Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) need German help!

Yeah this is a really simple problem, but I can't find it in my german book for some reason... =/ I'd be much abliged if someone could tell me if when you are talking about the weather if you say:

"Heute ist schon."

or

"Heute ist Schön."

Or something else completely!

Thanks. ( btw the sooner I can get a reply the better! )

It's "Heute ist es schön." - or you can say "Heute ist schönes Wetter."

"Heute ist es schön" is right, with "es" you implicitely mean "the weather". So, Lurker's second sentence is a full form of that : "Heute ist schönes Wetter."

"Es" means "it" in English.

Or you can say <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> "Boah, geiles Wetter heute" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

Edit:

I remember an other phrase in Gemany, "Ein Wetter zum Helden zeugen" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Was that the day your parents made Stone ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />


For foreigners : Slang and high language are two sides of the same medal. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Danke <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Ich bin sehr neue um Deutsch.

I probably just ruined the German language there. ( Neu or neue? Isn't *e for an adjective? doh ( isn't um for time? like um wie viel Uhr?) )

Thanks though! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[color:"yellow"] Ich bin sehr neue um Deutsch.[/color]
If you want to say it in this way so [color:"yellow"] "Ich bin neu in Deutsch" [/color] will be better.

But the whole sentence is wrong for the statement you will made.
Its mean that you are new in Germany, are you stay in Germany? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

You mean that [color:"orange"] you just start to learn the german language[/color]. Or that the german language is new for you.
So you can say, "German is new for me" --> "Deutsch ist neu für mich."
But, i think, better is try to say exactly what you mean.
Like, [color:"orange"] Ich habe gerade angefangen Deutsch zu lernen. [/color]

This bring back old and painfull memories <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />. And I still don't know German, despite reading it for five years...

Übereil

Don't worry, the German language certainly has its difficulties. It's not just you <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

And sometimes it takes quite a while until you can appreciate what you've learnt at school. I've spent five years learning French at school, but only realized a few years later how beautiful the French language really is. Unfortunately, I can't say that my French is good, though <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Yesterday I read about an "National Spelling Contest" that's being held in the US. THe person who writes about that - apparently living there - clearly says : "You want to learn the English language ? Learn the German one instead !" In this sense, pointing out to the similarities and giving several examples of German words that are seemingly used in this national spelling contest. Also, I reacently read in a text (I think Stone pointed this out, but I'm not 100% sure anymore) that German words are cuurrently "in" in the US. That's fashion, it seems. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

As I remember german, dutch and english come from germanic language/family.
Just like french, spanish, italian come from roman language/family.
So that's why it's easier for a german to learn english or dutch etc. than french spanish. and vice versa.

I've got an English language question :

The footprints of a horse, are they indeed called footprints or hoofprints or what ?

Someone I know would like to know that.

hoofprints

nice, nice! Bon, bon *gg*

I was in Wales two weeks ago and had bought a little nice book "how to learn welsh". German is too easy in contrast with this language. But I like to roll ( can I say roll?)this rrrrrrr. I love this pronouncation. *gg*

My granny says always nonsens and she doesn't know it's an english word.
It's funny, the word kindergarden is a german word "Kindergarten.
garden is in german Garten *gg* this paralles makes it easier to learn.

I think english is an mix of many various languages: german, latin, french and so on.

That's how I see it as well, and that keeps helping learn it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />