#i even started learning german

[diathadevil]

Do you ever think about how Fakir, after him and Ahiru finally broke everything that kept the town of Goldkröne in the ghostly hands of its writer, after they finally have some air of peace over the town finally being able to live in its intended early 2000s environment, that Fakir still feels at times like it's not real and that for a while he fears that if he closes his eyes it'll be back in Drosselmeyer's control. Like it just doesn't feel real to him during that first year of calm, until he feels the dull pain on his recovering hand injury and Ahiru who follows him without a pendant anywhere to be found.

He doesn't feel it's real, the calm finality of this town, but he makes sure to feel the scar on his hand. And he makes sure to hold the little duck and realize that she is who she has always been. Him and the town are finally living peacefully.

#dia talks #princess tutu #He probably starts planning on writing Ahiru into the world mayyybe like 3-4 months into his recovery #he doesn't know what a cell phone is yet but he sure as hell can look at a bookstore and ask for a notebook and pens #i bet that first year in Goldenkröne must be hell because trading deals bring all sorts of new things into the town #Just Fakir going “what the fuck is a scooter?? Wait what's a CAR---” #he ends up having to read a bunch of newspaper articles about “Goldenkröne booming in German tourism!” #Actually does he even know his country's name... Did they all even know they lived in Germany and not JUST a city???? #Drosselmeyer would've really pulled one on them for only talking about the city and its outskirts and NOT the country it resided in #But let's assume they did know. Fakir would have to figure out so much has changed in 2002 Germany compared to whatever time they were in #My god just thinking about the thought of Fakir learning what a television is... or a radio for that matter has me howling internally #local amateur writer is put into a coma after hearing for the very first time german rapper Sido #alternatively: local amateur writer's brain explodes after hearing german Happycore artist Blümchen and dance pop group No Angels #ptutu spoiler #i know its a +20 old show but just in case people wanna watch it i love it enough to tag the post show headcanon #ptutu analysis #ptutu headcanon #ptutu post canon #Also sorry i keep jumbling between Goldkröne and Goldenkröne in the writing its 4 AM and the german part of my brain is a mess lmao #(its supposed to be Goldkröne but for some reason I keep making it into the attribute word Golden so dont mind the mistake) #(if you do i will sob please be gentle towards my polyglot self)

[teepussilakana]

colin becher whereabouts ideas:

- he has managed to find a way to avoid detection (sneaking in when someone uses their keycard/opens the door to get in)

- lena/oiar are aware that he is sneaking in and are allowing it for Reasons ( they know he is onto them but he is still of use to them?)

- he took the day off to keep them off his trail and is currently working on his own conspiracy board to figure out the system

- he got "berried" by mr. bonzo

#tmagp theory #tmagp #the magnus protocol #the magnus protocol theory #the magnus protocol colin becher #colin becher #i got so worried with him not being mentioned even??? everyone worried aboit alice and gwen and celia but baby colin #and mr bonzo is furthest down bc i dont want it to be true he is too valuable to the oiar to just get gotten #he learned german to be able to figure out the code they cant just start over with another it guy

[steelycunt]

adding a new language on duolingo will fix me

#hello Italian. god this is why i will never learn a language i want to learn everything so i dedicate myself to nothing #i want to start german too…but i know enough french that if im going to learn anything that’s my best shot it’s the only language i could #attempt stilted basic necessity conversation in…i refuse to leave this earth without ever being even passable in a language that isn’t mine #(ridi's) bigmouth strikes again

[arcanewebs]

does. anyone else experience the language learning pipeline of like

yeah why not seems kinda fun -> (optional step) the writing system is crazy bro -> damn theres no WAY im gonna remember any of this shit -> genuine interest and fascination with the differences between languages and needing to Know more

and its because of the stupidest reason for starting learning it in the first place

#me personally i only started french because i didnt want to do spanish or german #and we had to take a language #now look at me. ap student gonna take the exam in less than two months #did one course for asl because i needed to fill a credit and it seemed easy enough to do online #and i was so interested by deaf culture and i was having sm fun with learning signs #but i never continued it for?? some reason?? #i didnt take japanese any further than hiragana and some katakana but it was fun learning the writing system #not that i remember more than maybe 30% of it #and now im trying to learn ukrainian on duolingo and other outside sources #partially just bc i was curious #but now im like. very entranced by it #i have a google doc vocab list and everything #its very fun for me :) even if i dont use it in everyday life and if i drop it after a week #its also so fun to speak #I NEED TO. SHUTUP omfg #tldr languages are sk cool.. to Me.. i should take a linguistics class sometime…

