UMS of 39/40 on a past paper! (French Listening)

How do you know the UMS? And aren't they normally in %? Unless youre talking about the raw marks...in which case your score of 39/40 would be quite neat!

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Nooooo. Also I'm a bit offended that I wasn't among those appealed to for German advice.

I know that for AQA at least, there's a raw mark - UMS converter.