As a German (and a fan), I really enjoyed this video! I can understand that you have problems with grammar, its always difficult to learn a new language, but you did very well tbh
As someone who is fluent in german and english i found this video hilarious. Keep it up and keep learning german! You/re pronounciation will get better. My tip: if you ever get a few weeks off, visit germany. Being surrounded by the language for even a few weeks is going to help so much! (espacially with the pronunciation). Good Luck!
@ lol yeah, try to go to somewhere where the people speak hoch-deutsch (normal, accent-free german). Although this is generally hard to find in Germany, i would suggest Köln or Berlin
Okay i was not expecting this one. I've been a fan of the channel for quite a few years, but i wouldn't have thought that you actually learned my main language for 3 years. Awesome to see and to be honest you're not that far off with most of your pronunciation.
18:22 Freundin can mean Girlfriend, but it can also just mean female friend. It doesn't specify if you're in a relationship or not. It's actually a bit confusing in German in my opinion as a native speaker. There are a few weird situations where you have to specify because there's not really a distinction between a male friend and a boyfriend or a female friend and a girlfriend like in English. It's all just "Freund" or "Freundin".
@@julianfinke7802 yeah, but it's not that simple. "meine Freundin" can also mean "my female friend" and "eine Freundin" can also mean "a girlfriend", it's really dependent on context. Just adding "my" or "a" doesn't always work. Most of the times you can make that distinction, but sometimes it may still be a bit awkward. And also what about speaking about someone else? If you say "seine Freundin" it can again mean "his female friend" or "his girlfriend". It's all context.
@@kkimziiye yes you can. I mean literally it could still mean "a girlfriend/boyfriend of me" but since that's a bit weird to say it would generally mean a female/male friend. As long as you are not having multiple girlfriends/boyfriends and talking about one of them it would just mean friend.
12:06 Duolingo being an owl and jack learning about owls on day 1 means duolingo is more narcissistic than Jack. Also that's crazy it took him 1000 days to realise duolingo is an owl
His German is not remotely good enough to do that though😂he’ll just end up speaking English anyway. Plus it’s a big always going up to a random German fella and ennobling him with his mediocre accent😂
Holy sh*t your good at German! I’m German, so I’m allowed to give you the German Award: 🇩🇪 along with the typical sentence under every English video that has to do something with German: „Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun offizielles Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 🇩🇪“ ❤
@@lentiteda7011Hahahaha wie du so tust, als wärst du deutscher wenn du wirklich Deutscher wärst, würdest du nicht das einfachste deutsche Wort falsch schreiben Was du geschrieben hast: duh Wie es richtig heißt: du Da kommt kein „h“ dahinter Hahahahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂
The fact that I’m a fluent German speaker and listening to this is so weird! Bravo Jack, you did well! ❤ - I’m happy to finally see an English-speaking TH-camr speaking at least a little bit of a foreign language - in this case German! 😂
Your guess "Gute Besserung" for "Take care" was quite good, considering "take care" is translated as "pass auf dich auf" and not "alles Gute," which translates to "all the best" in English. 😄 Keep it uuuup! 🇩🇪🙌
@@leporid257Alles Gute zum Abschied is actually something you would say in formal Setting Like a work realated meeting or an interview. Or in general when it's Not sure, when you See someone ever again in your life or it takes a Long time until you See someone again.
I also do German on Duolingo and have a streak of just over 1000 days but I also learn German outside of Duolingo so I'm much further on in the course. I found this really interesting to see how much you were able to learn (vocab/grammar) just through using Duolingo. And don't worry about finding some things like gender of nouns difficult, German can be a difficult language!
Was mich als Deutschen ein bisschen triggert, ist, dass diese Stimme Deutsch oft auf eine sehr seltsame und emotionslose Art ausspricht, was natürlich nicht perfekt zum Lernen ist, aber großen Respek! (Ich hoffe du konntest das lesen ohne auf übersezen zu drücken)
Congrats Jack. my streak is at 1800+ days currently (i was very happy when it turned to "5 years+" in the leaderboards recently), but i switched languages a lot, i've been learning mainly spanish, but also a bit of italian, vietnamese, russian and even one lesson danish and greek, so yeah, keeping motivation high in just one language is quite hard, i can relate. if i just want to keep my streak going i cheat with some easy english lesson. i'm german btw :D
12:36 exactly so here are my tips as fellow german: pronounce "Z" like a "ts", a "Ö" like a "O" but if you'd slightly vomit while saying it, "ch" similar to a "sh" in english but softer and simply lower the tip of your tongue, an "e" is often pronouced like you (with your northern english dialect) pronounce the "ai" in Spain
18:20 My friend (female) and my girlfriend actually both mean "Meine Freundin" in german, we don´t really have a way to distinguish between the too, same thing with my friend (male) and my boyfriend ="Mein Freund". Some adjectives i would say would make distinguishing easier, for example "Meine gute Freundin", my good friend, would almost never be said with the meaning My girlfriend. Hope that helps!
I am a German native speaker and have been learning Russian and relearning French for almost a 1000 day on Duolingo. And it's really helpful to see how far you have come. It's always difficult to have a feeling for how far I have come, but seeing your German progress as a native speaker, I can now imagine that Russian and French native speakers might view my progress similarly positive as I see yours. I always worry about my mistakes and pronunciation, but when I see your mistakes I don't mind them and seeing your progress is more important than the mistakes. Maybe I can learn to have the same attitude towards myself. To really take the step into being able to understand and speak in the world, Duolingo is definitely not enough. I think it's great as a first stepping stone to learn basics and for revision. But to actually learn a language one has to use it more throughout the day. For speaking/forming sentences I try to think and speak (when I am alone) to myself in Russian or French and it helps me to become more comfortable. When I don't know a word I look it up, so I also learn more of the words that I actually need to express myself. For understanding I like to listen to simple Russian/French media. For French Duolingo has a podcast and that helped me to get more comfortable with understanding. But also TH-cam videos aimed at kids or Russian/French music and kids books help a lot at the beginning. And then one can move to more complex things like books and TH-cam contant aimed at an adult audience. One thing I really don't like about Duolingo is that it doesn't always teach common ways to say something. I have been corrected by native speakers because something I said was an old or very uncommon way to say something. And now seeing the German course, I feel the same. Some sentences sound a bit off/oncommen. But that would correct itself if one also starts to consume other German media, speak with German speakers etc. Over all this video strengthens my opinion that Duolingo is great to start getting into a language. But one has to "graduate" to other things to actually learn the language!
