I could use some good vibes Loungers

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

Since HerrHerr died I've had to deal with this government agency called the ARGE. They help with my rent and they are paying for my intensive German course. I am so thankful to live in a country that will take care of sad sacks like me. I have 4 months to become fluent in German so that I can get a fucking job. I need all the prayers and vibes I can get.

[ceile]

1. Goodluck!

:hi:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

2. Thank you ceile

I need all the luck I can get! :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear theNotoriousP.I.G.!

Major vibes incoming for you, sweetie!

I'm glad you have this agency to help you...but I'm sorry you have to become fluent in German in four months.

Hugs and vibes to you, sweetie...

:hug: :hug:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

4. Thanks Peg

like I said, I need all the prayers and vibes in the world to become fluent in 4 months! Your vibes and hugs help me. I use them as confidence builders when I'm sitting in class thinking negative thoughts. :hug:

[redwitch]

5. You can do this!

Gesundheit!

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

6. I love you woman!

Ich bin gesund aber ich brauche vielen glück!

[redwitch]

9. Oh Jeez! Off I go to Babelfish.

:-)

[redwitch]

10. I'm glad you are healthy.

That was the extent of my German. I was hoping it worked for healthy people too. :-)

[livetohike]

7. You can do this and you will do this!

Sending good vibes that your lessons come easy and just practice speaking with anyone you meet. The more you talk in every day conversation, the easier it will be :-)

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

25. Thank you livetohike

I'm getting better every day :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. Gefühl zu dir, theNotoriousP.I.G.

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Immerse yourself in the language -- do your best not to USE any English
in your day-to-day activities. Many of my friends were German, I married
a German woman, we only got German TV, and we lived in a German
neighborhood, not the American enclave.
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I know many (most?) Germans speak English -- try not to use that as a
crutch -- see if you can get them to tell you the words you are seeking
without asking for them in English.
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After a lot of exposure and bar German, I took about 4-6 months worth of
night school classes and became proficient enough where I probably could
have gotten a factory job, if not an office one.
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Now... after 35 years of NOT speaking it, Ich sauge. (schlucke?)
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Vibes to you.
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[MissHoneychurch]

12. You suck???

:spray: :rofl:

Sorry .... couldn't resist.


Of course you don't suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :loveya:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

15. Why you!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

19. MiddleFingerMom saugt und bläst,

wo Mutti sonst nur saugen kann. ;)

[MissHoneychurch]

22. LOL

:rofl:

Ahhh .... somehow those get inside jokes for the two of us and Heidi .... :rofl:

[MiddleFingerMom]

23. And I'm not 100% sure what bläst means, but I'm PRETTY damned sure...

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...that it would complete the old joke, "SAUGHT, dammit, SAUGHT!!! Bläst is just a figure of speech!!!
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[MissHoneychurch]

24. blasen means blow

as a verb.

As a noun (die Blase/n) it means blisters .....

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. Danke, Fraulein Honigkirche...

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...then I believe I've just told my first bilingual dirty joke in over 35 years.
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(Though the verb tense was wrong.)
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:hi:
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[MissHoneychurch]

30. Glad to be of help

:D

[MiddleFingerMom]

21. Meine Deutschesprache saugt. ERLICH saugt. n/t

[Call Me Wesley]

42. Here's the joke. Unfortunately, no translation available.

It's a vacuum cleaner that sucks and blows where mom only sucks ... It's a classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aksjhtIhfqg&feature=player_detailpage#t=156s

[Sky Masterson]

11. You can do it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7CaiWxKYBo
You've got the Eye of the Tiger!

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

35. Fellow Gemini

I may have the Eye of the Tiger but I need the luck of the Irish to pull this one off. :)

[Sky Masterson]

37. My Irish is all but used up.

But since today is My Late Irish Moms birthday I will send you vibes in her honor.
:) You will get this because you know that you have to! It's a Gemini thing..We don't go out easy.
:)

[Bertha Venation]

13. You'll do fine, just fine!

Just keep working hard, and remember:

Du bist meine Großmom.

(I don't know if I spelled it correctly and I think it's low German. It's the only phrase of German I remember; we said it over and over to her when she was in the home with Alzheimer's. She kept asking who we were to her.)

Edit: Oh, yeah, vibes aplenty to you. :hug:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

29. Thanks Bertha

:hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

14. Girlfriend

4 months are enough to learn a decent German. Also, when you go shopping talk only German. Even if you feel stupid and the people want to talk English to you. Request to speak German. That helpsa lot.

Willst Du, dass ich ab jetzt nur Deutsch mit Dir spreche?

:loveya: :hug: :thumbsup:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

18. Naturlich!

mein schatze! Bitte nur Deutsch! :loveya:

[suninvited]

16. Good luck learning German

and finding a job!

