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
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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
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  
Viel Glück John! |