I don't blame you on the timed wordpair maching lessons. I'm a native German speaker and am fluent in English, and I just tried the one on the first unit in the English course (Didn't want to start a German course just for testing. Had the English one already) and I didn't even get one star on the first try. It's basically almost impossible to get 3 stars without buying the time boosts. I started on duolingo with the english (german) course years ago but pretty much never did it. I recently just skipped everything and completed it because why not. I now do the Japanese (English) course and the "only doing 2 minutes every day after the motivation dies down" is really relatable. I'm just doing the kanji practice because it's quick and I don't necessarily need sound so I can do it wherever, just to keep my 564 day streak going.
I have to say I really respect that youre trying to learn german cause most people either basically quit right away or dont start at all because it has a pretty bad reputation for being really hard. As a german myself I have to say youre doing really good. Ive got just two small tips for you maybe try to pronounce the Z more like you would a ts so like in the word its in english also if you ever have the chance to talk to a native german speaker use that as an opportunity to talk german to them cause thats the way you actually learn a language and start understand it really well also you get more comfortable speaking it fluently. Now thats it from me I really enjoy watching your videos keep up the good work
I'm learning italian in Duolingo, and on about day 300 it taught me the word "E-Mail" 💀 Also I am a German speaker, and you are pronouncing it perfectly according to what Duolingo is teaching you. For some reason it seems like Duolingo chose one specific German accent, and turned it up to 11. While it is true that many germans can't really pronounce "ch", Duolingo turns it up to 11 and just straight up turns it into a "sch". Many germans that can't really pronounce the "ch" say it as kind of a mix between "ch" and "sch". But like I said for some reason Duolingo just straight up turns it into a "sch".
You did a very good job! It's usually the grammar that seems to be hard when building sentences. (Even native german speakers struggle with it and even though I think I'm quite fluent in english, I still struggle with proper grammar) By the way, some words are impossible to know without proper context. Freundin can literally mean both female friend and girlfriend. There is no way to differentiate them properly without knowing the relationship. I sometimes don't even know how to convey it's a friend not girlfriend, when talking about a female friend with someone who doesn't know me. German is confusing even for native speakers. Just the word Leiter can mean multiple different things. Ladder, Leader and Cable. Technically all of them lead something. (Leader leads up or down, cable "leads" electricity, Leader leads my lazy bum).
You inspired me to start learning, I'm at day 580 right now! I've been learning Swedish and I 100% agree with your critique of learning a lack of conversational words. All I can do is order food from a restaurant and point out some buildings. I don't even know how to count to ten lol.
It's true that Duolingo does lack some things early on - like numbers for some languages, and days of the week for others. However, many people underestimate the sheet quantity of vocabulary needed to obtain an A1 level in a language. This is the first 3 sections of any Duolingo course so by the time you finish those 3 sections you will have learned all the basic useful language. I've nearly finished section 5 in french and I really feel like Duolingo has taught me to express any everyday concept, even if I have to use other words and clunky expressions to get there. It is an amazing app! I'm on day 649 now but I do quite a lot each day and did about a year before that without a constant streak.
As a German I love the fact you learn German. Your understanding is very good and the pronunciation is good enough for anyone to understand you perfectly. Your ability to make up sentences isn't that good. I know how it feels since I learn Italian, can speak some sentences and can read, but I have trouble making up sentences I didn't already learn.
Congratulations on this achievement Jack! It's nice to hear you've been also learning German on Duolingo, and it was like a course revision for me, liked to see familiar pictures & sounds. I'll hit 1 year streak after a few days.
1:41 Wow I'm am honestly impressed by your german!! Your pronunciation is really on point! As an austrian I am really proud :D! Glad you had fun learning german👍🏻 Edit: Btw Apfelschorle is something you'd only say in germany (I don't know about switzerland tho). In austria we just call it Apfelsaft (applejuice).
I have personally been learning with this app for about 180 days now. The thing you mentioned about irl convos is highly dependent on yourself. For example I try to write very simple essays about my day with the words I have learned. Or I sometimes try to say simple things that happen to me in the moment in German it really helps normalize sentence organization from your pov. Also another thing I noticed was your struggle with pronunciations. Generally listening to every day German conversations (A1) level is a nice way to stimulate a crucial environmental factor! But overall nice progress. I‘m at unit 16 of section 2 myself :))
I've done both French and German on Duolingo (also did French for GCSE) and it was definitely hard when I first started seeing masculine, feminine and plural forms of many phrases which simply doesn't exist in English
As a german, you’re doing a great job, the pronunciation is pretty good! having problems with grammar is normal, adapting to new grammar in a new language is always difficult, keep it up!
So far, I have been learning Japanese with Duolingo (and other sources) for 3 years, but only last year did it become a huge thing in my life, my current streak is 574 (45-60 mins per day ALWAYS). Jack’s 1,000 day streak is an incredible feat, but the true determiner of language proficiency is motivation. Jack clearly ran out of motivation, but had a great run nevertheless.
As a native Japanese speaker (or whatever you all call it), you just lost days of time. Learning Japanese with Duolingo is one of the worst mistakes ever. It is not accurate.
This video poped up on my front page and as a duolingo 3000+ streak and german native, it's funny to see someone else learning. I totally agree with you about the conversation starting part. It's very hart to get the sentences and words in my mind without reading it but I got some kind of feeling for the language. That's nice too
12:31 [Deutsch] Nein, interessanterweise nicht. Das Einzige das ich bisher hören kann, das dich von einem Muttersprachler unterscheiden könnte, ist dein Akzent (Er ist etwas... staubig/trocken und stolpernd, würde ich sagen?),das soll jedoch keine Kritik sein. Deine Aussprache ist in Ordnung und dein Deutsch ist großartig/gut. Ich bin sehr froh dass du, trotz seines Rufes, versuchst deutsch zu lernen und ich entschuldige mich vielmals für die grammatikalische unregelmäßigkeit der Artikel. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland. [English] No, interestingly enough, that isn't the case. The only thing I can hear so far distinguishing you from a native speaker, is your accent (it is a bit ... dry and tumbling, I guess?), but this isn't supposed to be a criticism. Your pronunciation is fine and your overall german is great. I am very happy that you try learning German despite its reputation and I am terribly sorry for the grammatical inconsistentcy of articles. Best wishes from Germany.