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

20. Thank you suninvited

Both seem kind of impossible at the moment but I'm trying for both with all my heart.

[Call Me Wesley]

17. Good vibes coming.

Four months is quite enough. Heck, I was fluent in it when I started to talk! :P

:hug:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

32. Why I oughta!

:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[Call Me Wesley]

43. Do you learn high-German or Bavarian-German?

The latter would be so much easier. Just mutter something, and everyone will be like: "Jo wos, I amol, gspürtah is! Gehn ma wos oozapft is!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocx2CuNjXrc

Sau Preissn!

[Kali]

45. !

:spray: :rofl:

you deserve that spanking!

[texanwitch]

26. You can do it.

I know you can.

:woohoo: :applause:

[trof]

27. All I know about German pronunciation:

an 'ie' word is pronounced 'ee'.
an 'ei' word is pronounced 'eye'.
Stein = styne
Stien = steen
Good luck and all the best.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

31. That ie and ei shit is really tricky

for an English speaker, that's for sure.

[trof]

33. Where are you located?

I spent a couple of months based in Munich back in my airline days.
My 'menu' German got to be passable.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

36. I'm in Munich

I can read a menu, order food, ask questions in the grocery store, tell people about myself and ask questions of others but I don't know the grammar very well. I'm learning it now though!

[trof]

39. What's your situation?

I haven't been around DU much lately.
What's the deal?
BTW, I really enjoyed my time in Munchen.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

50. up shit creek

unemployed widow. The good news is that I was too advanced in German to start at the beginning of a six month course so I was advanced to level 3. The bad news is that now I have only 4 months to become fluent enough to get a job!

[MissHoneychurch]

51. Are class and teacher better?

from what you told from the first class, that was horror.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

53. Way better!

Ich habe noch eine Leherin. The other people in the class can actually speak German too. :hi: :loveya: :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

55. Das ist sehr gut!!!!

Je mehr Du Deutsch sprechen mußt, desto schneller lernst Du es!!!!!!

[MissHoneychurch]

34. One hint I can give you

if you don't know that case already ....

nach a, o, u sprichst du das ch im Rachen.

nach e und i sprichst du das ch vorn im Mund

Bach, Buch, hoch

frech, Fichte

Es ist immer so.

Hope that helps.

[Moondog]

38. Those intensive / immersion type language courses are quite effective.

Went through one a number of years ago when I was working for Uncle. And I never really did well in high school or college language courses, which used a totally different approach. So, I thought, I really didn't have a gift for picking up languages. It turns out that it was the teaching method used in my high school and college courses that weren't so gifted.

You'll do fine. The best of luck to you.

[sarge43]

40. Good vibrations on their way. n/t

[bluesbassman]

41. Good vibes to you Notorious.

I learned enough to keep out of most trouble when I was stationed there. Wish I'd kept it up. You'll do fine! Viel glück mein freund. :)

[lunatica]

44. You can do it. Just practice, practice, practice.

Watch a lot of German TV so you can familiarize your ear. And good luck!

[Luciferous]

46. You can do it! Good luck :)

[Kali]

47. buena suerte!

sorry, I can barely do Spanish and I practically live in Mexico. One of my best friends is German and even after traveling with her and other Germans for ~ 20 years I barely have a half dozen words (all pronounced wrong, I am sure):rofl:

I bet you are doing fine though - HAVING to use a second language is the best way to acquire it - :toast:

[Demoiselle]

48. Prayers, vibes coming at you! All the best, Notorious...

[foxfeet]

49. Good vibes en route!

Und viel Glueck!

[MiddleFingerMom]

52. I wish I had something really obnoxious -- I'd tell you it was appropriate for addressing old ladies

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Once, in a Czech gasthaus, this older couple came in with a daughter about my age
(18 or so at the time). We all spoke in our limited knowledges of Czech, German
and English. I wanted to go old school and ask the parents if I could take their
daughter out to dinner.
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I asked my Czech buddies how to ask this and they told me. I went back to their
table and repeated the words and watched in shock as they got angry and hustled
their daughter out of that gasthaus, looking at me in disgust. My Czech buddies
were HOWLING.
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Mom and Dad must've had no sense of humor whatsoever. For, instead of asking in
Czechoslovakian for permission to take their daughter out, I had very earnestly
and innocently told them (probably fairly crudely) that their daughter had breasts
like the Alps.
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Fucking Czech buddies.
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[spinbaby]

54. Viel Glück

Don't you wish they had one of those science-fictionish pills you could take to learn the language?

[av8rdave]

56. Best vibes sent!

Hope you're fluent and employed soon!

[Callalily]

57. I am confident that you

will be successful with your German studies as well as finding a job.

And . . . sending vibes too!

:hug:

[GoCubsGo]

58. Good luck!

You're going to make me really jealous, because I wish I could speak German like you. You'll do fine.