[nyahida]

aether and lumine who dont remember their first language of their homeworld anymore. who, if they heard it, i guess they would be able to understand in general, but if they tried to say anything theyd struggle - its been so many centuries, so many worlds, and words of other languages, all mixing, have taken its place.

but who could remember something set like a poem or better, a song, maybe. with all the lyrics as a whole naturally coming back with the melody still. tunes they sang as children, or a lullaby they fell asleep to.

maybe sometimes singing it absentmindedly to themselves as theyre doing something.

maybe sometimes singing it to the wind so it carries the melody to the other.

#genshin impact #aether #lumine #twins #just thimking about Languages (as i usually do) and fluency and losing it #and the one singer who is the last frontier between me and entirely forgetting a language #and randomly remembering lyrics to songs i dont even Like but heard too much #(and also the fucked up inverse case where i remember a lot of lyrics in japanese Before i started learning it except now i understand) #(but that one is irrelevant) #also that one time i learned a piece of the lorelei to get a prize #while NOT SPEAKING GERMAN . #i digress

[andronauts]

tbh, german grammar is so weird.

as someone who’s been learning german for almost a year now, i have to say, german grammar is just so weird…

every language in the world expresses sentences with subjects, verbs and objects. not necessarily in the same order, but they will generally pick an order. english for example uses Subject-Verb-Object (or i’ll say SVO)

I eat food (I - subject, eat - verb, food - object). and this pretty much applies all the time.

other languages might use SOV, or VSO, or any other combination. but german is just. so weird because they don’t follow any one sentence structure at all. they split verbs into two, they rearrange where the verb goes, they put the verbs back together, sometimes it’s at the beginning of the sentence, sometimes it’s at the end. you can have the subject at the start of the sentence, but also you could have the object at the start of the sentence too! why not! for example:

ENG: I’m learning German (SVO), because I have a German boyfriend. (SVO)

nice, simple! subject verb object all around :).

now let’s look at the german translation for this same sentence!

GER: ich lerne Deutsch (SVO), weil ich einen deutschen Freund habe (SOV).

because of the connective WEIL we now have to put the VERB at the end of the sentence.

this is true for other connectives too (ie. wenn)

okay, so wenn (in eng, “when”/“if”) puts the verb at the end so lets see an example of that

ENG: when I eat chocolate (SVO), I am happy (SVO)

oh that’s lovely :) yay! SVO and SVO! its just so simple. now let’s look jn german

GER: wenn ich Schokolade esse (SOV), bin ich glücklich (VSO)

oh so now BIN (in eng, “am”) is at the start? oh… okay I guess!

if we swap the english sentences around, the sentence becomes “I am happy, when I eat chocolate”, which generally means the same thing as the original sentence.

however, if we swap the sentences around in German, it becomes a question. ,“bin ich glücklich, wenn ich Schokolade esse?” since the verb is at the beginning of the sentence, we are now posing a question. “am I happy, when I eat chocolate?” instead.

if we wanted to retain the same meaning, we go back to SVO to become “ich bin glücklich, wenn ich Schokolade esse.”

and now for the last example is that you can swap around Object and Subject in the sentence order and it will make sense and mean the same thing as well?

ENG: I am cooking sausage (SVO)

GER: ich koche Würstchen (SVO)

GER: Würstchen koche ich (OVS)

however if u did that in english it would just be “sausage is cooking me” or “sausage is cooking I” which doesn’t really make any sense at all and you sound crazy. but no, it’s completely valid and normal to just swap word order in German because. you just can?

and I haven’t even talked about split verbs or sentences with two+ verbs yet (I want to eat chocolate) where in english, both the verbs still remain in the SVO sentence structure. but in german it’s just a whole other set of rules to wrap your head around (ich will Schokolade essen) where ich is I - subject, will - “want” (verb), Schokolade is the object (chocolate), and essen is the second verb (to eat). like ? it’s just at the end of the sentence now? literally no other language does this I think

in general most languages will pick one order but german is just so damn weird bc they just switch it up whenever they want just becuz okay german and dont even get me started on split and reflexive verbs 🤦🏻

#language learning #german learning #I just wanted to ramble #german #I love learning german tho #learning grammar is fun I think but its remembering declensions that kills me #at least german vocabulary is easy asf to make up for the weird ass grammar LMFAO #(me starting a sentence and then forgetting to add the second verb) oh well #i dont even know if this post will make sense to anyone i just wrote it for myself bc it was fun #grammar!!!! #english is just so easy 💔 #German grammar n declensions n gendered nouns and compound words like RINDFLEISCHETTIKERUNGSÜBERWACHUNGSAUFGABENÜBERTRAGENGESETZ #i orobably misspelt somewhere #my boyfriend made me memorize that stupid word -__- #real word btw for nongerman speakers

[eatsteas]

spent the last seven years sulking about how i would never learn another language because the best time to learn is when you're a small child and that meant teenage me was too old and decrepit to possibly learn another entire new language but now that im mentally stable enough to realize that it was just my depression talking ive decided to do a duolingo course

#i was learning german when i was 13 and i don't even remember why #i think i thought it was the logical next step to take after learning english #also no it wasn't bc im a kw fan i started listening to them when i was 16 so this came before that #anyway i picked it up again

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#srry for the continued pause in scribbles ive been feeling not very good at all #idk something just broke in my brain after our last sampling trip idk y bc it wasnt that bad but when i got back #it was just a couple days of my brain being real crazy in terms of thought patterns. it still kinda continues to b like that #but idk i haven't had a session of hysterical crying today so maybe im on the mend. its weird i haven't felt this bad in a really long time #i dont even have the energy to complain about it its just no joy. burned streight thru that. bruned streight thru my desire to draw #i mean i still draw every day but its like shitty i dont have time scribbes bc idk it all feels so fucking pointless. and im terrible at #hiding how i feel abt things so my boss is like: maybe u should take a break this weekend i dont want u to burnout. like. lady we crossed #that bridge way back in March. u r speaking to a ghost. i just. i dont kno if i can stay here until like next july at least if not longer #and it sucks bc i kno someday ill look back and this time in my life will make me real sad bc im laying here choosing to make myself #miserable and i somwhere halfway across the country my mum has tumors growing in her abdomen. and i cant go home for Thanksgiving and idk #how long ill get at Christmas. not bc anyone is telling me i have to stay. my brain just wont let me do things. i just lay here in my #increasingly chaotic apartment not taking the steps to get refunded for travel expenses worrying over deadlines and agonizing over social #interactions. worrying about all the things my brain wont let me do that need to be done and not taking the steps to get better #its stupid and annoying and i know its only going to get worse when i have to start taking measurements in the lab #ive at least been practicing a lot of german tho lmao. someday ill look back like: lol remember when u got super depressed and filled the #void with learning german? literally today my dyslexic read the word albeit as aber and it was v disorienting #idk its just fun and i feel like im at least being productive. so yea idk when ill b able to post scribbles again #but i thought id at least post something while i had the energy i accumulated by taking with a happy Canadian lab group #maybe ill join them in a year idk idk decisions decisions and so many applications the cost of which is trying to dissuade me from #getting a tatt0o :-P ay ay ay live a little! pls i beg u. but no prob not. against the rules #unrelated

[suppenzeit]

me trying to learn a language is just me going "never back down never WHAT" "never give up.." to myself every day

#:V #im so shitgarbage at learning languages its not even funny #anyway i started a little german journal so i can write things down. so i hopefully get this shit drilled into my tiny brain #''but toby youre fluent in english'' yeah learning english was the only way to access more pokemon fanfiction

[setaflow]

I haven't gotten very far in Starfield yet but looking back it's kinda hilarious that I basically went to the character creator and I guess subconsciously decided "I'm gonna make her the exact opposite of my CP2077 character" right down to them having the exact opposite hair color.