20:36 I can really relate with this, because I live in Slovakia, but I am Hungarian, so I'v been learning Slovakian since I was a little kid. Slovakian also has these Feminine Masculine and neutral things, and it makes NO SENSE! I mean only Masuline has the option to write (only write, if u are speaking its the same) someone is living or not. For example you have to write Man and Man (dead) differently. If you accidentaly put an i instead of a y, congrats he is now dead, you killed him, Oh and the same thing applies for the feminine and Neutral, but its not about living or not, Its about plural or not, so its really fricking easy to mess it up. And there are some words that are "exeptions" FOR NO REASON, for these words some rules of grammar simply DONT APPLY. Sorry I just have enough of this... Please send help.
As someone who understands some German this was pretty fun, especially hearing Jack's pronunciation 😄 I'm not German or anything, but in Norway you have to learn either German, Spanish or French in school so.....
Eine Sprache zu lernen, die verstehen zu können, aber nicht selbstständig sprechen zu können, ist wirklich so ein Ding, so geht es mir mit Englisch. Was da helfen kann ist die Videos in der Ausgewählten Sprache anzusehen und einfach immer wieder anzuhalten und Sätze nach oder mit sprechen.
Respekt, ich habe in letzter Zeit versucht Spanisch zu lernen, aber nach irgendwie 20 Tagen keine lust mehr gehabt... Seitdem gehen meine Noten nach unten. Aber ich hoffe du hast weiter spaß beim erlernen der Deutschen Sprache.
It’s due to the erosion of case endings in end of the Old English period. A decent bit of languages do not have noun classes, actually, such as Sino-Tibetan languages, Japonic languages, Koreanic languages, Bengali (technically older words do but people generally use the masculine as the gender neutral), Tagalog and other Philippines languages (excluding Spanish loans), Persian, Armenian, Finnish (and other Uralic languages), Turko-Monglic languages (Turkish, Mongolian, Sakha, Uyghur, Qazaq, &c), Georgian, Swahili, and many many others. Grammatical gender is quite common but also not the majority.
I’m at 608 days on Duolingo German. I wanted to quit at 500 but physically couldn’t. Just like you I’m doing the bare minimum now and maybe waiting till 1000 days to quit
Ive been doing German for two years or so and I started with Duolingo also. I do like movies other apps and went to Berlin earlier this year, too. Hopefully you're able to go to Germany and try some out! It is a bit overwhelming at first but feels really good to be able to order at a cafe and restaurant and stuff!
I admire people who put the time and effort into learning languages, thumbs up. I know German is not an easy language to learn but frankly I expected a little more after 3 years. I think a few weeks of training with your pronunciation with a native German speaker would work wonders if you don't want to be immediately recognized as a foreigner in Germany.
@@tecnicoyt Yes but Pizza is a word that is exactly the same in english. And d, ie, k, s and t is also pronounced exactly the same in english. There is nothing that is hard for an english speaker to pronounce here. Lets hear him say ä ö and ü properly...
Ich finde es sehr toll wie gut du deutsch sprechen kannst mach weiter so ich Mag deine Videos sehr ein Jack sucks at German kanal wäre vielleicht was tolles danke für deine Videos
If I consider how much French I knew after learning it at school for four years for about 150 minutes a week, your level of German is amazing for the time per day you put into it. You could easily get along in Germany and the grammatical mistakes are of little importance. Well done!!
17:34 So... Adding the -in at the end of a profession or in general of some words, called "gendering" is somewhat controversial. You basically always use the -in if talking about one singular female person, and also -innen (the plural version of -in) if talking about a group of females. But if talking about a mixed group, some people hang on the the old standard of the generic masculinum, just ditching the -innen in the plural, while the more progressive approach is to say the plural in masculine and feminine form. Example: My group of roommates, some of which are female and some are male: "Meine Mitbewohnerinnen und Mitbewohner" (My rommates (female) and roommates (male)). This concept also sometimes exists in english, think of "Actor" and "Actress"
The gendering thing is actually not just for professions but nearly all nouns (and adjectives) referring to a person that can be either gender. You could for example also have „der*die Leser*in“ („the reader“), „der*die Anfänger*in“ („the beginner“) etc. (This * system is one attempt at making the German language more gender inclusive, and here also a good way of showing examples) German also, when it comes to plurals as well as singulars that may refer to a person of any gender uses something called „generisches Maskulinum“. So for example when you talk about „ein Lehrer“ it might be a man, but depending on the context it might also be a person of unspecified gender. „Die Lehrer“, 90% of the time are not just men even though the maskulinum is used. But the fact that the words for men are the same as the words for men and also potentially women (and non binary people) does biase people in a certain way, and is just generally not super inclusive, which is where the „Gendersternchen“ (*) comes from as an alternative way to refer to people in a less biased way. This is what bothers me about Duolingo. It seems like it teaches people stuff without ever explaining the why or how. I find it baffling that Duolingo has apparently over 999 days not managed to transmit the concept of grammatical gender efficiently (which is not your fault, for the record). I feel like in order to learn and speak a language well, you either need develop „Sprachgefühl“ („language intuition“) or be provided with some rules. And Duolingo seems to help with neither. This is not to say that your Duolingo streak isn‘t impressive, but I‘d say that if you want to keep learning German I‘d recommend taking a look at something that actually explains what is going on with things like grammatical gender etc. so that you can understand why you are doing certain things, and then maybe also immersing yourself in the language by reading in German and watching German media and maybe also trying to use the things that you learned by talking to people. I think Duolingo is a great way to start learning a language, but it has served its purpose now and I don‘t know if you‘re going to get much more out of the App.
as a german i really enjoyed this video and not many youtubers show this kind of content and i like this kind of content (not that you need to do this content everyday i just like this content)
I would advise you to do some kind of project or some videos in germany, where you have to speak with them in german, or if thats not your cup of tea, I would highly recommend something like chat gpt it is actually very good I have never had a problem with using it with german or english, atleast no one I could casually identify, besides very minor things in writing. Its surprising how just months ago it struggled with simple math 2+5=7 or something like that and now it can speak in weird german accents :D.
I'm Danish, and Danish learners are often confused by the difference between en/et (a/an) because unlike in English, there is literally no consistent rule to know which one to use. It's the same thing in German, except you have 3 options and like 10 different ways it can affect the rest of the sentence. In Danish it only affects the ending of the noun in the definite forms, that's it. I've had German lessons for a combined 7 years or so. I can pronounce any German word with 99% success, understand written language fairly well, order in restaurants with few problems and other normal things. But I could never simply write just 3 sentences without a grammatical error.
