Parlez-vous francais?

[DragonMage]

Originally posted by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon: Actuall, all the possibilities you mentioned are just fine, for friends the bit you said in the earlier post would be: I danke DIR vielmals. duly noted. But, I am really truly and very much impressed with your German ? Awwww, shucks! I do try. Care for some private lessons ? Extraordinary talent deserves special fostering - in any field ! Sure! Ich stehe einen grasig Feld - mit eine Decke. (?) *wicked grin*

psst: did I get that right?


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[DragonMage]

Originally posted by Neb: How about online lessons? I know we're at least 3 or 4 danes here on the board, and maybe some of the other scandinavians here like WOLFGIR also know some danish, I bet we could manage to teach you danish in a year, maybe half a year if we're lucky.

That sounds lovely! I can pick it up as you all have time! This way when I visit the 'motherland' (my father's family, including me, is only third or fourth generation American - they came here from Holland) - I can have some idea of what I'm doing.

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Alureth...Dragon friend of Breanna, Mage and Advisor in the Court of Lady Lioness

Co-Owner/Operator of the Evil Petting Zoo and devout member of the HADB clan.
Commander of the Dragon Fleet, IW Peacekeeping Force
Sublime Sister of the Illuminati - may the Light shine forever!
Second Historian and Scribe of IW. Mother Hen of IW.
Mage extraordinair, Pin-Up Girl for the OLD-COOTS
Magey-Wagey: performer in the Nekked Dancing Trio of the ORT.

Hopeless Romantic *sigh*

Wenn ich Zeit habe, spiele ich Tennis.

That's as far as I know in German.


Excuse me everyone. I left for three hours and you already filled the topic I created with 50 replies? It's a success. I'm flattened.

[Neb]

Originally posted by DragonMage: That sounds lovely! I can pick it up as you all have time! This way when I visit the 'motherland' (my father's family, including me, is only third or fourth generation American - they came here from Holland) - I can have some idea of what I'm doing.

Well, what english phrase(s) would you like to learn the danish version(s) of?

[DragonMage]

Originally posted by mitsos: Wenn ich Zeit habe, spiele ich Tennis. That's as far as I know in German.

Ich mochte Tennis sehr gern!!!!


Neb: How about these: I would like to buy some cheese. Where is the nearest chocolate shop? and Can you please help me? (These will probably come in handy for my trip.)

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Alureth...Dragon friend of Breanna, Mage and Advisor in the Court of Lady Lioness

Co-Owner/Operator of the Evil Petting Zoo and devout member of the HADB clan.
Commander of the Dragon Fleet, IW Peacekeeping Force
Sublime Sister of the Illuminati - may the Light shine forever!
Second Historian and Scribe of IW. Mother Hen of IW.
Mage extraordinair, Pin-Up Girl for the OLD-COOTS
Magey-Wagey: performer in the Nekked Dancing Trio of the ORT.

Hopeless Romantic *sigh*

[Neb]

Originally posted by DragonMage: Ich mochte Tennis sehr gern!!!! Neb: How about these: I would like to buy some cheese. Where is the nearest chocolate shop? and Can you please help me? (These will probably come in handy for my trip.)

"I would like to buy some cheese."
"Jeg vil gerne köbe noger ost."
(Notice the two little dots above one of the "o"'s, this is in fact a special danish letter which is: "ø" not sure if it will show up though, the bulletin board dislikes some of these special danish letters.)

"Where is the nearest chocolate shop?"
"Hvor er den nærmeste forretning hvor kan jeg købe noget schokolade?"
(This one has been altered a bit since we don't really have any stores in Denmark that only sell chocolate and sweets, I altered it to the danish equivalent of: "Where is the nearest store in which I can buy some chocolate?")

"Can you please help me?"
"Kan de hjaelpe mig?"
(I used the formal version here, for the less formal version of the phrase, replace "de" with "du", the "ae" is in fact a special danish letter, which is "æ" I'm not sure if it will show up correctly though.)

[DragonMage]

Nice! Now - on pronunciation - is your 'j' like the German 'j' - pronounced like American 'y'? Also, the 'v' - is it pronounced? and if so is it like very or like an American 'f'? Also, in hjaelpe, is the last 'e' pronounced?

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[Neb]

Originally posted by DragonMage: Nice! Now - on pronunciation - is your 'j' like the German 'j' - pronounced like American 'y'? Also, the 'v' - is it pronounced? and if so is it like very or like an American 'f'? Also, in hjaelpe, is the last 'e' pronounced? [This message has been edited by DragonMage (edited 10-16-2001).]

The "j", is pronounced like the german one, the "v" is not pronounced like an "f", I can't really sure how to explain how you pronounce the last "e" in hjaelpe.... Ah! I've got it, you know the word "failure" right? Now, the "u" in "failure", I believe that's the closest thing I can find in english to describe how to pronounce that "e", not sure if there's something closer though, but I don't think so.



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[Ramon de Ramon y Ramon]

Originally posted by DragonMage: psst: did I get that right?

You got it very right ! But don't you think it would be more interesting if you brought a chandelier instead of a blanket ?

(I cannot believe I made three major mistakes in a post correcting you !

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Btw, the cow is queuing in the slaughterhouse right now !

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[DragonMage]

Originally posted by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon: You got it very right ! But don't you think it would be more interesting if you brought a chandelier instead of a blanket ? (I cannot believe I made three major mistakes in a post correcting you ! )

Whatever would we do with a chandelier in a field????

As to errors - I don't point fingers at those trying to help me.

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Alureth...Dragon friend of Breanna, Mage and Advisor in the Court of Lady Lioness

Co-Owner/Operator of the Evil Petting Zoo and devout member of the HADB clan.
Commander of the Dragon Fleet, IW Peacekeeping Force
Sublime Sister of the Illuminati - may the Light shine forever!
Second Historian and Scribe of IW. Mother Hen of IW.
Mage extraordinair, Pin-Up Girl for the OLD-COOTS
Magey-Wagey: performer in the Nekked Dancing Trio of the ORT.

Hopeless Romantic *sigh*