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(09-12-2016, 05:39 PM)Cath Wrote: As much as I suck at German, I find this tongue really interesting. It requires rigor to learn and I like to discover the meaning of words, because German words have a meaning when translated bit by bit. Like Handschuhe, which literally means shoes for hands, but it's translated as gloves. Fantastic, don't you think?!

I love my language and the mostly single special meaning of the words ( each thing has normally its own word with just this one meaning )
and you can express with one word just this special thing or circumstances without looong explanations ;-)
french feels for me as a more "describing" language ;-))
and with english: the sometimes different meanings and uses of so much words, having to read the sense from context ...
so i have sometimes (mostly when sentences arent clear formulated) 2 or even more different possible meanings after my translation ;-))
and google isnt a big help while translating word for word ;-))

and some expressions you cant translate (word for word)
"i make me me nothing you nothing out of the dust.. " would be a (joke) translation for "ich mache mich mir nichts dir nichts aus dem Staub"
and means simply said ... to flee or disappear ;-))