As a native German I gotta say: For 1000 days of practicing every day with Duolingo, you are oding great! Even me as a native German still struggle with some grammar and pronounciation :D However, in Germany most of the teenageers and young adults you see can speak almost or even completely fluent english. The only ones who mostly cant speak fluent english are the eldery and the children ^^
Good job Jack! :D I'm learning Danish as a German and I'm on a 489 day streak now :) Und außerdem: Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland!
yeah we do actually use all those gendered words in german. pretty much every noun that describes a person has a female and male variation. sadly, it's still quite common to only use the male version when addressing everyone, which obviously excludes non-male people. that's why a lot of people have been trying to come up with a solution for that problem and instead of using both words like "Lehrerinnen und Lehrer" they combine that to "Lehrer*innen". there's been political discussions about this for a while as some people say it looks ugly and destroys the flow of the language. in my state, it's even forbidden to use it in school/university. ridiculous in my opinion, it's just an attempt to make our language more inclusive
I did spanish on duo. I went into town and someone was asking if anyone spoke Spanish. I offered to try. Everything he said was in a duo lesson and the answers I needed to give were also in the duo lesson. It was quite a complex conversation. I was so proud! Thanks duo. Hablo español ahora!
As a German (and a fan), I really enjoyed this video! I can understand that you have problems with grammar, its always difficult to learn a new language, but you did very well tbh
Moin wie geht's :)
Moin :)
德语是不是很难，很难，很难
Wobei deutsche Grammatik auch anders als die Grammatik vieler anderer Sprachen ist
Moin
As a German it’s nice to see that a TH-camr I like can speek a little bit german
Genau!
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@@iwasneverjoebiden lmao youtubes translated that to "and" XD
Jack has been killing it with keeping his promises lately.
LOL
@@AbdAlHakamJunaid what's so funny?
@@No1No1No1 the bird kill ig
@@GigaChadMain69420 what's that
Inspiring me to do some pushups, clean my office and learn a new language
As someone who is fluent in german and english i found this video hilarious. Keep it up and keep learning german! You/re pronounciation will get better. My tip: if you ever get a few weeks off, visit germany. Being surrounded by the language for even a few weeks is going to help so much! (espacially with the pronunciation). Good Luck!
Dont go to München
@ lol yeah, try to go to somewhere where the people speak hoch-deutsch (normal, accent-free german). Although this is generally hard to find in Germany, i would suggest Köln or Berlin
@@Leichtkettenpanzeras a Austrian it's hilarious that you seem to think Munich has too much dialect. I feel like everyone speeks Hochdeutsch there :)
@@Living_for_MTBhannover
Okay i was not expecting this one. I've been a fan of the channel for quite a few years, but i wouldn't have thought that you actually learned my main language for 3 years. Awesome to see and to be honest you're not that far off with most of your pronunciation.
18:22 Freundin can mean Girlfriend, but it can also just mean female friend. It doesn't specify if you're in a relationship or not.
It's actually a bit confusing in German in my opinion as a native speaker. There are a few weird situations where you have to specify because there's not really a distinction between a male friend and a boyfriend or a female friend and a girlfriend like in English. It's all just "Freund" or "Freundin".
you say meine freundin (girlfriend) , eine freundin (female friend) one letter makes a big difference
@@julianfinke7802 yeah, but it's not that simple. "meine Freundin" can also mean "my female friend" and "eine Freundin" can also mean "a girlfriend", it's really dependent on context. Just adding "my" or "a" doesn't always work. Most of the times you can make that distinction, but sometimes it may still be a bit awkward. And also what about speaking about someone else? If you say "seine Freundin" it can again mean "his female friend" or "his girlfriend". It's all context.
you can say "eine Freundin/ein Freund von mir" to make it clear that its not a girl/boyfriend, right? i'm still learning german
@@kkimziiye yes you can. I mean literally it could still mean "a girlfriend/boyfriend of me" but since that's a bit weird to say it would generally mean a female/male friend. As long as you are not having multiple girlfriends/boyfriends and talking about one of them it would just mean friend.
@wasikancb thanks sooo much for the quick reply!!
12:06 Duolingo being an owl and jack learning about owls on day 1 means duolingo is more narcissistic than Jack. Also that's crazy it took him 1000 days to realise duolingo is an owl
duo is the owl
I didnt want to like this comment because it has 100 likes
@@BastianDavis-p2r and what's wrong with that?
is jack narcissitic?
Die Eule ist sehr gut und ich habe keine Waffe auf meinen Kopf spitzen
Jack needs to make a video where he travels to Germany and tries to speak the language
YEAAA
FR
YES!
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
His German is not remotely good enough to do that though😂he’ll just end up speaking English anyway. Plus it’s a big always going up to a random German fella and ennobling him with his mediocre accent😂
As a German, I Can say you: keep it up! Very, very good.
Der Bruder hat halt echt eine gute Aussprache
ja
Ehrlich so
Sogar hier gbt es deutsche Kartoffeln
Geht so hin finde ich, andererseits is er hat auch‘n Insulaner.
Deutsche Kartoffeln wird es überall geben
Holy sh*t your good at German! I’m German, so I’m allowed to give you the German Award: 🇩🇪 along with the typical sentence under every English video that has to do something with German: „Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun offizielles Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 🇩🇪“ ❤
"Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" 💀 spaaaaß. Ich bin gegen Nationalsozialismus 😅
Die Aussprache ist NICHT DAS GELBE VOM EI aber ich verstehe ihn
@ ich bin Deutscher, duh 🙄
@@lentiteda7011Hahahaha wie du so tust, als wärst du deutscher wenn du wirklich Deutscher wärst, würdest du nicht das einfachste deutsche Wort falsch schreiben
Was du geschrieben hast: duh
Wie es richtig heißt: du
Da kommt kein „h“ dahinter
Hahahahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂
@@LOL_IPOP_Fduh ist Jugendsprache tu nicht so
The fact that I’m a fluent German speaker and listening to this is so weird! Bravo Jack, you did well! ❤ - I’m happy to finally see an English-speaking TH-camr speaking at least a little bit of a foreign language - in this case German! 😂
same brother
Nöö ironischerweise sind deutsche immer die größten Fans von „German Content“ 😂
Ich spreche auch Deutsch, Bruder
Yeah me to
Ja
Your guess "Gute Besserung" for "Take care" was quite good, considering "take care" is translated as "pass auf dich auf" and not "alles Gute," which translates to "all the best" in English. 😄 Keep it uuuup! 🇩🇪🙌
i think they (badly) tried to translate a random addition to bye. however, i have no idea, who even says Alles Gute for ... Abschied.
