2007-06-25 20:22:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Really? Oh!
Ith sis Dave Lombardo from se band thlayer?
2007-06-25 20:57:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because we don't have it that way in our language.
I do not want to point out what letters English speakers have problems with in German.
That's the way it is - to learn a language accent free means either to learn it very early or having some extraordinary talent because the ability to hear certain sounds decreases with age.
BTW no one speaking German would pronounce an "s" as "th" it's only the other way round.
It is more important what you say than if you have an accent or not
2007-06-26 07:28:05 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Did you know "zat many English haff" a problem with pronouncing "ü" and rolling their "r's?" Pronouncing the "Pf" and "Ps" sounds accurately takes years for a non-German speaker. Try saying "Pferd" or "Psychologisch" for some tongue gymnastics.
I did note one poster's observation that the Germans say "Cher-mon-ee" for Germany. Saying our word "jungle" gives them slight pause, as well.
Now what's all this about "not borrowing too much from French, thankfully?" Haven't studied much French, have you?
Listen, whenever we needed a new word, we raided the French lexicon. That's why we use words like "sabotage,"
"rendez-vous," "chic," "au jus," "Ã la mode," "haute cuisine,"
etc., because their "counterpart didn't exist in English and the French had already named the concept or word. French has that "je ne sais quoi" that will make the culture indestructible, regardless of how young Americans imagine themselves to hate things French.
2007-06-26 07:00:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
oh garfield, you make me laugh, english borrowed 65 percent of its vocabulary from french and latin words, so thankfully, "not too much from French"...
by the way, is this a problem for you?
and: as someone said further down, at least the germans do speak english – many english-speaking natives don't speak any other language but their own and moreover not always very perfectly...
and to finish: i know many germans who don't have this th-problem, so please try to be somewhat less unfair.
2007-06-26 04:44:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, just like the French and any other people who do not have that sound in their own language.
Thanks goodness I have a lisp, so I had no trouble with it.
2007-06-26 08:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by Cabal 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes I noticed.
By the way, its not a "problem" its a difference.
some peepoe havre da probrems wis ge engrish but leest day twy.
2007-06-26 03:27:43 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes I know I also noticed they have a problem with the G.
Or maybe it's just this one girl, she says dsherman instead of german
2007-06-26 04:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by Natasha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yep funny isnt it, though english people in general have trouble speaking any german, period. or any other language besides english for that matter. somestimes asknig them to speak proper english is to much.
2007-06-26 04:12:24 · answer #8 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes I knew this... pretty weird huh as English is really based on the German language, ok a lot of other languages too and borrowed a lot of words frm all over the place... but thankfully not too much from French
2007-06-26 03:26:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
No, zey do not! Zat is nosink but schlander!
2007-06-26 05:03:16 · answer #10 · answered by Sterz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