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no posts in here for almost two weeks!!

what is happening with the german class? been working so i missed the last two meetings :( any plan for a new one?

anyways, i'm thinking seriously about going back to berlin, probably as soon as possible. london just aint the same ;)

naja, werden sehen :)
 
districtline said:
no posts in here for almost two weeks!!

what is happening with the german class? been working so i missed the last two meetings :( any plan for a new one?

anyways, i'm thinking seriously about going back to berlin, probably as soon as possible. london just aint the same ;)

naja, werden sehen :)
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Well we did aim for a meetup two Sundays ago but it fell through mainly due to Goldencitrone & I having a heavy sesh the night before & iirc he even carried onto Sunday night!

There's been no talk of a proposed date for the next meetup as yet. But considering it's that mad time of year party/festival-wise & also Tomas & Comicstripgirl's little one has now got into a sleeping routine they can only really do weekends these days... so we may have to hold off for a wee while. Over the next few months, the weekends for me are looking chocka with social plans/holiday/study so maybe it's a case of 'watch this space'... :confused:
 
Berlin, Berlin, wir fahren nach Berlin!

(That's the german football team, not me..)

Districtline, ngeru is right, it doesn't look like the stokie meet-ups are gonna happen over the summer; my w-ends are pretty much booked up all the way into august, too.

However, I'm about to arrange a Brixton meeting with Blind Lemon and his mate, both of whom speak german better than me, pretty much!!:eek: So that would suit your level, really. I'll let you know when I know more (next friday is a possibility - the 23.), and you'd be more than welcome to come along.

Also, if you're desperate for a chat in german, you can always come along to an unrelated urban event that Choc or myself will be at.

:)
 
Had a german lesson with b/f last night with some Falco lyrics :D

Mutter, oh Mutter (3x) Der Mann mit dem Koks (2x)
Der Mann mit dem Koks ist da

Es wurde einst
das schwarze Gold der Ruhr genannt
Es spendete Wärme, Behaglichkeit und Energie
In einem besonderen chemischen Verfahren
verflüchtigten sich aus dem Urstoff die Gase
aus Kohle wurde Koks
Die Menschen sehnten sich nach der Energie,
die ihnen das Koks lieferte
Doch für das Volk war der Stoff zu teuer
Mutter, oh Mutter
Der Mann mit dem Koks ist da

Mutter der Mann mit dem Koks ist da, ja mein Junge, das weiß ich ja (2x)
Ich hab‘ kein Geld und du hast kein Geld, wer hat den Mann mit dem Koks bestellt? (2x)

Der Mann mit dem Koks
Das schwarze Gold ist weiß geworden:
Man nehme eine einfache Rezeptur
Und aus Koks wird wieder Kohle
Wärme, Behaglichkeit, Energie (2x)
Mutter, oh Mutter
Der Mann mit dem Koks ist da

Mutter, der Mann mit dem Koks ...
 
hola again german speaking friends.

i'm leaving london next saturday, to go to vienna! so, looks like i'm going to speak german intensively, at least for the month i'm there. yay! deutsch reden, ich mag! :)

and seeing as i've been supporting germany intesively for a month now i'm really looking forward to the semi-finals on tuesday. any tips for where to see the game with other deutschland fans? was watching the quarter-final against argentina in cambridge yesterday and felt sort of alone there... :)

the u75 german class should definitely support "our" team on tuesday ;)
 
districtline said:
any tips for where to see the game with other deutschland fans? was watching the quarter-final against argentina in cambridge yesterday and felt sort of alone there... :)

the u75 german class should definitely support "our" team on tuesday ;)
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Good plan! I'll let you know where I'll watch it (and pm you my mobile number). Might just be at home in south london or in a pub (probably central or south). Would be cool if other people joined us - I'm also gonna check with Choc!
 
Mal beiläufig erwähnt: "Spiegel online" hat einige sehr interessante Threads über die WM. Vor allen Dingen ist der Thread über die englische Mannschaft überaus lesenswert!:) :) :)

MsG
 
districtline said:
hola again german speaking friends.

i'm leaving london next saturday, to go to vienna! so, looks like i'm going to speak german intensively, at least for the month i'm there. yay! deutsch reden, ich mag! :)

the u75 german class should definitely support "our" team on tuesday ;)
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That makes two of us heading out to Vienna for a month. I'm there for the whole of September with the aim of improving (substantially) my German, though if I meet the girl of my dreams out there in the process I won't complain!

Seriously though, how does the U75 German class work? I'm still trying to get a move down to London and am caught between whether to register in Cambridge or do something in London. I've just done the GCSE as an evening class.

PR
 
I'm trying to think of ways to improve my German past A-level standard:

1. Reading short stories in depth and trying to understand every word. So far I only have Franz Kafka, can anyone reccomend any modern German short stories?