@@leporid257Alles Gute zum Abschied is actually something you would say in formal Setting Like a work realated meeting or an interview. Or in general when it's Not sure, when you See someone ever again in your life or it takes a Long time until you See someone again.
I also do German on Duolingo and have a streak of just over 1000 days but I also learn German outside of Duolingo so I'm much further on in the course.
I found this really interesting to see how much you were able to learn (vocab/grammar) just through using Duolingo. And don't worry about finding some things like gender of nouns difficult, German can be a difficult language!
I‘m happy it is my first language because english was easy to learn and I already know german
Not even native German do somethimes
Wie geht es dir so? Lernst du immer noch?
Ja Deutsch ist und bleibt eine schwere Sprache besonders die Pronomen und vieles mehr haha xD
Hab deutsch für 9-10 Jahre gesprochen und bin immer noch scheiße wenn es um Grammatik und Artikeln geht. Also haste recht:,)
Was mich als Deutschen ein bisschen triggert, ist, dass diese Stimme Deutsch oft auf eine sehr seltsame und emotionslose Art ausspricht, was natürlich nicht perfekt zum Lernen ist, aber großen Respek! (Ich hoffe du konntest das lesen ohne auf übersezen zu drücken)
Ist so und endlich ein Deutscher hier 😂
Haha, i needed to use translate to read this as an english man!
Die Betonung ist teilweise sehr ungünstig.
Congrats Jack. my streak is at 1800+ days currently (i was very happy when it turned to "5 years+" in the leaderboards recently), but i switched languages a lot, i've been learning mainly spanish, but also a bit of italian, vietnamese, russian and even one lesson danish and greek, so yeah, keeping motivation high in just one language is quite hard, i can relate. if i just want to keep my streak going i cheat with some easy english lesson. i'm german btw :D
As a german myself this is very interesting to see! I didnt know Jack could speak german so well! This is very impressive!
It's been a pleasure of hearing Jack speaking german in the reddit videos thrice a year. ❤
fr 😂
FR @@iglassica
r/accidentalroasts
12:36 exactly so here are my tips as fellow german: pronounce "Z" like a "ts", a "Ö" like a "O" but if you'd slightly vomit while saying it, "ch" similar to a "sh" in english but softer and simply lower the tip of your tongue, an "e" is often pronouced like you (with your northern english dialect) pronounce the "ai" in Spain
"ch" sound is closer to the first consonant of "hue" - it's like a palatal fricative produced half way back in the mouth
@@OrincabyStimmt
@@Orincaby But it’s a velar fricative after a, o, or u, is that correct?
@@cool_guy87 ah yes cause nacht is pronounced like so
Little late bud
18:20 My friend (female) and my girlfriend actually both mean "Meine Freundin" in german, we don´t really have a way to distinguish between the too, same thing with my friend (male) and my boyfriend ="Mein Freund". Some adjectives i would say would make distinguishing easier, for example "Meine gute Freundin", my good friend, would almost never be said with the meaning My girlfriend. Hope that helps!
I am a German native speaker and have been learning Russian and relearning French for almost a 1000 day on Duolingo. And it's really helpful to see how far you have come. It's always difficult to have a feeling for how far I have come, but seeing your German progress as a native speaker, I can now imagine that Russian and French native speakers might view my progress similarly positive as I see yours.
I always worry about my mistakes and pronunciation, but when I see your mistakes I don't mind them and seeing your progress is more important than the mistakes. Maybe I can learn to have the same attitude towards myself.
To really take the step into being able to understand and speak in the world, Duolingo is definitely not enough. I think it's great as a first stepping stone to learn basics and for revision. But to actually learn a language one has to use it more throughout the day. For speaking/forming sentences I try to think and speak (when I am alone) to myself in Russian or French and it helps me to become more comfortable. When I don't know a word I look it up, so I also learn more of the words that I actually need to express myself. For understanding I like to listen to simple Russian/French media. For French Duolingo has a podcast and that helped me to get more comfortable with understanding. But also TH-cam videos aimed at kids or Russian/French music and kids books help a lot at the beginning. And then one can move to more complex things like books and TH-cam contant aimed at an adult audience.
One thing I really don't like about Duolingo is that it doesn't always teach common ways to say something. I have been corrected by native speakers because something I said was an old or very uncommon way to say something. And now seeing the German course, I feel the same. Some sentences sound a bit off/oncommen. But that would correct itself if one also starts to consume other German media, speak with German speakers etc.
Over all this video strengthens my opinion that Duolingo is great to start getting into a language. But one has to "graduate" to other things to actually learn the language!
I don't blame you on the timed wordpair maching lessons. I'm a native German speaker and am fluent in English, and I just tried the one on the first unit in the English course (Didn't want to start a German course just for testing. Had the English one already) and I didn't even get one star on the first try. It's basically almost impossible to get 3 stars without buying the time boosts.
I started on duolingo with the english (german) course years ago but pretty much never did it. I recently just skipped everything and completed it because why not. I now do the Japanese (English) course and the "only doing 2 minutes every day after the motivation dies down" is really relatable. I'm just doing the kanji practice because it's quick and I don't necessarily need sound so I can do it wherever, just to keep my 564 day streak going.
I have to say I really respect that youre trying to learn german cause most people either basically quit right away or dont start at all because it has a pretty bad reputation for being really hard. As a german myself I have to say youre doing really good. Ive got just two small tips for you maybe try to pronounce the Z more like you would a ts so like in the word its in english also if you ever have the chance to talk to a native german speaker use that as an opportunity to talk german to them cause thats the way you actually learn a language and start understand it really well also you get more comfortable speaking it fluently. Now thats it from me I really enjoy watching your videos keep up the good work
I'm learning italian in Duolingo, and on about day 300 it taught me the word "E-Mail" 💀
Also I am a German speaker, and you are pronouncing it perfectly according to what Duolingo is teaching you. For some reason it seems like Duolingo chose one specific German accent, and turned it up to 11. While it is true that many germans can't really pronounce "ch", Duolingo turns it up to 11 and just straight up turns it into a "sch". Many germans that can't really pronounce the "ch" say it as kind of a mix between "ch" and "sch". But like I said for some reason Duolingo just straight up turns it into a "sch".
Aber ich finde schon, dass Jack das „Ch“ ziemlich gut ausgesprochen hat.
