It's the same with German. I had a German friend and every time I wanted to learn and use a cool new German word with him, it was the same word in English.
I loved learning German in late middle school (7th-9th grade) turns out we had re-started the curriculum every time we got a new teacher, which was five times. Last teacher comes in, we are borderline illiterate and haven't even started on proper pronoun grammar. I did not continue German in high school.
In Vienna, the tram lines are all just said as numbers, except one, the D tram. This tram goes from north to south, and in the north it goes to Nußdorf, which you could translate as Nut Town.
So Vienna is the only place in the world where you can ride the D to Nut Town
My american roommate got really concerned for a second when my buddy ranted about how annoying organizing trips with his churchs youth group had become because, „nowadays you have to check that everyone got a handy before we leave with the bus“
I only now realized why that's funny to english speakers. It just reads normal to german speakers but I guess for english speakers it would be something like "Kill Pill"
My hack for when I couldn't remember a verb, was to just stick "-ieren" on the end of an English verb and then conjugate that as normal. It worked like... 75% of the time.
Same for french. Here in Quebec we made up a lot of words to use instead but in French they don't have a word for weekend or parking or shopping, they just say "weekend" and "parking" and "shopping" lol...
Don't pretend you guys in Québec don't use a shit ton of anglicisms lol more than in europe, just different. And a lot of your anglicism are also hidden because you translate literally in french so it sounds off to us like "ça fait sens" being a translatio of "it makes sense" instead of "ça a du sens". And also just straight up english words in half the sentence lol
Well to be fair at least english is a germanic language lol. Tbf I don't know if it really makes a difference, cuz I feel like there's a pretty good chance they're just straight loanwords, rather than evolving alongside each other or stemming from the same base or anything
Started learning German because I was watching Dark and I was like "I swear I can almost understand this" and it turns out a lot of German is just Spicy English.
One fun thing I learned when I went to Gamescom was Germans say "That's what she said" in English rather than German. Translating it to German was deemed "weird"
If they mean what I think they mean then its a word for a person that... likes to cuddle. It's moreso used for men in my experience.
"Kuschelbär" is the german word.
German and English at least have some common roots, they diverged only around 1500 years. So most of the similarities aren't loan worst but instead stem from the shared roots.
Very different from japanese and english which share no common ancestry
My highschool English teacher didn't know German and would sometimes ask us what something is called in German. I had to say "it's the same in German" so many times that it kind of became my catchphrase in that class.
I sometimes think to myself that bavarian word actually looks like the english word pronounced german.
And then we have my dutch friend that speaks perfect english and learns german. When I can't decide wether she's speaking german or english, most of the time it's dutch
I once got a cold sore while in Germany and needed to buy some cold sore cream. I looked up the German word for it, which unfortunately is "herpescreme". So I visited a pharmacist and asked to buy some herpescreme and they just looked at me completely puzzled. I pointed to the cold sore on my lip and they said in perfect English, "Oh! You want some Zovirax!"
Hoody being Pullover (one word pronounced as german as possible) in german is something that was weird to figure out. Used pullover all my life and then figured out that it's "pull over" probably because it doesn't have a zipper.
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u/dboti9k 9h ago
It's the same with German. I had a German friend and every time I wanted to learn and use a cool new German word with him, it was the same word in English.