2. For more formal language I should probably try to read a news site, like sueddeutsche.de.

3. Does anyone know any interesting German talk radio or podcasts?

4. Any good internet forums?
 
Update: Districline and I managed to watch the (rather heartbreaking) semi-final together and much german was spoken.:)

Viel Spass in Wien, Districtline!

Prince Rhyus: we kind of have/had two meet-ups running. One in Stoke Newington - we managed to meet fairly regularly in the winter but all have conflicting schedules atm.
I'm also meeting up occasionally with Blind Lemon here in Brixton (in fact, I'm off to meet him now!) who speaks German fluently. There is no structure or anything to it we just make it up as we go along. If you're ever in London and fancy meeting up, get in touch.:)

Negativland:1. Try Julia Franck's Bauchlandung or Wladimir Kaminer's Russendisko. :)
2. Yes, Sueddeutsche is a good bet, as is Der Spiegel oder Die Zeit.
3. No. :(
4. Don't really do german internet forums - I believe Choc posts on one, don't know which. But most of the news sites should have some kind of discussion board, or just google for whatever you're interested in, there should be plenty out there byt way of film, music, sports etc boards.
 
ok, the austrians really Do speak weird. it is, in a way, really disturbing to have "grüss gott!" shouted at you every time you enter a store. :eek: and their accent is well, weird. like a bavarian on drugs.

i had to write a placement test my first day and apparently my german is supposed to be really good :eek: :confused: so i had to choose a "special course" and seeing as the options were business, linguistics or literature i naturally choose literature. turns out it's all austrian literature! what the fuck! ingeborg bachmann and daniel kehlmann. and the lecturer is a specialist in austrian literature and refuses to let us do anything german. "well, if you wall want to read böll...". crazy.

anyway, yeah, russendisko is a great start if you want to get into german fiction. one of the first i read when i started learning german, really easy to read and easy to "get into". julia franck is a good choice as well, and zora!, i do think i found her new book/text you were talking about in a store here the other day. quite tasty though, 8 euro or so and i feel really poor now :( die armut kotzt mich an! i will start on lagerfeuer as soon as i get access to a library again. BUT, i'm trying to get of the fiction now as i'm supposed to be a student again come late august so i'm reading "die rückkehr der geschichte" by joschka fischer now! :D

i'm off to se the filmatisation of "herr lehmann" at a kino here in wien on wednesday. it's weird but i'm actually really looking forward to it. one of my fav books ever and the film could/should be good as well.
 
Ta your lot I think I'll order Russendisko.

I have 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' but I don't stand a chance at that yet, novels are too daunting. Maybe I should try shampoo bottles.
 
districtline said:
turns out it's all austrian literature! what the fuck! ingeborg bachmann and daniel kehlmann. and the lecturer is a specialist in austrian literature and refuses to let us do anything german. "well, if you wall want to read böll...". crazy.
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Ah, that's great, man, you'll get to read lots of Schnitzler etc. and before you know it, you'll also be reading Heimito von Doderer's ''Die Daemonen'' und ''Die Strudlhofstiege''. Good luck.:D ;)
 
Hi guys, my next assignment* is on children and advertising and I'm struggling a bit for words to indicate sugary, and chocolatey, breakfast cereals other than 'Fruehstueckskost'. I've got as far as 'Maisflocken' which I could use as 'Maisflocken und aehnliches' but I reckon I'm going to refer to cereals at least four or five times during the talk so I reckon I need at absolute minimum one more up-to-date German expression to indicate cereals aimed at children.

And anyone living or recently returned from Germany - do they have the same great stacks of kiddie cereal as we do now? Breakfast cereal consisted of muesli, oats or puffed oats when I lived there. <sighs, mutters, in my day usw.>

Vielen Dank, bis bald!

*OU German course
 
AnnaKarpik said:
Hi guys, my next assignment* is on children and advertising and I'm struggling a bit for words to indicate sugary, and chocolatey, breakfast cereals other than 'Fruehstueckskost'. I've got as far as 'Maisflocken' which I could use as 'Maisflocken und aehnliches' but I reckon I'm going to refer to cereals at least four or five times during the talk so I reckon I need at absolute minimum one more up-to-date German expression to indicate cereals aimed at children.

And anyone living or recently returned from Germany - do they have the same great stacks of kiddie cereal as we do now? Breakfast cereal consisted of muesli, oats or puffed oats when I lived there. <sighs, mutters, in my day usw.>

Vielen Dank, bis bald!

*OU German course
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I was eating Frosties when I was little* - and that's along time ago. Don't really have an answer to your question, I think people would specify the brand in conversation ie. 'I had Frosties, Smacks, Muesli for breakfast'; another more genric term you could use (a mix of the two you mention )is Fruehstuecksflocken, but I don't know a more 'scientific' nutrionist expression.

*These days I'm sure they've even got Special K...
 
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