Thread 214588729

I work in the tourism industry and we have to put up signs specifically in German to warn about things like rip currents because you motherfuckers speak worse English than a Swedish 5 year old.
I hate having to deal with you motherfuckers, you are by far the worst tourists we get when it comes to speaking English.
And it pisses me off so much because you are also some of the best tourists in other regards, how can you do so many things right but not bother to learn the international language when travelling abroad?
Fucking analbanians with half of their teeth rotted out speak better english than you.
Do YOU not feel shame coming to my country and expect ME do translations pro bono?
What the FUCK is wrong with you guys???

>>214588729 (OP)
Uhmm...based Germans...i guess...

>>214588729 (OP)
>NOOO YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE FUCKING GLOBOHOMO LANGUAGE BEFORE COMING TO MY COUNTRY, CHUD

>>214588729 (OP)
Sweden's English proficiency score is 608 by the way

LMAO!

>>214588729 (OP)
germans live in a society so full of rules its actually illegal to walk across a road. when they come here they feel freedom for the first time in their life, but they dont understand that our rules are there for safety due to forces of nature we cant control. if a signpost and fence say "dont approach the glacier" its not because we care, its because an iceberg migh fall on your head any time. germs cannot into this, they dont understand how we can both cross the road on a red light (just loon for cars, no cars = clear to pass) and be adviced not to walk under glaciers (you cant predict it and when it happends you dont have time to run away) they just lack common sense.

>I work in the tourism industry and we have to put up signs specifically in German to warn about things like rip currents because you motherfuckers speak worse English than a Swedish 5 year old.

A mere hundred years ago the average educated Swede could speak fluent German. Not our fault when your education system has become that shitty.

>>214588729 (OP)
^^ Ger?

>>214589082
What's true is that I indeed don't feel that any rule written in English applies to me. I'm free to do what I want , weird mental gymnastics required for you to make such a post

>>214589105
Yeah but then you blew up Europe twice and now only chuds want to learn German in school.

>>214588729 (OP)
If you're Swedish there's literally no excuse not to be able to speak German, your languages are already very similar it would probably take you 1-2 years to reach reasonable proficiency

they always disappear in national parks here

Most Germans I meet here are chill. Op sounds like an Assi.

>>214589221
Favstian

>>214588956
>compare entire country to German cities

>>214589191
25-30% of modern Swedish words are of German origin.

>>214588956
These scores are such bullshit. Maybe Germans just like the Chinese are really good at studying for tests but actually SPEAKING the language is something you are terrible at.
90% of German tourists are stuttering and pausing to find words. Extremely limited vocabulary. Even worse, when you don't understand what I'm saying you still pretend that you do so you don't look like a fool. The amount of times I have given directions to a German only for 2 minutes later see them take the wrong turn...

>>214588729 (OP)
it do be like that
now excuse me why did you remove my towel from the chair?

>>214589191
if you are Polish you have no excuse of not being able to speak Russian and Ukrainian and Slovakian and Bulgarian and Romanian and Czech and Serbian and Belarusian and...

>>214589378
I do speak Russian. The rest are irrelevant fake languages. I also know some songs in Serbo-Croatian

>>214589330
The country's of Malmö and Stockholm?
I didn't know that they seceded already

>>214589491
>Espoo

>>214589435
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

Germans are known here as well behaved tourists, but they are very strict about evaluating tourism products. They have little desire to buy expensive souvenirs or experience tours, yet they are known for frequently visiting almost free facilities like museums or hiking. Since they tend to stay for a long time, their daily expenditure is rather low. This has become a bit of a concern recently, especially with tourism capacity being nearly saturated.

>>214589345
These rankings are what your false stereotype is built upon lol

Why are you so defensive? It's not surprising that you suck at English when you spend all your time just to learn swedish

Also I don't understand what the fuck is going on in Germany, do you not have WORK?
Every other tourist has gone home to their countries by now.
We are currently closing down for the season and yet every day Germans in mass show up to sit on our beach for a couple of hours (it's too cold to swim any more) and then approach me in broken English
>hallo wher kan vi domp our poopenfarten tanks?

