Post your custom U Boat Emblems - here is mine

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Johnfb

I love the German Language, and have been struggling for about 5 years to learn it. I can speak it , I would guess, like a five or six year old child would speak it, but I dont care. I go to Germany every year for holiday and adore Munich and love the chance to speak with the locals...but I am so bad at it...der, die, das...what the hell ???, so now everything is das, male or female I dont care everything is das
But I do love it, sounds great to me...just a bit difficult when you dont speak it all the time, nice to hear my officers talk to me in German though.

Bis bald

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!

[Betonov]

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

[VONHARRIS]

Originally Posted by VonApist

Hi, i thought it might be a good idea to share emblems
Here is mine: U-45 1939





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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?

[Johnfb]

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

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!

[Mittelwaechter]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

which is incorrect.

His emblem, translated word for word is:
My Heart burns.
sorry, don't mean to be nitpicking but can't stand my language being translated wrongly, google should know better

My heart is burning means: Mein Herz tut brennen.

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?


'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'.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter

'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'.

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.

[KptnLt Eric Karle]

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

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by KptnLt Eric Karle

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
And hear hear to the 'brilliant band'.

[Missing Name]

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

[brett25]

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

[frau kaleun]

Kommandant's personal emblem:



Plus the emblem for 2nd Flotilla: