Hi John,
glad you enjoy your trips to Germany, Munich especially, that is my home city!
German is not a easy language to learn, partly because of the big words we have, and partly for the der, die and das, as you pointed out.
And it gets even more confusing/difficult depending on which part of Germany you travel, ie dialects.
I speak Bavarian (Schwäbisch), which is predominantly spoken in the southern part of Germany.
I always joke with my fellow Deutsche, they ask me where i come from, i say from Bayern (Bavaria), and i'm a Echter Deutscher!
Which means a 'real' German :O::yeah:
Viel Glück John!

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3002432_n.jpg

The great tiki tiki god demands sacrifice

I know I know, the emblem doesn't fit into the north atlantic setting, more SH IV. But the captain of U-99 was born on the Fiji islands

Ελληνική σημαία με τον δικέφαλο (γερμανικό αετό) σε γερμανικό υποβρύχιο του Β ΠΠ;
Πως σου ήρθε;

Translantion(rough)
A Greek flag on a German WWII Uboot? How did you come up with this idea?

I think if I won the lottery I would move to Munich in the morning, a beautiful city. I took my wife there last year for a week and she fell in love with the city...who couldn't.

I find German people very friendly and overall very nice, I just feel bad that my German is so bad but I think they appreciate the effort from me.

Once it was snowing heavily there and I had chapped lips and went into a chemist to try get some chap stick.

All I could say to the girl was (in bad broken German...with no past tense or anything) " I am here on holiday, my lip is paining me, have you a rememdy for that?" and then made a gesture for putting on a lipstick or something like that. She was laughing, very politely, but picked up a chap stick as she understood what I was trying to say. Lots of hand gestures from me too.
Another guy, in a bar was smiling when I was ordering food and drinks...now I KNOW I was saying what I wanted correctly, but he was smiling so much I asked him if I was saying it wrong (in English) and he replied (in English) that the way I spoke German sounded like I was almost singing it as my tone was gojng up and down...and I thought my German accent was very good. He said it sounded very nice just not "German" at all.

Although I learned my German from tapes and videos I learned the South German dialect, and when in North Germany on a business meeting some time back I found the locals had trouble with what I was saying...bad grammer and weird dialect I guess.


Tschuss

John

Holy Moly - you can't stand wrong translations but you want to tell us 'Mein Herz tut brennen' is the correct translation of 'My heart is burning'?

Where are you from, mate? :DL


'Mein Herz brennt' translates into

'My heart is burning' - if you want to emphasise the present progressive form, or into

'My heart burns' - if it is a general statement.

Present progressive is not really existent in the German language, but you can help yourself emphasising the continuous and progressive aspect by using 'am' + the nominalized infinitve:

'Mein Herz ist am Brennen'


'Tut' is an auxiliary verb here and foozles the sentence.

'Mein Herz tut brennen' would translate into 'My heart does burn'. :O:

You should also know that you can't translate german into english and vice versa word for word, for it doesn't make sense.
Mein Herz brennt is exactly that: my heart burns.
Context doesn't come into it there.
One of the few examples where you can actually translate word for word.
The 'tut' is something i shouldn't have written as it is how i speak it (the sentence), since i'm a Bayer.

I apologise that my Sub emblem has led to disagreement and the conversation vearing off-topic. I just thought that it was an amazing song, from a brilliant band and was appropriate for use as a legend on an emblem

It is not you that needs to apologise.
I apologise, for being too technical :salute:
And hear hear to the 'brilliant band'.

U-127's "Black Dog" can be seen in my sig.

Feuer Frei, thats got to be the coolest signature painting I have seen yet, whats the history on that on may I ask?:salute:

Kommandant's personal emblem:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/...d82d6cc5_z.jpg

Plus the emblem for 2nd Flotilla:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/...ccfb083be5.jpg