Deutsch Killer nº1

[Markus]

Oh Regina Malissima Germanica Mea,

you're right, "Blechbläser" is not the word you're looking for. A Blechbläser is indeed a person playing a brass instrument. The translations you are seeking are:

heavy metal - Heavy Metal
metal - Metal

That's all!

"Heavy Metal" is occasionally used as a generic term for all genres of metal music. But usually - especially among metal-listeners - "Metal" is used as the generic term. In both cases you don't add "Musik" - "metal (music)" is just "Metal". By the way, the pronounciation is the same as in English - the words were simply imported from English.

Some examples are:

"Hallo. Ich bin die allerböseste Königin und höre gern Metal."
"Metal ist meine Lieblingsmusik seit ich drei Jahre alt war."
"Nu Metal ist gar kein richtiger Metal."
"Meine Nachbarn mögen keinen Metal. Das sind Vollpfosten und Spacken!"

Cheers!

Markus

[Luth]

Oooh... I should have known! The easier is usually the righter!! 

Btw... the only sentence I don't fully understand is the last one. I think I'll say the one about listening metal since the 3 years old, though (although it would be better to say the truth: I didn't started until the 25. Even weirdest, in my opinion).

Ok, a gift for your help today!

[Markus]

Oh meine allerböseste deutschsprachige Königin,

those were examples, not recommendations. I'm not recommending you to introduce yourself as "most evil queen", to antedate your discovery of metal by 22 years or to call your neighbours "complete and total idiots".

In fact, I did mean to teach you some commonly used swear words and insults with the last sentence. Who knows when you might need some?

Good luck with your little speech!

And thanks for the cartoon. Funny indeed, I like this kind of humour. Where do you get these from?

Cheers!

Markus

[Luth]

Oh, really? Are you so evil that you almost made me saying those things at class? 

(as I said, I undestood all except the two bad words of the sentence... and I already saw which was the general intention of the words  ).

These jokes are taken from Facebook, a group called "Alemán para todos" ("Deutsch für Alle" in Spanish). 

[Markus]

I was trusting in your ability to understand my examples and in your prudence not to repeat any sentences you don't understand.

Keep posting some of these cartoons every now and then, please!

Cheers!

Markus

[Luth]

Don't worry... I'll post the jokes that I find funny... and I understand!! (some are of higher level... ).

Markus... What concept do you think I have of you? That I'd repeat something you said me to say at class, without checking and double-checking its meaning?

















































 

[Luth]

Today I've brought the joke to class. Ok, yes, it us fun. If I have to judge by my teacher's reaction, it's good! 

[Markus]

What did she do? Collapse with a laughter, getting back up after quarter an hour, desperately gasping for air?

But yeah, it's the kind of humour I like and I hope you'll share more of these.

Cheers!

Markus

[Luth]

Not exactly... but I think it was a very "German laugh": it was an impressive, in two-times laugh. Like...

HAAAA - HA!!!

Strong, quick and hard. As a good German laugh must be. 

And yes, I plan to bring more jokes like that... only I have to find them first. And it's not so easy,,, 

[Markus]

Oh most evil queen,

you shouted: "... du hast ein PM (sorry if it's not "ein", but I have not arrived to that grammatical point yet)." In fact, that's a pretty good question! So let's get to this point now.

Actually, there is no fixed grammatical gender for "PM" or "private message" because it's a word from a foreign language that's not integrated into German. Neuter would work, so your sentence was correct! But mostly one would use it as feminine because the translation would be feminine ("die private Nachricht").

Cheers!

Markus

[Luth]

Oh! Thank you for the explanation!! Have I ever told you how I hate the German 3 genders?? 

[Markus]

Nein, dieser? diese? dieses? Information ist neu für mich.

[Luth]

A joke where English and German are needed to be unterstood:

[Luth]

Ok, meine Lehrerin has laughed a lot with this joke, too. 

[Markus]

Kein Wunder, Luth, der ist richtig gut!

[Markus]

Oh allerböseste Königin,

hier ist noch eine Redewendung für Dich: "Jemanden / etwas in der Pfeife rauchen."

Über eine Person: "Den kannste in der Pfeife rauchen" - "Der kann nicht viel, den schlägst Du leicht" - "He's not capable of much, you'll defeat him easily"

Über eine Sache: "Das kannste in der Pfeife rauchen" - "Das kannst Du vergessen, das ist nicht wichtig, das hat nicht viel Wert" - "You can forget about that, that's not worth a lot"

Allerbeste Grüße

Markus

[Luth]

Gets the notebook and studies the new interesting vocabulary from Markus.

Thanks a lot! I will use it whenever I can!!! 




























































 

[Luth]

I signed up in My language exchange, and just yesterday I got in contact with, if everything goes fine, my first penpal in Deutsch. I'll be practising German, and he'll be practising Catalan (which he already writes a lot better than a lot of Catalans, after being here for a lot of time.) He's 54 and he also speaks Spanish, English and French, and he's started with Arabic a few time ago...

I think I feel a little learner, if I compare with him... 

[Markus]

Das klingt nach einem wirklich interssanten Brieffreund!

[Markus]

Dear Luth,

what's the opposite of the awakening of spring?


Falling asleep on the right in the evening!





Cheers!

Markus