>>214589595
anon don't kid yourself
if I go with you right now around augsburg and spoke to people in English nobody will understand shit, despite my city being marked as everyone speaking fluent english on those tests
if we go together to sweden I assure you most people will speak english

>>214588729 (OP)
When Germans go to Sweden, they expects the Swedes to be fluent in German, lol.

>>214589646
People spend their entire free time, and often also their time at work, on the English speaking internet but don't understand English, sounds plausible. You're the one big exception obviously

>>214589736
Don't Brits expect Maltese people going to Malta to speak English? It's the same shit.

OP is a jerk with anger issues

>>214589736
I would expect them to be wannabe Hitlers with 25% youth unemployment rate that didn't get the memo that it's not 2008 anymore when they were held in high regard in Germany but are now considered failed lowlifes like the English

>>214589840
I think it's the Pole in sweden

>>214589939
kys

>>214589766
No I just grew up obsessed with american media at a young age
most people here don't speak english past simple phrases

>>214588729 (OP)
The only time you see swedes beeing proud about themself is when it comes to English. They pride themself with speaking english, with producing english content and singing in english.
Its sad really - you could consume every swedish content out there and you would end up still knowing absolutely nothing about the country

>>214590005
Hahahahaha

There's a German fairytale about a manlet with anger issues that goes absolutely insane when someone reveals his identity

>Oh how splendid that no one knows what's my actual name

He's like you

>>214589167
here is the thing, we feel the same and give just as little fucks as you. but we do understand what will kill you and what wont.
90kmh speed limit
>fuck it im doubling that, no police around anyway
dont walk close to the edge, its slippery
>yeah i can see, got no interest in dying falling off a cliff
german boomers is the exact opposite, they set their cruise at 80 clogging up our traffic and jump the fence to get a good picture then slip off and die.
just use common sense ffs.

>>214589259
based for knowing the word Assi

>>214590133
>t. literal corporation founded by America

>>214590161
>I BUILTS SCHÖOULS

>>214590247
still mad about Lapland? get over it Pekka

>>214590158
Do you think more people die in traffic or falling off cliffs in norway?

>>214588729 (OP)
German is a global language spoken by hundreds of millions of people, they get virtually all the content created anywhere in the world translated to German so there is no need to learn English for them, or at least not to put so much emphasis on that.

Meanwhile Swedish is spoken by barely 10 million Swedes and 3.454 Finns and no one bothers to translate anything to this language so learning English is necessary for you to have any access to global culture and science.

>>214590402
Germans will never ever look at you as anything other than subhumans no matter how much you tongue clean their anus and build VW spare parts for them.

>>214590402
either its this cope or what this other one is doing that is insisting that Germans actuall speak English
cant be both man

Why are they like this

>>214590133
Let's not pretend Modern Talking, Boney M and the rest of German popslop would be half as famous as they are if they didn't sing in English

>>214590402
This is a meme of the past, perhaps relevant to those old enough to actually watch tv but irrelevant to anyone who had a smartphone in school
There are no special youtube videos and 4chan posts translated to German

>>214590486
oh, are you serious?
I-i hate Germany now...

>>214590563
>There are no special youtube videos and 4chan posts translated to German
there is though
also pretty much everything gets dubbed in Germany and games get translations etc

>>214590563
I think OP primarily means the boomers. First of all, because only German boomers would consider going to Sweden for tourism.

>>214590488
see >>214590563 kek

I've been to Finland by the way and you speak like Russians, constantly omitting a and the and forgetting plural forms

>>214590690
Russians also don't learn English for the same reason - they get everything translated.

>>214590651
Actually I would say that most of the German tourists we get are in the age range of 30-50. Often with kids.

>>214590651
Then he should specify that
>>214590645
And the dubs are very high quality. I test both German and English on most shoes I watch and most of the time go with German but that's only an option on Netflix and with movies, not with any social media outlet

>>214590690
>I've been to Finland by the way and you speak like Russians, constantly omitting a and the and forgetting plural forms
first off you most likely dont know when you are speaking to a Finn
this is not weird since those dont exist in Finnish language and even when I need to use English in work I tend to speak very roughly like that sometimes
dont know about that plural thing, maybe some words are just hard to pronounce

>>214590202
So, we have
Ossi
Ösi
Assi
Ötzi

what else?

>>214590783
>And the dubs are very high quality. I test both German and English on most shoes I watch and most of the time go with German but that's only an option on Netflix and with movies, not with any social media outlet
exactly so you dont really need to learn English
and major youtubers have German dubs and the further things develop the more normal it will be for youtube videos to be dubbed entirely

>>214590803
>this is not weird since those dont exist in Finnish language
Don't worry, that means your language is the normal one. Articles are just completely unnecessary and I have no idea why would anyone come up with an idea to create them, or at least in the way so they must be attached to every noun.

>>214590841
>and major youtubers have German dubs and the further things develop the more normal it will be for youtube videos to be dubbed entirely
On the other hand, I think AI translates even smaller languages very well so further development will actually benefit smaller languages more than the big ones (that already get translated subs/dubs anyway)

>>214590806
wessi

>>214590902
this just means AI can be utilized in smaller languages, but I doubt Finns want dubs and trust AI translated media

>>214590841
>major youtubers have German dubs
Simply incorrect

Also no one has to learn English in any non-english speaking country but take a guess if it's part of the school curriculum in Germany, a country with a closely related native language

>>214590970
>but I doubt Finns want dubs and trust AI translated media
no one will ask you, tho
even today youtube just automatically translates titles, without asking (it's annoying af)

>>214590981
I picked Latin
Proud not to talk frog or pig today

>>214590977
>Also no one has to learn English in any non-english speaking country
Maybe doesn't have officially but not speaking English is like being disabled nowadays, the less relevant your native language is (aka the less content is translated to it), the higher degree of disability it is

>>214590977
>Simply incorrect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AbFXuGDRTs
literally check the settings here
>Also no one has to learn English in any non-english speaking country but take a guess if it's part of the school curriculum in Germany, a country with a closely related native language
no one has to learn English but...one has to learn to go to school? I doubt there is a single nation on earth that isnt some dirt house place where people arent learning English in school. Although no one really learns English by going to school, they learn it by using it.

>>214590981
become a spy o algo

>>214591046
on the other hand, afaik most people who learnt German but didn't practice it after finishing the school, forgot it very quickly. Apparently it's very hard to remember German words because of how long and complicated they are, also because of how Germans loved inventing new words based on German roots (especially in 19th century) rather than using "international" Latin roots like other languages do.

>>214588729 (OP)
Don't care. Serve me a beer, some fish and one of your orange women.

>>214591101
Reminded me of that Soviet joke

>An American spy comes into a Soviet bar
>And orders a drink.
>"No drink for US spies" said the barkeep.
>The spy goes pale. He pulls out a bottle of Vodka and drains it in one big gulp.
>"You drink like Russian, but you are American spy"
>The spy pulls out his accordeon and plays a wonderful Russian folk song, everyone in the bar tearing up, including the barkeep.
>"You sing like Russian", he said under tears, "but you are American spy"
>He starts dancing the Kozachok, worthy of the Bolshoy dancers.
>"You dance like Russian, but you are American spy"
>"Ok, you got me. But how do you know?"
>"There are no black Russians"

>>214591148
>brings up card reader
what do?

>>214591148
One? In Sweden we don't like austerity. Have two.

>>214591027
they will just assume for now but Finns will just switch the settings to English if it goes too far in their mind
in Finland kids nowadays start learning English in the first grade so some kids are almost bilingual. Its a worrying trend, but that is how it is.

AI would need to be very fast and good to actually cause any reversal to this trend and its not gonna be there for decades.

>>214591077
This is correct and (surprisingly to some) it applies to Germany as well.
This only makes it more embarrassing for countries like Sweden and Finland to do worse than Germany
They are sooo proud of their quirky positive good boy stereotype the anglo assigned to them that it really hurts them when Germans are good at speaking a closely related language (i.e. Haus/House, Water/Wasser etc.). Insanity

>>214591081
You have to actually search these to activate them. No one does that and it's a feature that only occured a few months ago. I only know that it exists because a German speaking channel had this annoying English AI voice all of a sudden and I had to search how to deactivate it

>>214589345
I had an encounter in Leipzig with the lead guy in Freenet store in Leipzig when I had problems with their sim-card. So, I greeted him, told him that I have a problem, he gave me a nod and then I proceeded to explain the nature of the problem for 2 minutes. Afterwards, the salesman pulls out fucking Google Translator and explains via it that if I have problems I need to call their hotline. When I repeated in German this time that I can't call their fucking hotline because my German is not good enough to explain the problem I deal with, he replied that he can't help it.The salesman was mid 30s/early 40s white Germ and there was a younger German worker but the Germ refused to let me speak to him. It's surprising how few young Germans working in service sector here speak English

>>214591312
>You have to actually search these to activate them. No one does that and it's a feature that only occured a few months ago
those are not AI, those are real dubs

again, when in Germany kids might watch MrBeast, they watch him in German but in Finland they watch him in English (despite most likely not catching most of what he says)

>>214591258
>AI would need to be very fast and good to actually cause any reversal to this trend and its not gonna be there for decades.
I wouldn't be so sure, given the current pace of development, I think in 5 years AI translation will be flawless and indistinguishable from native speech. Even now I am often surprised how well it translates stuff to Polish, which is a very complicated language after all.

>>214591199
heh

>>"There are no black Russians"
how times have changed...

>>214591138
It's hard to remember any language you don't use, that's not specific to German. It's a popular normies trope to make fun of how much French they actually remember after several years of it in school

>>214589345
I had an encounter with the lead salesman in Freenet store in Leipzig when I had problems with their sim-card. So, I greeted him, told him that I have a problem, he gave me a nod and then I proceeded to explain the nature of the problem for 2 minutes. Afterwards, the salesman pulls out fucking Google Translator and explains via it that if I have problems I need to call their hotline. When I repeated in German this time that I can't call their fucking hotline because my German is not good enough to explain the problem I deal with, he replied that he can't help it.The salesman was mid 30s/early 40s white Germ and there was a younger German worker but the Germ refused to let me speak to him. It's surprising how few young Germans working in service sector here speak English

>>214588729 (OP)
>because you motherfuckers speak worse English than a Swedish 5 year old.
Based. Speaking english well as a ESL is a sign that your country isn't real

>>214591406
>It's hard to remember any language you don't use, that's not specific to German.
In a sense, but some languages are easier to memorize and some are harder. But ofc there is also native bias regarding that, German is simply so different from Polish so it requires much more attention and work not to get rusty in our heads comparing to let's say Russian

>>214591382
AI has already peaked man we are just waiting for that enshittifaction part where the actual costs come up, subscribtion gets pricier and you watch ads while talking to chatGPT

translating English -> Finnish creates technically correct Finnish, very well written and grammatically correct but the problem is that it will always have English structure and will never be creative about translations and not writing in a way an actual Finn would write

>>214589082
>we can both cross the road on a red light (just loon for cars, no cars = clear to pass)
I don't do that and people accused me of autism
Guess I have that in common with germans

>>214591218
>Hier. Stimmt so.
>>214591227
Thx. I'll repatriate them to Liverpool.

>>214589105
>mere hundred years ago the average educated Swede could speak fluent German.
That's because a lot of swedish nobility are originally from northern Germany

>>214591373
Simply absurd that you claim to know what children in Germany are watching on youtube with which settings even

>>214591420
>The salesman was mid 30s/early 40s white Germ and there was a younger German worker but the Germ refused to let me speak to him. It's surprising how few young Germans working in service sector here speak English
at least in Finland, unions used to have one thing about collective agreements in service sector where it said that if you had to use English in customer service they would have to pay you more.
that got scrapped like rather recently, but Germany could have those kind of agreements where it is seen as extra work they didnt agree to

>>214591466
>t but the problem is that it will always have English structure and will never be creative about translations and not writing in a way an actual Finn would write
Doubt, knowing how AI actually "learns" the language, so simply by analyzing real texts, then obviously it must write in the way an actual Finn would write - because it literally "knows" Finnish from the texts Finns wrote on the internet

>>214589345
>Maybe Germans just like the Chinese are really good at studying for tests but actually SPEAKING the language is something you are terrible at.
Meme. Tests depict ability

The English obsession is kinda pathetic to be honest. Let's compete to see who speaks daddy's language the best. Let's randomly drop daddy's words into the other gibberish that he doesn't understand because they're so cool.

>>214591148
Might be a Pole: >>214589939

>>214591540
MrBeast wouldnt hire German dubbing people to dub his videos if people didnt use them. 100% kids in Germany watch him in German.

>>214589345
>when you don't understand what I'm saying you still pretend that you do so you don't look like a fool
I do that too

>No, Adolf Hitler did not speak English fluently—or even conversationally. His primary language was German, and while he may have had limited exposure to other languages like French or English through media or schooling, he never developed proficiency in them.
>There are accounts, such as one from Deborah Cavendish, who met Hitler alongside her sister Unity Mitford, that confirm he relied entirely on others to communicate with English speakers. Unity, who spoke German, did all the talking during their meeting, while Deborah and her mother couldn’t converse with him due to the language barrier.
>Interestingly, some sources suggest Hitler occasionally watched English and French films in their original languages before the war, possibly to absorb cultural cues or for propaganda analysis—but this didn’t translate into actual language skills.
>So while he may have had passive exposure, there's no credible evidence that Hitler could speak or understand English in any meaningful way.

looks like Germans have always been like that

>>214588956
>>214589028
Bodied that freak

>>214591586
you dont have to believe me, but AI doesnt think and it will just shoot the next token where the probability lies and this will cause issues

it is always very obvious what is AI translated stuff and what is not

>>214591722
>it is always very obvious what is AI translated stuff and what is not
i tell you, give it 5 years and it's over for Finnish

>>214591704
>80 years later german are still following in their fuhrers footsteps
problematic

>>214588729 (OP)
That's strange. Of the international people I interact with in my work, Germans are at close to the top when it comes to English communication.

Worst by far are Arabs. I suppose I should be happy that a lot of them actually prefer to learn and use Swedish over English, especially since a lot of other immigrants just seem to stick with English forever after learning a few keywords. But it's just shocking how bad they are at it.

>>214591704
German had the same place as English during those times in academics and anything like that so its not weird

>>214591773
Where would you put Koreans and Japanese?

>>214591484
car=regulated, has to follow traffic laws
you=not regulated, dont have to follow traffic laws you just walk around freely (outside of highways they are specificly made for cars)
a red light at a crossing only show that if you walk anyway the blame is on you if you get hit by a car, just like if you cross a road in bumfuck nowhere, you look for cars and if its clear you cross. a green means the driver is to blame if he hit you. and none of that really matters, the car wins anyway and you are lucky to survive, so you need to check for cars anyway.

>>214590601
Wtf happened

>>214591773
The same in Germany, barely any Muslims speak English here.

>>214591780
i doubt Hitler would know it even if English was the main language used in science back in his days, he didn't even pass the entrance exam to the uni

>>214591515
we dont take euro in norway. card please? or do i have to call the police?

>>214591148
>orange women.
Why this happens in Scandinavia?

>>214588729 (OP)
How mutually intelligible is German and Swedish?

>>214591773
one time I spoke to an Tajik in a swimming hall in English because in IT I have become way too used to non-white person -> doesnt speak Finnish and he looked so sad when I spoke to him in English. He spoke Finnish fluently.

>>214591939
Barely

>>214591921
They support Trumpkin in body and spirit

>>214591939
About as much as German and English or German and French

>>214591939
I really fucking wish French was still the lingua franca of the world. Not this Mon dieu la creature, Germanic/French bastard mongol language

>Euros cock gobbling my language and insulting other euros with "you don't speak American"
Ahhh. Being the global hegemon feels good.

>>214591977
>>214591997
do you understand Danish better by chance?

>>214591617
This seems like the kind of thing can't be known and can't be generalized either.
In general finns will have more exposure to english content but not in a meaningful way by the time they finish Schule and the German will have an easier time picking up Englisch because many Wörter haben den selben germanischen Ursprung

In any case that's nothing that would justify the arrogance of OP, pretending that Germans can't speak English

>>214591420
A 40 old in Leipzig working as a cellphone store clerk went to school when they still taught russian and was 10 years out of education when social media became popular

>>214592024
....so you can communicate with more niggers? I don't understand.

>>214591896
Sorry m8. Have this.

>>214591997
Which Germanic language could Germans understand the best? Dutch?

>>214591939
I can read a swedish newspaper article and get the main gist of it despite never learning a word of it

>>214592121
Same

>>214591977
Wrong


Example:

English:
"Germany has a stronger economy than both Sweden and Finland."

German:
"Deutschland hat eine stärkere Wirtschaft als sowohl Schweden als auch Finnland."

Swedish:
"Tyskland har en starkare ekonomi än både Sverige och Finland."

Danish:
"Tyskland har en stærkere økonomi end både Sverige og Finland."

>>214591840
Petty good, but I think it's a given since I assume only the most "internationally inclined" East Asians ever bother moving to somewhere like Sweden. Haven't talked to a lot of Koreans though, mostly Japanese and Chinese. A lot of Chinese seem to prefer to use Swedish, even if they are so hard to understand you wish they would just switch to English.

Also, I will say despite their reputation Japanese people have been surprisingly rude and entitled in my interactions, nowhere near some nationalities of course, but still a bit surprising.

>>214588729 (OP)
germany is the main character of europe and we must all show them kindness

>>214592186
Dutch is the most similar when written but when spoken Swedish and Norwegian are easier to understand.
Still when I hear Durch people on the train I can understand what they are talking about despite not being able to talk to them in Dutch in the slightest

>>214592126
welp apparently PISA will start taking English scores in 2025 so we shall see if you are correct that Germans actually speak better English than Swedes or Finns
I highly doubt it. I would be very shit at English without internet and if you are able to live in a non-English bubble when you play games, browse the internet etc. then you have no way to learn English properly

>>214589378
they are poor shitholes we dont trade with
sweden and germany trade alot
faggot

>>214592234
>economy
>Wirtschaft
why are Germans like this
why do you always have to be so original

>>214592333
>are able to
Again, doesn't mean that people actually do it

>>214592353
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Poland?useskin=vector
>Main export partners
>Germany 27.8%
>Czech Republic 6.6%

>>214592121
No, only neighbouring language thats somewhat easy to understand is dutch

>>214592234
I wish English was mutually intelligible with other Germanic languages. I can’t make anything out other than French/Latin words. And even then, there are a fuck ton of false cognates (To bless != the French verb blesser)

>>214592380
then its rude
I can understand if you are in Mallorca in some kind of hotel where they might try to serve you that way, but otherwise? Rude.

>>214588729 (OP)
>Fucking analbanians with half of their teeth rotted out speak better english than you.
There's a bit of survivor biais there, any German can travel to Sweden, only wealthy educated/expatriate *lbanians can

>>214592399
can you read?

>>214592399
German is second most popular language in Poland and most Poles learn it at school, also many people are quite proficient (+ we have huge diaspora in Germany)

>>214591312
>You have to actually search these to activate them
I literally cannot deactivate it without creating a YouTube account(I won't)
Everything is translated into english here

>>214592234
>L’Allemagne a un économie plus fort que la Suède et la Finlande

:)

>>214592566
I would guess that your operating system is set to English then, it might be a workaround to change it

>>214592126
Neither he nor anybody else in East Germany speaks Russian, besides the Russian Germans. I know it because Russian is my native language. Here's an example of East Germans """"speaking"""" Russian: me and my mates stand in a bank talking to each other. An old 60yo German turns around and in poor English starts making a small talk with us, I ask him what languages he speaks and he gave me the usual: German, English, Russian. But somehow the old dude did not recognize that we were speaking pure Russian and misstook us for Romanian speakers, how do you "learn" Russian without even recognizing real Russian speech is beyond me

>>214591704
Everyone was like that except upper class

>>214592726
Did I say that I would expect him to speak your poverty gobble?
I said they taught it at school, not that anyone had even the slightest interest in learning it or the misfortune to have to use it
you should be shot by the way

>>214592997
>butthurt Kraut reveals his colours once an auslander ousts illiteracy of his people

>>214592726
>But somehow the old dude did not recognize that we were speaking pure Russian and misstook us for Romanian speakers, how do you "learn" Russian without even recognizing real Russian speech is beyond me

This isn't impossible, some English accents can be easily confused for some other language at first glance even by those who speak English very well.

>>214588729 (OP)
Send them back to Mallorca where they belong.

And build some balconies for the anglos.

>>214593138
That's the difference between Russian and English or German, there's almost no local dialects in Russian language, unless you speak to Caucasians or Asians. Even most Belarusians and Ukrainians speak Russian pure enough that you won't spot the difference without C2 proficiency. Zelenskyi speaks Russian absolutely the same way as anybody who grew up in Russia, just like Lukashenko

We need another thirty years war to once again enrich them with german scat culture

>>214591859
But there's the green and red lights for walkers too

>>214593591
red
>walk at your own risk
green
>cars should stop for you, you are supposed to be safe
never seen orange walking lights

>>214588729 (OP)
What happens if it's night-time and the traffic lights stop functioning normally and instead start blinking red, how does the germbrain react in this situation?

>>214588729 (OP)
I was rarely so proud of my people as I am after hearing this

>>214593776
>Stop
>Drive
>Stop
>Drive
>Stop
>Drive

I still remember being at the camping ground outside Ålborg in Denmark, 1995. They had bunnies there, I clearly remember the german tard kids throwing the baby bunnies up in the air. Repulsive people, the germans.

>>214593591
and here is the important difference
>break traffic laws in a car
>you have by getting your license agreed that you understand traffic rules and will follow them.
>breaking them is against said agreement and will get legal reactions.
there is no such thing for walking around.

I expected swedes and norwegians to be like kith and kin to germans but I'm getting hostile vibes itt

>>214594459
Germans aren't well liked anymore since they fucked up our and the norgayans electricity prices

>>214591921
it onyl sweden. For some reason they are obsessed with fake tan

>>214591406
>>214591456
The main benefit of learning a language at school is that you will have a very easy time picking it up again if you ever need it
Of course you forget a language that you don't use, but it will not be fully gone

>>214593776
we normally just join the moths and flock around the light

>>214589345
How it it that Wypipo spend far less time studying for tests and have much less draconian education systems than East Asians that give their students mental illness and suicidal impulses because they're forced to study 12 hours per day for shit like the Gaokao, but wypipo still get the same test scores or even better in international rankings. What causes this? Are wypipo genes really that strong?

