/lang/ - German — World4ch

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-28 22:59

What is the best, free way to learn German? I'm 13 right now and wanting to learn it, but all I know is a couple of greetings.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-29 0:08

>>1
take German at school
buy a decent text book
Listen to German music/watch German movies
GTFO of 4chan
????
Profit

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-29 4:16

why bother? germans speak perfect english

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-29 4:24

>>2
What exactly is wrong with me being on 4chan?

>>3
I know that, but I want to learn a new language, because it is a challenge. If I learn German, afterwords I'm gonna learn Spanish probably, then Swedish. I want to be able to speak many languages just in case I need to, in certain situations.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-29 7:43

>>4
What exactly is wrong with me being on 4chan?

I'm 13 right now

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-29 20:46

>>5
What is wrong with 13 year olds? As far as I know, this isn't an age restricted area of the website (is it?).

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-30 9:34

It's all fun and games until someone links to a picture of a baby being shat on

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-30 10:03

>>6
If you are under the age of 18, or it is illegal for you to view the materials contained on this website, discontinue browsing immediately.

http://www.4chan.org/rules#global

IHBT

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-30 10:45

Yup learning German sounds like a good plan. Japan imported a lot of loanwords from German so if you speak fluent German, you will have no problem talking to most Japanese people also.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-30 12:32

>>9
Japan imported a lot of loanwords from German
LOL WUT

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-30 12:55

>>10
He's right though:

"In the Meiji era, Japan also had extensive contact with Germany, and gained many loanwords from German, particularly for medicine, which the Japanese learned from the Germans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairaigo

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-30 23:01

>>4
What exactly is wrong with me being on 4chan?
You mean, apart from how useless *chan is for leaning useful stuff?

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-31 15:50

Japanese is a Germanic language with an Cino-asiatic vocabulary.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-31 20:05

>>13
Here's what I call bullshit.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-31 23:19

>>14
Go educate yourself kiddo.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-01 0:43

>>15

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Name: Anonymous 2009-04-01 6:04

Well you could even say that Japanese is in fact just a dialect of German. It's essentially the same language.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-01 6:34

How can Japanaese be Germanic
It doesn't even use the Roman alphabet
Think before you post

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-01 7:46

>>18
Just because Japan has been influnced by China doesn't mean that Japanese is not Germanic.
Think before you post.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-01 12:26

>>18
Polish doesn't use the cyrilic alphabet but it's still a slavic language.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 7:15

Japanese and German are both languages spoken and written by human race from Earth, it's all the same shit. I wonder how alien languages sound like.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 11:42

>>16
I d'awwwwww'd at the cat

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 7:58

>>18
While the postulate is indeed stupid, the script a language is written with is completely irrelevant. Is Vietnamese latin? Was Turkish semitic and in 20th century suddenly transformed to latin? Is the romanian language slavic when you go north?

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 11:23

>>23
I'm not sure about those languages and I don't care for I am a Japanologist.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 17:33

Japanologist ROFL.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-10 14:19

>>23
Not to mention Yiddish, which is Germanic, but written with Hebrew letters. Speaking of which, Hebrew and Arabic are closely related languages that use different alphabets.

>>24
Wow, a Japanologist (sic) with no real brain. Big shock.

Ok, howsabout Korean? It was written with Chinese characters until Han'gul caught on some 50-60 years ago. Was it Chinese until then?

Or howsabout Japanese before kana was invented, when they still had to resort to Chinese characters? Was it Chinese until then?

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-11 11:26

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Name: Anonymous 2009-04-11 18:48

trolls trolling trolls trolling fucking idiots

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-12 8:09

>>26
1. Chinese/Korean are not the same as Japanese. This is exactly the same as asking an Egyptologist about the Zulu language just because those are both African languages.

2. Who's to say? It's not like there are any written records of that time period.

I think we all know who is the one without a brain in this thread.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-13 15:58

>>29
I don't think someone this retarded can type

6/10 good try

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