At first it annoyed me slightly but I’ve noticed that I can understand most of them without having to use a translator, so now it’s just free language practice. And deciphering memes is decidedly more fun than taking a course.
Yup, same, I’m enjoying learning German this way now
Und ich lerne Englisch vor allem durch eure Michmichs ^^
I blocked all the German instances because I couldn’t understand them anyway.
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Apparently a solution to the problem offends them lmao, didn’t realize me seeing posts I can’t comprehend was so important to these goofballs.
Get good and learn a little German you silly American
I don’t have time energy or fucks to give when it comes to that sorry, it’s nothing against German I took German in highschool but I’m not trying to do that just so I can doomscroll in another language
Your loss.
Also non-Americans trying to browse Lemmy during work…
I really wish I could understand German humour
German human is no laughing matter.
German idioms are funny. I read a book translated from German into English using ai. And Some of their idioms had me rofl.
Haha I wake up pretty early in the US and see a lot of the German content. I have learned a lot about tables recently.
I saw this one and was like “oh shit i guess i speak german.”
Ja genau.
I had a two year streak on Duolingo and I still get maybe 40% with context clues help.
I took German in high school, and while I understand maybe 60% of the words, 90% of the (what I assume to be critical) context is lost on me
Back when this meme format was making the rounds on 4chan, I always saw it as a guy with a really long Fu Manchu moustache and to this day I still can’t unsee it.
That’s how I’ve always seen it too. Your comment just now made me realize that those are his forearms.
You have ruined the Internet and memes for me forever now. I hope you’re happy.
Suffer well, brother.
Swede here dealing with the same realization. Although continental Scandinavian is a Germanic language and share the same ancestry as German, eg proto-Germanic, and thereby shares a lot of similarities, it’s not mutually intelligible. I can how ever often times pick out some words and with some bending and shuffling around get a gist of what’s going on. But only if it’s presented in a meme format.
I still can’t figure out what “ich eil” means or even what language it is
And it’s somehow still an amazing experience despite not knowing a single word
Also learn everything about Linux so I can get all these Linux memes that keep popping up. And learn to program so I can get all the programmer memes.
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Deutsch reicht.
I’ve had to block so many German Lemmy’s. It’s frustrating because I can tell it’s a good article and I believe European news more than US news now.
I ended up blocking a bunch of German instances, I don’t dislike it or anything I just get nothing out of it lol.
I’ve been doing German on Duolingo for over a year and I can get about 20% of the content they post, so I’m pretty happy to have an actual use for the work I put in.