Ich lerne auch Italianisch
ITALIAN BROTHER
Most Germans can pronounce the ch tho just a lot of the Turkish-German struggle with it😅 but those are just bilingual problems
You did a very good job! It's usually the grammar that seems to be hard when building sentences. (Even native german speakers struggle with it and even though I think I'm quite fluent in english, I still struggle with proper grammar)
By the way, some words are impossible to know without proper context. Freundin can literally mean both female friend and girlfriend. There is no way to differentiate them properly without knowing the relationship. I sometimes don't even know how to convey it's a friend not girlfriend, when talking about a female friend with someone who doesn't know me.
German is confusing even for native speakers. Just the word Leiter can mean multiple different things. Ladder, Leader and Cable.
Technically all of them lead something. (Leader leads up or down, cable "leads" electricity, Leader leads my lazy bum).
The pronunciations aren’t even that bad most of the time, es könnte schlimmer sein! Honestly your level of English from Duolingo is pretty impressive.
You inspired me to start learning, I'm at day 580 right now! I've been learning Swedish and I 100% agree with your critique of learning a lack of conversational words. All I can do is order food from a restaurant and point out some buildings. I don't even know how to count to ten lol.
I have been learning german for 35 days and I am at section 2 unit 23
@@RampagedDamagewhat
@@RampagedDamage weiter so mein freund
@@RampagedDamagewhat the hell I’m unit two after 190 days
It's true that Duolingo does lack some things early on - like numbers for some languages, and days of the week for others. However, many people underestimate the sheet quantity of vocabulary needed to obtain an A1 level in a language. This is the first 3 sections of any Duolingo course so by the time you finish those 3 sections you will have learned all the basic useful language.
I've nearly finished section 5 in french and I really feel like Duolingo has taught me to express any everyday concept, even if I have to use other words and clunky expressions to get there. It is an amazing app!
I'm on day 649 now but I do quite a lot each day and did about a year before that without a constant streak.
As a German I love the fact you learn German. Your understanding is very good and the pronunciation is good enough for anyone to understand you perfectly. Your ability to make up sentences isn't that good. I know how it feels since I learn Italian, can speak some sentences and can read, but I have trouble making up sentences I didn't already learn.
Congratulations on this achievement Jack!
It's nice to hear you've been also learning German on Duolingo, and it was like a course revision for me, liked to see familiar pictures & sounds. I'll hit 1 year streak after a few days.
1:41 Wow I'm am honestly impressed by your german!! Your pronunciation is really on point! As an austrian I am really proud :D! Glad you had fun learning german👍🏻
Edit: Btw Apfelschorle is something you'd only say in germany (I don't know about switzerland tho). In austria we just call it Apfelsaft (applejuice).
I have personally been learning with this app for about 180 days now. The thing you mentioned about irl convos is highly dependent on yourself. For example I try to write very simple essays about my day with the words I have learned. Or I sometimes try to say simple things that happen to me in the moment in German it really helps normalize sentence organization from your pov.
Also another thing I noticed was your struggle with pronunciations. Generally listening to every day German conversations (A1) level is a nice way to stimulate a crucial environmental factor!
But overall nice progress. I‘m at unit 16 of section 2 myself :))
It’s crazy figuring out that Duolingo’s an owl after 1000 days 12:05
Owls are actually pretty stupid, just like the way Duolingo teaches languages.
i dont think it was that he is an owl, but that thats why he was taught the word owl on day 1
@ ik
I've done both French and German on Duolingo (also did French for GCSE) and it was definitely hard when I first started seeing masculine, feminine and plural forms of many phrases which simply doesn't exist in English
HEY IGCSE1 rn.. I have my french listening tmr. Not very exited
1:51 IT'S SPARKLING APPLE JUICE
was looking for this comment 😂
😂😂
As a german, you’re doing a great job, the pronunciation is pretty good! having problems with grammar is normal, adapting to new grammar in a new language is always difficult, keep it up!
Cool das du es durchgezogen hast
Duolingo has given you your family back 💀
Lol
They immediately took them back once his 1000 day streak stopped
SKULL EMOJI
To be fair we haven't seen Kai in quite some time
As someone who has been living in germany and speaking german for over 8 years I still regularly mix up my der, die and das
So far, I have been learning Japanese with Duolingo (and other sources) for 3 years, but only last year did it become a huge thing in my life, my current streak is 574 (45-60 mins per day ALWAYS). Jack’s 1,000 day streak is an incredible feat, but the true determiner of language proficiency is motivation. Jack clearly ran out of motivation, but had a great run nevertheless.
As a native Japanese speaker (or whatever you all call it), you just lost days of time. Learning Japanese with Duolingo is one of the worst mistakes ever. It is not accurate.
Correction; It really is not accurate
If you're just doing japanese lessons through Duolingo, then ye the above comment is right unfortunately
こんにちは 👋😃
This video poped up on my front page and as a duolingo 3000+ streak and german native, it's funny to see someone else learning. I totally agree with you about the conversation starting part. It's very hart to get the sentences and words in my mind without reading it but I got some kind of feeling for the language. That's nice too
12:31
[Deutsch]
Nein, interessanterweise nicht. Das Einzige das ich bisher hören kann, das dich von einem Muttersprachler unterscheiden könnte, ist dein Akzent (Er ist etwas... staubig/trocken und stolpernd, würde ich sagen?),das soll jedoch keine Kritik sein. Deine Aussprache ist in Ordnung und dein Deutsch ist großartig/gut. Ich bin sehr froh dass du, trotz seines Rufes, versuchst deutsch zu lernen und ich entschuldige mich vielmals für die grammatikalische unregelmäßigkeit der Artikel. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland.
[English]
No, interestingly enough, that isn't the case. The only thing I can hear so far distinguishing you from a native speaker, is your accent (it is a bit ... dry and tumbling, I guess?), but this isn't supposed to be a criticism. Your pronunciation is fine and your overall german is great. I am very happy that you try learning German despite its reputation and I am terribly sorry for the grammatical inconsistentcy of articles. Best wishes from Germany.
20:36 I can really relate with this, because I live in Slovakia, but I am Hungarian, so I'v been learning Slovakian since I was a little kid. Slovakian also has these Feminine Masculine and neutral things, and it makes NO SENSE! I mean only Masuline has the option to write (only write, if u are speaking its the same) someone is living or not. For example you have to write Man and Man (dead) differently. If you accidentaly put an i instead of a y, congrats he is now dead, you killed him, Oh and the same thing applies for the feminine and Neutral, but its not about living or not, Its about plural or not, so its really fricking easy to mess it up. And there are some words that are "exeptions" FOR NO REASON, for these words some rules of grammar simply DONT APPLY. Sorry I just have enough of this... Please send help.
i used to be fluent in slovak as a kid, forgot it all and are still trying to relearn it. even though i used to be fluent, god it’s hard!!
loving this new style of video ❤❤ keep experimenting jack! 🎉🎉
be careful if you quit, that green bird is probably gunna go mad.
EDIT: IK ITS A BLOODY OWL MB 😭🙏
Edit 2: i do not deserve these likes..
I am commenting this while held hostage in duos basement. I get 3 minutes of screen time a day please send help I've been here for the last 287 days
@@b3rryp4wzgot it
The bird is still after me and it's been like 2 years
@ lol
@@b3rryp4wzOh hey Jerry! Didn’t expect you to be here… I’m Thomas from the basement
Glückwunsch Jack! When can we expect a german(y) travel vlog of you? 🥺
Diese Kommentarsektion ist jetzt Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Jack hat in letzter Zeit viele Versprechen gehalten, ich mache mir Sorgen
As someone who understands some German this was pretty fun, especially hearing Jack's pronunciation 😄
I'm not German or anything, but in Norway you have to learn either German, Spanish or French in school so.....
Oh my school in south africa has a similar thing. You have to learn English and then one of the 11 official languages lol
now we need a vlog of jack going to germany and testing his language skills..
1:22 As A Garman This Ist Der Worst
Ich hätte es besser nicht formulieren können :)
Hallo
@@Codeqs Hallo
@ was geht
@@Codeqs ok
Eine Sprache zu lernen, die verstehen zu können, aber nicht selbstständig sprechen zu können, ist wirklich so ein Ding, so geht es mir mit Englisch.
Was da helfen kann ist die Videos in der Ausgewählten Sprache anzusehen und einfach immer wieder anzuhalten und Sätze nach oder mit sprechen.
Already a good video 0:08
HE’S GOT THEM GLASSES BACK ON!!!
Yeah he doesn't see well without them..
Been waiting for this vid !!
Respekt, ich habe in letzter Zeit versucht Spanisch zu lernen, aber nach irgendwie 20 Tagen keine lust mehr gehabt... Seitdem gehen meine Noten nach unten. Aber ich hoffe du hast weiter spaß beim erlernen der Deutschen Sprache.
Its the little funny o I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE THIS IS TOO FUNNY 😭😭
After finishing trick or treating, watching the Thursday Jack video BEST COMBO EVER!!!! (im commenting this while eating my sweets!)
me too lol
Same
17:49 English is one of the rare languages that don't do this, out of all the languages I know/learning, only English does this
It’s due to the erosion of case endings in end of the Old English period.
A decent bit of languages do not have noun classes, actually, such as Sino-Tibetan languages, Japonic languages, Koreanic languages, Bengali (technically older words do but people generally use the masculine as the gender neutral), Tagalog and other Philippines languages (excluding Spanish loans), Persian, Armenian, Finnish (and other Uralic languages), Turko-Monglic languages (Turkish, Mongolian, Sakha, Uyghur, Qazaq, &c), Georgian, Swahili, and many many others.
Grammatical gender is quite common but also not the majority.
I’m at 608 days on Duolingo German. I wanted to quit at 500 but physically couldn’t. Just like you I’m doing the bare minimum now and maybe waiting till 1000 days to quit
Who is German too?
Me if i was 8 to understand strong germam
Me
I am from german😂
Ich
@@StumbleGuy859 stark
Ive been doing German for two years or so and I started with Duolingo also. I do like movies other apps and went to Berlin earlier this year, too. Hopefully you're able to go to Germany and try some out! It is a bit overwhelming at first but feels really good to be able to order at a cafe and restaurant and stuff!
I also used to learn German one year ago, but for only 50 days. I spent A LOT of time on it, and still remeber a bunch of common words
HOLY CRAP THE ROMANIAN MAP KID
Hello David S.
I done German for a couple hundred days
Jack always makes a banger 🎉
Das ist ziemlich cool von dir Jack, wie wäre es mit einem Geographie Video in Deutschland?
I admire people who put the time and effort into learning languages, thumbs up. I know German is not an easy language to learn but frankly I expected a little more after 3 years. I think a few weeks of training with your pronunciation with a native German speaker would work wonders if you don't want to be immediately recognized as a foreigner in Germany.
Your pronunciation is perfectly fine!
I'd love to see you navigating germany and just having no issues!
1:57 bro sounded so british
c-cause he is.
@@Alieee_Editsimagine stuttering in a reply
@@qwertuiii w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-what?
@@Mutt_the_Mayanyour so unfunny its insane
@@qwertuiiiits putting emphasis, and what are you gonna do about it
You pronounciation at 16:57 is so perfect, it caught me by surprise 😅
wtf? Its terrible... 17:24 "was ist dein beroof". Yeah, perfect pronunciation indeed! xD
"Die Pizza kostet" sounds pretty good
@@tecnicoyt Yes but Pizza is a word that is exactly the same in english. And d, ie, k, s and t is also pronounced exactly the same in english. There is nothing that is hard for an english speaker to pronounce here. Lets hear him say ä ö and ü properly...
@@AeneaSXI idk what it was. But just the way he says that and his tone caught me offguard
@@tecnicoyt Thats fair I suppose. : )
Now do 10,000 days of Finnish and learn nothing
I am mostly impressed that you kept the sounds without feeling the need to smash your phone whenever they jingled 😂
Ich finde es sehr toll wie gut du deutsch sprechen kannst mach weiter so ich Mag deine Videos sehr ein Jack sucks at German kanal wäre vielleicht was tolles danke für deine Videos
Jacksucksatgerman
Fr
We need that
No,Jacksucksatdeutsch
@@RampagedDamageno JackIstSchlechtInDeutsch
@@littlegeekchessmartinbotsucksatchess
(I do to)
YESSSS WE ARE SPOILED AGAIN
FINALLY
Verbringe jetzt eine Woche in Deuschland
Du hast „Deutschland“ falsch geschrieben.
I hope I didn‘t write that wrong
You spelled that correctly @@Gaming47585
@@Gaming47585 you got it right (I am german)
@@HeroGuy-j4c I didn‘t use Google translator or something like that I used my own Knowledge to write that comment
@@Gaming47585 Oh ok.