#Starfield #I went Cyber Runner; Neo Street Rat - Wanted - Taskmaster for my build so.......yeah #My roommate even called me out saying that I only picked Cyber Runner because it had 'Cyber' in the name which is.....partially true? #Honestly I wanted to play a space rogue/their and that's the best starting build for one #Anyway yeah I'm still deciding on the name but I think it's Ji-Yeon 'Lee' Aster -- Lee being the pseudonym she gives to most everyone #Korean mother German-American father #Her parents both die when she was young so she grew up in Neon scavenging tech equipment to sell for pittance #and eventually grew into a pretty decent hacker who was able to get by on Neon with minor jobs and the occasional corporate freelance gig #When she's 25 she goes in with a few friends on a huge homebrewed hacker job and the whole thing goes to shit. Like absolutely falls apart #In a moment of weakness Lee throws everyone else on her team under the bus and bails-- everyone else gets arrested and thrown in corp priso #So with a big bounty on her head she hops from system to system trying to keep a low profile until she lands the Argos job and plot happens #In terms of comparing her to Riley she's WAY smarter WAY more cynical WAY less athletic and WAY more guiltridden about her life #And while Riley's slower to trust but overall still nice at her core Lee is just a dick. The entire plot is just one big inconvenience #And to her working with Constellation is basically another way for her to hide from her massive bounty #She trusts them but DEFINITELY looks to use them in the beginning as...let's face it basically meat shields #Riley's story is more about learning how to trust people and accept change; #Lee's story is more about the importance of family and learning how to be less selfish #And finally-- Riley has blue hair and Lee has orange-red hair (her hacker alias was 'F1r3br4nd' and she never wanted to change it) #ANYWAY dump time over back to work #Seta Speaks

[ladydragonkiller]

ok in your fanfic you mentioned Marius can’t read, is that canon or fanon or???

Had to ask @rainbowstargazerlilies about this, cause she started using it in her Lyf fic and I just nabbed it from her

Apparently it’s fanon! The idea is that he’s able to read his home planet’s language, but has refused to learn how to read or write any others.

I believe in the Lyf fic it’s mentioned that he also refuses to teach his native language to any of the other mechs (which may play into some plot points later on >:D)

#I genuinely couldnt remember where this idea sprouted #not sure how I conceive of language and how the mechs approach it yet #is there a common universal type language that they use? #that wouldn’t make sense cause most of the places they sing about haven’t developed travel on that scale #and even something like that would change over time #probably on the aurora they’ve developed a mishmash of languages #English style but even more piratey #I imagine with a good chunk of English since that’s what Tim #ts #and presumably Jonny all spoke #but with common phrases from cyber Ian and whatever languages ashes and Ivy and Brian grew up with sprinkled in #raph and marius joined later on #i picture the city as a human colony in the far far future that got out of hand so raph would have a leg up on the English #just to make things easier #and marius had a steep learning curve adjusting from space German to the mechs language #of course I didn’t think about any of this while writing the icarus fic #so it isn’t mentioned at all in there #but it might be discussed at length in the upcoming Ivy/Raphaella sequel #you have started my brain gears a-turning #the mechanisms #the mechs

[honeyrisuke]

im currently active in writers forums and it's quite upsetting how every week or so there's a new discussion that amounts to "should non-native speakers be allowed to write"

because some people out there will straight up start a convo like "if you cant speak or write perfect flawless english you shouldnt write books or fanfiction or participate in any type of creative writing because its grating to read and just wrong", and then someone points out that some people have reading disabilities or aren't native speakers and may just need another correction pass by a reader.

And that first person will bounce back like "yeah but that doesnt change that its bad and grating to read and they should just not write at all/only write in their native language, because its 'destroying the english language'"

and I've never participated in these because I'd rip their heads off. English native speaking monolinguals online sure have some fucking nerve

#this mindset btw extends to interactions online at large #the amount of people who do armchair psychology about specific wordings even though the speaker isnt an english native speaker #i want english speakers to be required to learn a second language #not even so they can speak it but so they realize their immense privilege and start to understand language on a more global scale #also i want them to learn german so i can bully them as hard in my own native language as they bully me in theirs #and trust me german gives you far more soil for bullying #life #rant

[anaalnathrakhs]

Heute ich habe gegessen eine Schokolade der Morgen, Mittagessen war mcdonald’s medium Pommes da mein Lehrer ist gegangen dort und ich und meine Mitschülerin geteilt, und das Abendessen war eingefroren Pommes und vegetarier Nuggets, da ich versuche mein Fleisch Verbrauch reduzieren. Ich zudem habe zwei Brot Stücken gegessen und ein Ice Tea getrinken.

#two birds with one stone: i register what i ate for the sake of mental health and i improve my german skillz #i barely even register as an A1 so feel free to correct the mistakes you see #but i'll show this to my teacher to fix the obvious grammar issues and all #i don't feel like i'm improving a lot using her methods #which are like. throwing us a german paragraph and asking us to pick up the crumbs of meaning we can find #she explains things in german and then never like. translates them. or writes them/spells them out? #which i mean. we are supposed to be speedrunning seven years of classes in two but yknow. i dont UNDERSTAND the mechanic behind the language #so i'm doing some duolingo on the side and now this i guess #what would work for me (i think based on the way i learned english) is blind idiot translation under every sentence #to get the hang of the grammar and vocabulary #cuz i'm shit at categorizing grammar in every language but i'm fairly good at instinctively using it so familiarizing myself is my best bet #but i don't know how to go about finding that except asking someone to prechew it for me #and since my teacher is all ''never even look at google translate or a dictionary or anything just ✨start from the french word✨''... #yeah #broadcasting my misery

[01themagician]

DID talk with my friend about their trip and such... nothing surprising--they cannot change the timeframe of their trip much because there arent many tickets that work with their familys other plans. im glad we talked it through, though--i have some trouble expressing my negative emotions and general concerns, so im proud that i managed to. we agreed to do a game night online on my bday and made some other fun plans for september, so im very glad we had the discussion and reached a compromise 💚

we also had a really nice time today! me, they and our other friend went to some stores; they picked up stuff for their new flat and i grabbed myself a whiteboard (which wasnt even a compulsive purchase!!) and we talked about dnd--also a much needed discussion inside our friend group about a disastrous campaign we have running with some other friends. all in all, a fun day!!

#01 my post #09 personal #and it also RAINED & POURED TODAY WOOHOO a lady from my german class even gave me a lift it was very sweet:..) #ooh and after watching the latest wwdits episode we also started making discord plans for a game night & american psycho..! #the person responsible for my unis Welcome Days havent responded to my email which is worrying #so i think ill write to the international department or whatever its called tomorrow and figure it out. its been like 3 days! #oh my god aahh AND ive downloaded some books for reading whenever AND found an app for learning vocab!!! #what a day wow! i like journaling like this actually. summing up/remembering all my achievements otd makes me feel rly good!

[notorioushiphopcrew]

starting to learn a different language that is so different from my own native language and its so crazy to me thinking how everyone grows up speaking different languages which are just so different not only in what aspects of speaking and writing the language uses/grammar but also how culture is woven into different languages and informs how we think about things.. learning another language really makes me able to imagine "what if this had been my first language..." in actual interesting clarity. this is so boring to read from my words but i feel like my brain is opening up learning new stuff.

#i live in such a monolingual place too #not in the sense people dont speak their languages in public bc they do #but english is the only official language so i dont need anything else to communicate #also i say my brain is opening up i am also Struggling but you know! there is such beauty in it im glad im doing it #really want to go somewhere to actually have to speak to communicate in languages and feel it open up how i feel about them #my thoughts..... #just started learning chinese but ive been learning german for so long #and all the germans ive met are fluent in english and i never needed it to communicate so i get super anxious about doing it Well and Right #then they dont speak to me in it cuz its easier and also i get so nervous i dont even want to try even tho i have more than enough knowled #ge to be understood #weird weird weird

[georgekirrin]

I have a history of bad language learning decisions but I want to make another one lmao

#so like..... my mum started trying to teach me french when i was a toddler and i learned it in school until i was 16 #so i have a pretty good instinct for it still even though i would say im shit at french #and then when i was 9 my sisters friends mum taught me a bunch of spanish #and in high school i was put in latin classes #and then as if three romance languages werent confusing enough i learned romanian on duolingo #the only one i remember with any reliability is french but i still swap in words from any of the other three languages #but yeah anyway this is me saying i want to pick spanish up again to learn song lyrics and see if 9 year old me retained anything #someone stop me #tell me to learn german instead or some shit #i can't do more romance languages