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[wickedflea]

I took four semesters of German (with about a five-year break between II and III) and can't remember anything except "Ich habe kopfschmerzen" (I have a headache) and "Ich fühle mich hundsmiserable" (I'm sick as a dog).

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[fls.livejournal.com]

I had a roommate in college who took 12 years, whose Mom was a high school German teacher for cryin' out loud, and he remembered enough to pass out of exactly one quarter of college German.

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

all i remember is how to say (but not spell) the "tv is broken again."

der ferenzerapharat ist weider kaput, or something.
in dutch, it's het televisie is kaput. much easier.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Maybe if I'd grown up with such a background I would have been able to do even worse. :)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I always liked the verb fernsehen! Makes me think of someone sitting around watching a houseplant--which, if you're in the right state of mind, is surprisingly fun. ;)

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Those Germans have a different word for everything.

I learned to read academic German from scratch in less than ten weeks. I remember almost nothing. But I passed the exam (3 hrs of translating an essay - don't ask).

But I find your quotes MUCH more useful.

As seen on Monty Python

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

My dog has no nose! How does he smell?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Eccch, reading exams--the very thought scares me! Foreign language ones, I mean. :)

[trivial-things.livejournal.com]

My buddy Ward Ebersole back in German II with Blaney used to make obsessive use of the word Hund, mostly in contexts where the Hund had to be female. Wir hatten Spaß, der Semester.