If I consider how much French I knew after learning it at school for four years for about 150 minutes a week, your level of German is amazing for the time per day you put into it. You could easily get along in Germany and the grammatical mistakes are of little importance. Well done!!
17:34 So... Adding the -in at the end of a profession or in general of some words, called "gendering" is somewhat controversial. You basically always use the -in if talking about one singular female person, and also -innen (the plural version of -in) if talking about a group of females. But if talking about a mixed group, some people hang on the the old standard of the generic masculinum, just ditching the -innen in the plural, while the more progressive approach is to say the plural in masculine and feminine form. Example: My group of roommates, some of which are female and some are male: "Meine Mitbewohnerinnen und Mitbewohner" (My rommates (female) and roommates (male)). This concept also sometimes exists in english, think of "Actor" and "Actress"
Wieso haben die nicht von Anfang an eine "Normalform" in unserer Grammatik eingebaut. Dann hätten wir jetzt nicht den Salt 😂
Worth the journey! Happy Halloween!
Make a whole reddit video but only German no english
Jack: I'm not a narcissist
Also Jack: 8:43
The gendering thing is actually not just for professions but nearly all nouns (and adjectives) referring to a person that can be either gender. You could for example also have „der*die Leser*in“ („the reader“), „der*die Anfänger*in“ („the beginner“) etc.
(This * system is one attempt at making the German language more gender inclusive, and here also a good way of showing examples)
German also, when it comes to plurals as well as singulars that may refer to a person of any gender uses something called „generisches Maskulinum“. So for example when you talk about „ein Lehrer“ it might be a man, but depending on the context it might also be a person of unspecified gender. „Die Lehrer“, 90% of the time are not just men even though the maskulinum is used. But the fact that the words for men are the same as the words for men and also potentially women (and non binary people) does biase people in a certain way, and is just generally not super inclusive, which is where the „Gendersternchen“ (*) comes from as an alternative way to refer to people in a less biased way.
This is what bothers me about Duolingo. It seems like it teaches people stuff without ever explaining the why or how. I find it baffling that Duolingo has apparently over 999 days not managed to transmit the concept of grammatical gender efficiently (which is not your fault, for the record). I feel like in order to learn and speak a language well, you either need develop „Sprachgefühl“ („language intuition“) or be provided with some rules. And Duolingo seems to help with neither.
This is not to say that your Duolingo streak isn‘t impressive, but I‘d say that if you want to keep learning German I‘d recommend taking a look at something that actually explains what is going on with things like grammatical gender etc. so that you can understand why you are doing certain things, and then maybe also immersing yourself in the language by reading in German and watching German media and maybe also trying to use the things that you learned by talking to people. I think Duolingo is a great way to start learning a language, but it has served its purpose now and I don‘t know if you‘re going to get much more out of the App.
He did really well He even has a good "Aussprache"
1:22 Its ok but far from perfect.
It's really interesting to see this video as a german
12:38 Die Aussprache hört sich nicht schlecht an.
Congrats in 1,000 days!! What an accomplishment!🎉
as a german i really enjoyed this video and not many youtubers show this kind of content and i like this kind of content (not that you need to do this content everyday i just like this content)
I would advise you to do some kind of project or some videos in germany, where you have to speak with them in german, or if thats not your cup of tea, I would highly recommend something like chat gpt it is actually very good I have never had a problem with using it with german or english, atleast no one I could casually identify, besides very minor things in writing. Its surprising how just months ago it struggled with simple math 2+5=7 or something like that and now it can speak in weird german accents :D.
Watching him struggle on Apfelschorle just now was SO FUNNY BECAUSE I LIVE IN GERMANY FOR BASICALLY MY WHOLE LIFE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
mein gott
How did bro survive this long without the opps getting to him💀
I lost my 400 day streak🥲😔
womp womp
womp womp
I'm Danish, and Danish learners are often confused by the difference between en/et (a/an) because unlike in English, there is literally no consistent rule to know which one to use. It's the same thing in German, except you have 3 options and like 10 different ways it can affect the rest of the sentence. In Danish it only affects the ending of the noun in the definite forms, that's it. I've had German lessons for a combined 7 years or so. I can pronounce any German word with 99% success, understand written language fairly well, order in restaurants with few problems and other normal things. But I could never simply write just 3 sentences without a grammatical error.
3:48 the bear got's me 😂 dein Deutsch ist gut!!!🎉
Hä voll beeindruckend bro🫶
Kann auch deutsch
As a native German I gotta say: For 1000 days of practicing every day with Duolingo, you are oding great! Even me as a native German still struggle with some grammar and pronounciation :D However, in Germany most of the teenageers and young adults you see can speak almost or even completely fluent english. The only ones who mostly cant speak fluent english are the eldery and the children ^^
Yes! My mom lives in Germany (we are from Japan though) and I have visited her a few time and noticed that. 💞
@ Woah I personally love Japan, I’ve always wanted to visit Japan and even learned the basics 🤭🎀
To the elderly you can speak russian (if in the Eastern part) 🤣
@@1234567qwerification not always
Good job Jack! :D
I'm learning Danish as a German and I'm on a 489 day streak now :)
Und außerdem: Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland!
Nicht schlecht Jack! Dein Deutsch ist sehr gut! Mach weiter so (Not bad Jack! Your german is fantastic! Continue learning it!
Now a Vacation in Germany to test it in real life
Diese Kommentar sektion ist nun eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland!!!
Ein Volk. Eine Nation. EINE KOMMENTARSEKTION!!!!!!!
Nah
Nah we good
yeah we do actually use all those gendered words in german. pretty much every noun that describes a person has a female and male variation. sadly, it's still quite common to only use the male version when addressing everyone, which obviously excludes non-male people. that's why a lot of people have been trying to come up with a solution for that problem and instead of using both words like "Lehrerinnen und Lehrer" they combine that to "Lehrer*innen". there's been political discussions about this for a while as some people say it looks ugly and destroys the flow of the language. in my state, it's even forbidden to use it in school/university. ridiculous in my opinion, it's just an attempt to make our language more inclusive
This comment will be forgotten forever in millions of other comments😢
Nope not me
nuh uh
potato salad
I did spanish on duo. I went into town and someone was asking if anyone spoke Spanish. I offered to try. Everything he said was in a duo lesson and the answers I needed to give were also in the duo lesson. It was quite a complex conversation. I was so proud! Thanks duo. Hablo español ahora!
Jack sounds like the other students in my German class who barely pay attention to our teacher