>>214595078
genes? no
>you selected this study and we will help you get through it
vs
>we selected this study for you and you better make it or else...
greatly exaggerated but real enough to make an impact on statistics.

>>214592419
Don't forget Luxembourgish

>>214595078
you're allowed and encouraged to ask questions when you don't understand something because others probably didn't understand it either instead of having to wait 10 hours to ask a night tutor the question while you didn't understand the rest of the lesson and need to catch up later

>>214590601
>>214590494
kek the fuck takeshi gonna do?

>>214593286
>just like Lukashenko
Can't agree, Lukashenko has a very clear accent. He pronounces 'g' as 'h' and final 'ov' as 'ou'.

Zelensky is a skilled actor, so that's a different story.

>>214595384
Lol fair

>>214595723
Lukashenko puts on an act to appease Belarusians and look like a funny kind uncle rather than a brutal dictator he is.

>>214595779
>appease Belarusians
I don't think it would appease Belarussians, actually most Belarussians don't like their accent, they think it sounds "village" and try to get rid of it. Young Belarussians don't even have it anymore.
And you can kinda see that Lukashenko tries to speak without an accent too, he often starts his speeches speaking more standard Russian, but once he proceeds, gets more emotional and forgets about the way he speaks, then he unconsciously returns to his native Belarussian accent.


>a funny kind uncle rather than a brutal dictator he is.

He is just both at once, it's not contradictory. Same like many cruel Nazis who beat and torture Jewish kids to death at their shift in a concentration camp, would return home and suddenly turn into best husbands, dads, grandfathers to their own family.

>>214588729 (OP)
>English
>the international language
Congrats on being cucked by Anglos.

>>214589082
>we can both cross the road on a red light (just loon for cars, no cars = clear to pass)
>>214591484
>>214591859
>>214593591
>>214593721
>>214594365
I've noticed this varies a lot by region in the US. In New York we cross the street where and when we like, but when I'm in California people act like I'm crazy for following common sense over the lights.

>>214590902
>I think AI translates even smaller languages very well
At least for Esperanto it still makes some mistakes and often outputs translations that don't feel very natural.

>>214591199
The version I heard ends "Well, there aren't many black people in Russia." (Fun fact, apparently at least Polish TV series from the 80s had a black character played by a white actor in blackface, not because they were opposed to hiring a black actor but because they just couldn't get one.)

>>214594365
It feels wrong tho

>>214591598
Very true.

>>214591704
Hitler wasn't even German, he was Austrian.

>>214590601
Fuckin Germans. They're really no better than their islander cousins (Britons), are they?

>>214592435
Try Anglish.

>>214593286
Yeah, because of Soviet mandatory universal education. All the nation-states of Europe have been slowly wiping out their regional dialects since some time in the 18th or 19th century, the Soviets just did it more efficiently.

>>214594459
Related languages doesn't necessarily mean that much. How much do you have in common with Armenians? Theirs is the closest living language to Greek (other than other Hellenic languages like Tsakonian).

>>214591704
I guess he didn't hit the 10k hours of AEATT (All English All The Time) or AFATT (All French All The Time) with i+1 content. Then again, it was a bit harder to do that back when TV was just emerging and the only radio signals people could pick up from afar were faint AM radio station signals with extremely poor audio quality.

>>214588729 (OP)
Germans are also terrible at driving despite producing some of the finest of automobiles somehow

>Fun fact, apparently at least Polish TV series from the 80s had a black character played by a white actor in blackface, not because they were opposed to hiring a black actor but because they just couldn't get one.)
Not true, we had a lot of movies featuring black characters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ckd8SacXAw

>>214601113
btw, there were always a few black guys in eastern European countries during the cold war, because communist governments offered them free studies

>>214601113
I just remember reading about one series that did it.