Searching for words in German

deletedBANNED user 2 yearss ago:

Hi dear members of Scrabbin,

I am a great fan of languages, I think everyone here is it.
And I would like to ask you something. I plan to do a small book about German words seen by native speakers of another language.
Do you speak German but your mother language is different from German?
Tell me about your first German words, that seemed to you strange/beautyful/ugly/whatever. Tell me a story about anything you remember which has to do with these words? The book will be structured as a dictionary, as a guide to wonder about language and to present it as something which doesn't belong to a single nation. Write me on my personal scrabbin profile or in this discussion, I could also call you up later. THANKS!!

Tine

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Anmeldung, really ugly and meant hours of headaches when I first got here.
Noch eins, music to my ears. Smilie

Ben commented 2 yearss ago

Entschuldigen.

it took me about two weeks after i got to germany to force that word out of my mouth. i could not for the life of me get all those consonants to come together into one smooth word. but now it is proof that i am slowly learning and i like the way it rolls off my tongue.

Ella Weitzman commented 2 yearss ago

Yeah, entschuldigung is one of the first words I've learnt... And then Ich spreche nicht deutsch! Smilie

Another word (I learnt it yesterday) is schicksal. Very strange that a concept so difficult is said in a so funny way, or at least in a way that seems so funny to me. It looks like we're talking of a sausage: "Can I have a schicksal mit curry?"

Alessandro commented 2 yearss ago

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung!
i still have some trouble just pronouncing it....let alone getting the spelling right for it....

Aaron Bellomy commented 2 yearss ago

nice new words,

gummistiefel
wortschatz
trinkgeld
zefix
umgebung
shoen

Sunny Khalsa commented 2 yearss ago

oh yes and...

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Smilie

Sunny Khalsa commented 2 yearss ago

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