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haven't a clue about that one.

So what's alcohol poisoning then?? hmm hmm??

The same as alcoholic intoxication I guess... But that's not the place to discuss your English thesaurus!!!!!

*wanders in to catch up on her German learny-ness*

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*blinks*

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I didn't get enough sleep last night for this. *groans*

chimney sweeper - der Schornsteinfeger


http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2207288 - einige deutsche Traditionen an Silvester, obwohl ich persönlich nie Bleigießen gemacht habe.Aber ich gucke jedes Jahr Freddy Frinton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2207288 - some German traditions on New Year's eve, although I personally have never done the lead-thing.But I do watch Freddy Frinton every year

*returns from Sydney* Hmmm... well there's clearly been a lot of conversation and fine learning in here since I was last here. *rolls eyes*

Hush we're working out a lesson for you, and I have to work it out in English before we can do it in German and it's surprisingly more difficult in English

Besides, where's Chris? For that matter....where's any of our German students?

*shrugs* Chris is uhhhh.......... somewhere?

I have a couple of questions about pronounciation 'cause for this year of German at school we has to get a German/English dictionary, and I have been flipping through it, and while doing so I realised there are a couple of things I don't know how to say. First of all, "y", I only saw it in a couple of words, and I can't remember what they were, but I think one was the German word for guy and it possibly had a "t" in it too... And also "oo", which I saw in the wrod "U-Boot" which I thought was a very cute looking word, and my sister agreed. Anyway, sorry about bugging you with this. *goes off to bed*

I suppose the word for „guy“ you’re looking for is „der Typ“. Here the “y” is pronounced like the German “ü”. Some more examples:

die Mystik – mysticism
mystisch – mystic
die Lyrik – lyric (poetry)
lyrisch – lyrical
die Myrrhe – myrrh



When it stands the beginning of words it’s pronounced like the German “j” (= like the English “y” in the following cases):
Yoga – yoga
Yak – yak



U-Boot: the “oo” is simply pronounced like the German “o”…similar to the English “o” in “more”, but not at all like the English “oo” in “rubber boot”.
(“U” stands for “Untersee” by the way (=under the sea), so U-Boot is an abbreviation for “Unterseeboot”. This is similar to “U-Bahn”: here the “U” stands for “Untergrund” (=underground), and means underground/subway.)


Any more questions?

Glad you knew what Dani meant, I wondered about a y and a t in 'Junge' (boy), which was the only word that popped up in my mind when I read the posting this afternoon

My dictionary gave me a helping hand. The first word for “guy” that came into my mind was “der Kerl”. Not too many “t”s and “y”s in there either!

What scared me is that U-boot is cute!!

How can a submarine be cute ?

Exactly! Mein Vater hat im U-boot gehabt und er hasst es. Just a bit of German thrown in there

(My father has been in a submarine and he hated it).
He was a submariner for 10 years.

I think Dani was alluding to the word itself, what it looks like, the order of letters, maybe the "U" followed by a hyphen...

correction:

Mein Vater war in einem U-Boot und er hasste es.


We all live in a yellow submarine... I bet he hates that song!

Ja aber jetz hasst er mich und meine Mutter...actually I'll email you about that maybe...not everyone wants to hear perhaps. Although I've already splashed it everywhere. Oh stuff it whatever.

It must be claustrophobic in a submarine

Es muss claustrophobisch sein in einem U-Boot

Yeah, I was saying that the word "U-Boot" looked cute, not that submarines are cute... although they can be cute, like if they're in a cartoon then they are, and also when you're talking about how an ostrich in a bush looks like there's a submarine, and the next is the periscope.

Hmmm.... *runs off to find her dictionary to find the word she was ranting about earlier* Aha! der Typ, the guy. *smiles and is glad she didn't imagine the word.

*blushes 'cause she didn't notice that the word was mentioned at the start of the post with the pronounciation stuff* Ignore me... *blushes some more*