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Me: "I want to learn German."
Them: "Why would you do that? Don't bother!"
Me: "Because I spend half my time on the Fediverse clicking on the 'Translate' button."
I can't help it if so many of the awesome accounts I follow are in German. And I want to be able to understand their messages without clicking on 'Translate' 50+ times a day. Plus this way I would understand / could attend ALL the talks at Berlin #FediDay.
I'm putting this here so that people hold me accountable 😅🤗
@_elena I don't speak it, but I understand some basic Te Reo, because of all the awesome New Zealanders one of my alts follows - they have a habit of using a lot of names from the indigenous people of those islands, as well as other words.
I also speak Doric, a variant of Scottish, which oddly pronounces "wh" as "f", something it shares with Te Reo.
However I’m happy that the Fediverse seems to be a "German thing". ;)
(Taking into account the other current "German Things" …)
@_elena I'm right there with you! Every time that I look at my Fediverse feed I want to learn German, not only to read the posts here, but because of all the cool events that I see happening in Berlin.
I was complaining to a friend the other day that I cannot find any in-person Free Software, BSD/UNIX, etc. meetups in my area (there were several regularly scheduled ones pre-COVID, but now, none), and concluded that I need to move to Germany.
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@_elena There's a translate button in mastodon 😅??
@_elena I post on two accounts, one in English, one in German. I often translate to the second language, so you'd often get the same post in English and German. If what I generally do is interesting to you, it might help. :)
This is one of the best reasons to learn a language. 😊
Oh. And do you know LanguageTransfer? It is a really good free language course taught in English audio. It focuses on understanding. I used it to learn Spanish.
@_elena Seeing a few recommendations here to start with learning German I wonder if there is perhaps something similar to https://waywordradio.org/ for German? It's a radio show with two linguists taking questions from audience and it is such fun! I always wondered how they did it, answering the questions on the spot so well. Anyway: Question to your audience (If I may): Is there something similar for German?
@_elena Ich habe Dich gerade zum ersten Mal im Fediverse gesehen und Dein Einführungsvideo angesehen.
Es ist großartig, Danke dafür!
Ich zeige es jetzt meinen Freundinnen und Freunden (leider per WhatsApp) 😀
@_elena it would also be helpful if the translate option was located at the 🔝 of a post rather than the bottom.
@_elena
Viel Erfolg und gutes Gelingen!
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@_elena wait what... There is a translate button?
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@_elena As someone from Germany I don't get it, but I still wish you good luck on your journey. Honestly I'm ready to face the fact that I might have to leave Germany in the future if shit hits the fan and if that happens I would rather forget my native language. Might be a bit cynical, but oh well.